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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"market values"”.
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Commercial real estate volatility : a decomposition of historical market values
… in the study of investment. Risk in private market commercial real estate, however, has been historically less well understood than other more liquid asset classes. To date, most of the research on risk in real estate investment has focused on how changes, cycles, or shocks in the underlying …
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Market Values in Education: A Case Study of its Effect on the Principal's Model for School Governance in Alberta
… to a philosophy that imposes large scale market forces such as parental choice and school competition onto educational systems in order to coerce school improvement. This shift may be prompting school-based administrators to shift school governance practices to reflect these market values. …
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HML, SMB, and GDP: Do Fama and French Factors Contain Information for Future Domestic Product in the United States?
… zero investment strategies selected by book-to-market values and market capitalization exhibit correlations to future real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in the United States. Using the factor returns from 1993 to 2012 contrasting against future GDP growth from 1994 to 2013, the outcome of …
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The Spillover Effect of Proximity to LEED-Energy Star Certified Office Buildings On Neighborhood Market Value
… Star certified office buildings on the property values of other buildings in their neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City from an economic standpoint. The spatial analysis approach using the Geographic Information System and the statistical analysis approach based on the Hedonic Price Model and …
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Windfalls for Wilderness: Land Protection and Land Value in the Green Mountains
… between proximity to protected wilderness and market values for residential properties. The applications of this result include improved consideration of the positive economic impacts of land conservation in political deliberations over public land management and new mechanisms for financing …
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The relative value relevance of cash flow accounting disclosures by South African Banks
… figure in relation to the impact it has on the market values of a given stock. Much of the focus of this research, both internationally and locally, has been based on earnings or balance sheet disclosures with little attention being paid to other sections of disclosure. This study takes the use …
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SOCIAL VALUES FOR ATTRIBUTES AT RISK FROM WILDFIRE IN NORTHWEST MONTANA
… interface (WUI) at the expense of other market and non-market attributes. Due to increasing development within the WUI, climate change, and excessive fuel loading from decades of successful fire suppression, it is likely that fire suppression costs will continue to rise if current …
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SOCIAL VALUES FOR ATTRIBUTES AT RISK FROM WILDFIRE IN NORTHWEST MONTANA
… interface (WUI) at the expense of other market and non-market attributes. Due to increasing development within the WUI, climate change, and excessive fuel loading from decades of successful fire suppression, it is likely that fire suppression costs will continue to rise if current …
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Empirical tests of the clean surplus valuation model : Canadian evidence
… successfully constructed based on the intrinsic values suggested by the model. It is evident that under-priced portfolios identified by the model consistently yield higher returns than other portfolios for all different holding periods. This research proves that the clean surplus valuation model …
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Unpacking dominant discourses in higher education language policy
… reveal that discourse strands of economy/market, inclusion and success operate, often entangled with each other in discursive knots, in construing what and how languages are valued, and what kind of language competences academics and students need. An overall finding suggests that economic …
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Irma Stern (1894-1966) : the creation of an artist's reputation in her lifetime and posthumously, 1920-2013
… popular press and on-going recognition in the market place. Through an evaluation of press clippings, literature, archival material (photographs, the minutes of meetings and letters) and market results, this study questions how Stern has come to assume such a privileged position, why she is of …
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Market value estimation models for marine surface vessels with the use of multiple regression analysis.
… of vessels in order to estimate their fair market values. Data for this research were collected from the U.S. Maritime Administration, the U.S. Coast Guard, and numerous oil and steel companies. Mathematical models were developed for merchant ships, tugs, fishing vessels, petroleum-carrying …
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Managerial ability and the valuation of executive stock options
… generally value stock options at less than market value because of suboptimal ownership and risk aversion. Implicit in this finding is the assumption that executives are, like shareholders, price takers. That is, they have no ability to influence the outcomes of the firm’s investments. …
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Non-market valuation of urban ecosystem services in Penang, Malaysia
This thesis explores the non-market values of ecosystem services in Penang's urban green spaces, addressing threats posed by urbanization. Utilizing non-market valuation techniques, this study aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the contributions of urban green spaces to the local …
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Occupational change : automation and reskilling risks
… and Data Skills have particularly high implied market values, as do Social Skills and Creativity. These therefore represent lucrative (re-)skill investment opportunities for workers, unlike writing and non-cognitive skills. Finally, there is significant heterogeneity in industry fixed effects …
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Municipal strategies for affordable housing : incenting an exacting public goods from private developers
… tools that are able to leverage hot real estate markets, such as inclusionary zoning, linkages, and tax abatements. A framework for understanding the constraints and opportunities of past and future policies is established by looking at the economic, legal, and political implications of these …
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How do I remain caring?: a reflective inquiry by an initial teacher educator in Irish higher education
… higher education (HE) in Ireland, in an era when market values, performativity, and accountability structures in the system (Ball 2016, 2012; Lynch et al. 2012) also co-occur under neoliberalism (Lolich 2011). Accordingly, this places a series of pressures or contradictions on educators who strive …
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Real options theory and the pricing of residential land-use rights in Shanghai
… 1990's. The resulting growth in the housing market fueled the country's transformation towards a market economy. However, the transition has not been without problems. One of the main issues the government has been grappling with is the dispute between developers and residents over low rates …
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Using subsidized put options to replace the federal price and income support programs for corn
… the 1982 - 1989 crops of corn and compares those values to actual program costs. The results suggest the possibility that program costs are higher than they need be because government price and income guarantees are provided at a cost in excess of the fair market values of the current program's …
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Player valuation in thin markets: the case of European Association football
… participate in the set-up of this labour market. Thanks to the availability of market value, wage, and transfer fee data for the most valued production workers (players) and bolstered by the emergence of data analytics firms to crunch large amounts of performance data in real time, it is …
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