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Showing 1 to 20 of 2187 for “"investments"”.
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Empirical analyses on international investments
… fact that investors do not diversify their investments well enough to reap the benefits of international diversification. Hence, it empirically examines and provides new insights into three different aspects related to suboptimal international investments: determinants of suboptimal foreign …
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Option valuation of flexible investments : the case of environmental investments in the electric power industry
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, 1992.
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Real options valuation for petroleum investments
In many instances, oil companies struggle with decisions on petroleum investment. The difficulty partially stems from uncertainties in many of the inherent variables. Conventional investment methods often fail to properly identify available opportunities. Real Options Valuation involves a …
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Essays in corporate finance and investments
… both the level and the risk attributions of investments and financing sources. The first chapter links financing frictions on the liability side to investment risk on the asset side. It studies the effect of financial constraints on equity holders' risk-shifting incentives within a real …
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The Political Economy of Alternative Investments
The growing concern surrounding modern political economy is especially evident as political uncertainty increasingly proves to be a critical factor in the global economy. Research on political uncertainty offers profound insights into organizational and human behavior, holding significant …
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Performing Actionable Evaluations of Sustainability Investments
Businesses are rapidly pursuing investments in sustainable technologies to meet their climate goals, but performing actionable evaluations of technologies is difficult, especially in decentralized businesses. Actionable evaluations have high accuracy, high precision, and address uncertainty. …
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Brazilian pension funds : real estate investments
… thesis also describes the prospects of future investments in the sector once that both pension funds and the real estate industry are experiencing great transformation in that country. Since their regulation in the late 1970s, pension funds have been responsible for the largest share of real …
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Identifying successful corporate venture capital investments
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1991.
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Valuation of investments in manufacturing technology
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1994, and Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, 1994.
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Objective assessment of manufacturing technology investments
Amgen is a biotechnology company with manufacturing plants throughout the world. New manufacturing technologies are constantly being developed and implemented in order to address cost, quality, regulation, and competitive forces. However, deciding on the technologies to implement is difficult …
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A computerized analysis of silo investments
A computer program named Silo Investment Analysis (SILAN) was developed to assist dairymen with selection of silage structures. SILAN consists of a core program which can be supplemented with options to include borrowed money, income tax benefits, inflation, companion equipment, and an evaluation …
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ESSAYS ON HOUSING INVESTMENTS IN EMERGING MARKETS
New residential construction is significantly more procyclical in emerging markets than in developed countries, although the correlation between aggregate investment and output is similar across emerging and developed countries. This paper shows that a multi-sector stochastic growth model with a …
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The Halal-Based Equity Investments in Kuwait
Most of the prior research in the area of Islamic Investments has looked at performance; little attention has been given to the relationship between screening criteria and performance, especially in the GCC region. Therefore, this thesis examines the impact of using different screening criteria on …
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Three Chapters on Investments and Financial Institutions
<p>Only the stock selection (“alpha”) decisions of fund managers who trade on firm-specific information should have predictive return content. Faced with the same information, skilled fund managers make similar stock selection decisions. In Chapter one, we introduce a new measure - stock investment …
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Determinants of private investments in South Africa
… in the examination of the pattern of private investments and additionally, the impacts of interest rate and macroeconomic uncertainty on private investment in SA. The study employs an ARDL model for co-integration to explore the presence of a long-run relationship between the variables and the …
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A Quantitative Analysis of Women’s Health Investments
Investments in women’s health remain significantly underrepresented despite mounting evidence of their societal and economic value. This thesis presents a data-driven framework for evaluating and quantifying the financial performance of publicly traded companies focused on women’s healthcare. The …
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IT investments and firm performance across economies
… has shown a positive relationship between IT investments and firm performance. But the results vary across firms and performance measures. Evidence indicates that IT resource allocations, in the form of investment in specific IT asset classes and IT capabilities of the firm, may play an …
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