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Income Smoothing and the Investment Decision: A Laboratory Experiment
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Evaluating risk-adjusted discount rates in forest investment decision making
One approach to risk in investment evaluation is to discount expected cash flows with a single risk-adjusted discount rate. When emphasis is placed on total (as opposed to systematic) risk there are no a priori criteria guiding the proper selection of' the risk-adjusted discount rate. It is …
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Modelling the impact of oil price volatility on investment decision-making
… challenges facing energy companies is making investment decision-making associated with the prices of crude oils. Since 1973, crude oil price behaviour has become more volatile, which suggested that different forces were driving crude oil prices. One of the main factors in generating the …
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Factors influencing investment decision-making before and after an informative Emotional Intelligence Intervention
… to the various biases which influence human decision-making. A growing body of knowledge on the understanding of decision-making in an investment setting has been established over the last 30 or so years. The objective of this study is to understand the factors influencing investment …
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Essays on Migration, Remittance and Households Consumption, Production and Investment Decision: Evidence from Bangladesh
… The household as a whole takes migration decisions to maximize expected utility. Risk-averse household allocates its members to rural agricultural, urban formal or urban informal sectors to maximize the expected utility of the household. The rural agricultural and the urban informal sector …
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A strategic investment decision model for line-haul operations on a developing country railway
… a railway is being upgraded, several alternative investment proposals may be considered. This thesis describes the development and use of a computerised model to investigate the combined effects of such investments for a less developed country railway. The work focuses on the Botswana line as a …
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The use of effectuation in venture capitalist early-stage investment decision making in China.
… venture capitalists in China make early-stage investment decisions under uncertainty. Within this context, it examines why early-stage venture capitalists use effectuation (involving emergent strategy) in contrast to prediction (concerned with planned strategy) and how the experts and novices …
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Market research--the changing needs for real estate investment decision-making in the 1990's
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1991.
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Value of more sophistication : capital investment decision-making with competitive dynamics in the mining industry
… markets, one of the central business planning decisions faced by firms is where, when, and by how much to expand their production capacity. Appropriate investment planning methodology is important to both the mining industry and the wider economy. Currently, new mine investment decisions are …
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The development of visualized risk-informed tradespace exploration (vRITE) for R&D investment decision-making
… lead to more reliable and valuable systems. If decision-makers believe the risks are too high, they may not invest in a technology that would provide the capabilities they need. Alternatively, if they underestimate the risks of a technology, investment may lead to costly and embarrassing …
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The influence of ESG on investment decision making in the investment management and capital markets sector
… Social, and Governance (ESG) factors on investment decision-making processes within the South African investment management and capital markets sector. As global awareness of sustainability and social responsibility continues to rise, understanding how ESG considerations are integrated …
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The importance of certain tax incentives in business investment decision making: the views of business decision makers
… were surveyed for their viewed importance of the investment tax credit and the accelerated cost recovery system on their decision making for new equipment. The executives were divided into groups based upon the reported amount of expected future unused capacity of their firms. The statistical …
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South African asset manager perceptions on the integration of climate change risks into equity investment decision-making processes
… issues such as climate change and its impact on investment portfolios becoming part of the asset management industry discourse. However, the degree to which these issues are perceived by asset managers to be significant has not been expanded upon extensively in literature. This study was …
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Understanding Information Technology Investment Decision-Making in the Context of Hotel Global Distribution Systems: a Multiple-Case Study
… do in practice when evaluating and making IT investment decisions. This study was launched in an attempt to 1) learn more about how multinational hospitality companies evaluate, prioritize, and select IT investments in the context of hotel GDS; 2) call attention to an important and costly …
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Effects of uncertainty on the investment decision : an examination of the option-based investment model using Japanese real estate data
… paper examines the validity of the option-based investment model as opposed to the neoclassical investment model in the decision-making of commercial real estate development, using aggregate real estate data from Japan. I particularly focus on the effect of uncertainty because it is the central …
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A comparative study of the South African venture capital and private equity industry with special reference to the investment decision-making process
… This study sets out to shed light on the decision-making process applied by South African venture capitalists when they allocate capital. Venture capital is defined in this study as including private equity. The study comprises an extensive survey by way of a detailed questionnaire which …
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The impact of dependencies and interactions using systems approach on investment decision making in an environment of uncertain outcomes / Mansoor Hamood Al-Harthy.
Includes author's previously published papers.
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Technological change in the salmon farming industry in Chile : using investment decision tools to model an innovation path and a framework for developing a new technology
… I modeled the salmon industry in Chile using investment decision tools to determine the best innovation path. I also analyzed new technology that could be used to define a framework for development. The innovation path was identified by modeling a production company and applying sensitivity …
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Probablistic risk analysis of financial investment decisions. A probabilistic analysis of the financial performance of'selected Colombian companies and banks for the period 1973-1977 with application to the investment decision process.
… risk and reducing uncertainty inherent in the investment decision making process. It is proposed that the two most important profitability financial ratios in relation to investment decisions are the return on equity and the return on assets respectively. In order to exploit their use as …
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