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Leverage Adjustment and Credit Risk
… risk.</p> <p><strong>Ⅰ:</strong> We standardize leverage ratio by underlying business risk. The methodology of standardization follows the assumption that asset value follows a geometric Brownian motion. We find that by standardizing book leverage ratio, standardized leverage ratio can be …
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How companies can leverage crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing is an increasingly popular phenomenon where companies solicit the help of the public in helping accomplish some of the activities commonly performed by employees or contractors. These activities can range from solving scientific problems that baffle the in-house experts to repetitive …
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Three Essays on Leverage and the Macroeconomy
… backdrop, an interesting question is whether leverage of financial institutions can play a role in business cycle analysis and forecasting the economy through the leverage‒asset price‒output relationship. In Essay 1 (Chapter 2), I investigate whether the relationship between leverage and real …
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Leverage of change : social housing in Tijuana, México
As a town that has heavy migration, Tijuana is in constant need of social housing for its lower income families. The demands of the population have created an overload on the government, and some third parties have begun addressing the housing issues. A study was carried out on two different types …
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The leverage changing consequences of convertible debt financing
… that this observation is not consistent with the leverage hypothesis nor with the new financing models of Myers and Majluf (1984) and Miller and Rock (1982). This study also documents negative returns to the stockholders of convertible debt issuing firms on the announcement date. However, Dann and …
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Determinants of corporate leverage adjustments: A cross-country analysis
… that firms are very likely to consider target leverage ratios when they issue new capital (Graham & Harvey, 2001). Albeit the dynamic trade-off theory predicts that firms have incentives to move toward target debt ratios by reducing any deviation from those targets (Frank & Goyal, 2009), due to …
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Identifying enterprise leverage points in Defense Acquisition Program performance
Large, complex systems development programs in the Department of Defense are finding it more difficult to deliver desired capabilities to the end user on time and on budget than ever before. Evidence exists that almost all developmental programs on record are over cost and schedule, costing the …
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An empirical investigation of the inter-relationships between systematic risk, financial leverage and operating leverage of industrial companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
… value debt to equity ratio (i.e. financial leverage). In turn, unlevered beta has been shown to be a positive function of a company's operating leverage, and the trade-off between operating and financial leverage proposed as a means of stabilising beta. The objective of this research was to …
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Debt leverage, company growth and job creation : South African manufacturing
… This research project studied the impact debt leverage has on a companyÕs ability to grow revenue and create jobs. Most recent literature focused on debt leverage and the increase in company investment but not extensively in company revenue growth. Furthermore, most literature was based on the …
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Maximizing leverage : explaining China's strategic force postures in limited wars
How do nuclear-armed states maximize strategic leverage to coerce their adversaries in limited wars? Although the existing literature has examined how states have used their nuclear weapons as sources of strategic leverage, it has not fully explored the challenges states face in using these …
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The national response system the need to leverage networks and knowledge
Hurricane Katrina highlighted serious deficiencies in America's national approach to emergency management of Incidents of National Significance (IoNS). Although Homeland Security Presidential Directive Five identifies a broad, unified effort to respond to domestic incidents, barriers to the …
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The Effect of Financial Leverage on Commercial Banks’ Profitability in Tanzania
… the relationship between the financial leverage and commercial bank’s profitability in Tanzania. It made use of secondary data from audited financial statements of listed commercial banks at Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange (DSE) since 2007 to 2013. Descriptive statistics was used as a tool …
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Leverage and Debt Maturity: The Implication of Size and Market Quotation
… delisting decision, particularly the effect of leverage using a sample of AIM companies. In the last chapter, I provide a summary of the main conclusions of the study and highlight some promising ideas for future research.
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Evolution of Corporate Leverage on the JSE from 1994 to 2016
… been made to examine the evolution of corporate leverage of companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) from 1994 to 2016. Analysis of the data set is organized around a sample of 126 listed companies across twelve sub-sector industries, namely, Banks, Financial Services, Life …
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Crossroads: Exploring how micro organizations that leverage design shape urbanism practice
… the role micro organizations (1-10 people) that leverage design play within the greater urbanism field. At large, this research serves to build synergies between creative practitioners within or adjacent to the urbanism field, while providing insights and resources both from a philosophical and …
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SOF TALENT PROFILES: HOW TO LEVERAGE PERFORMANCE DATA FOR QUALITATIVE TALENT MANAGEMENT
… amounts of data on their personnel that can be leveraged to address this problem. During assessment, selection, and follow-on training courses, organizations collect standardized psychological, academic, and performance data on each individual. This thesis proposes a “Talent Profile” that …
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