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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"physical capital"”.
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Rescaling Capital: The Potential of Small-Scale and Mass-Produced Physical Capital in the Energy and Materials Processing Industries
Observing the evolution of size of physical capital in fundamental infrastructure and processing industries such as energy, mining, and chemical processing, etc, over the last century suggests the prevalence of an unambiguous mantra -- "bigger-is-better." This dissertation questions some of the …
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Sporting mega-events and their influence on the social and physical capital of communities in the host city: The Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games experience
… mega-events impact the host’s economic, social, physical, human, and cultural capital. This thesis addresses a gap within these interconnected fields by examining the associations between how a set of institutions are used to govern a mega-event, and how it impacted the physical capital (PC) and …
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Income Inequality, Human Capital and Economic Growth in China
… and growth, and the influences of human and physical capital, to examine the theoretical mechanisms underlying the inequality-growth relationship. The findings from these studies can offer valuable insights for the policy makers in China. Using the latest data, the first study in the thesis …
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The relationship between VAIC™, firm performance and firm value of companies: a cross-country analysis
… to examine the relationship between intellectual capital (IC), firm performance and firm value in South Africa, Brazil and Indonesia. Design/Methodology/Approach – The study applied the difference generalised method of moments (DGMM) estimator to investigate the relationship between 787 listed …
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Textile and Apparel Exports of India and South Korea: An Econometric Analysis
… The independent variables were net value of physical-capital stock, technological capital, two different levels of human capital, unit labor cost in textiles and in apparel, per-capita domestic apparel production, and domestic cotton production. The study extends that by Zhang and Dardis …
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Measuring The Capabilities Infrastructure: A County-Level Index Of Nonprofit And Private Sector Organizational And Physical Community Capital
… little is known about the organization of the physical and organizational resource infrastructure of these communities, limiting the ability of policymakers, researchers, and citizens to address uneven development, inequality, and poverty. Drawing on 2015 North American Industry Classification …
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Three Essays on Financial and Trade Integration
… to the convergence in marginal products of capital, the third essay accesses the effect of international trade in physical capital on economic growth.;The first essay addresses the empirical question of whether international financial flows are responsive to capital account restrictions or …
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Financial development and economic growth: evidence from Lesotho, 1981 - 2022
… productivity growth and the accumulation of physical capital. The results present a convincing narrative, revealing that the log of ratio of liquid liabilities to GDP has a negative impact on Lesotho's growth while having no significant effect on either total factor productivity growth or …
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Schooling quality and economic growth / by Frank Neri.
… growth rates in regressions which control for physical capital investment rates, population growth rates and secondary school enrolment rates. Education levels of parents, hours of homework and the non-teaching duties of teachers were also significant determinants.
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The Invisible People of the Invisible Coast: The Resilience of People Experiencing Homelessness to Disasters on the Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi Gulf Coasts
… and modeling was used to analyze social and physical capital of homeless populations residing in the coastal counties of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, and their resilience to disasters. Social networks were analyzed through a gravity model and physical networks were analyzed through …
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Human capital, economic growth, and income distribution: Three essays on human capital
… with how and why an individual invests in human capital and how tax policy affects investment in human capital. We examine optimal investment in human capital and the effect of tax policy on human capital formation, and test several hypotheses derived from the theory using U.S. time-series data. …
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The Role of *Education in Economic Transition and Political Transformation in Post -Communist Countries
… determinant of economic growth and investment in physical capital is performed. This analysis detects positive impact of investment in secondary education on economic growth after applying appropriate lags to the variables and controlling for the initial level of per capita income. Foreign direct …
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Longitudinal study of the relationship between board attributes and firm performance in South Africa
… total resources, and its two major components, physical capital (PC) and intellectual capital (IC).
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Human Resource Development and Africa's Economic Growth: Perspectives for Policy Planning in Kenya
… perspective on the relationship between human capital and economic growth is explored on the case of economic priorities and education in Kenya. Areas of policy concern are discussed, ranging from demand, supply, relevance, and efficiency of human capital formation through schooling. …
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Two Essays on Competition, Corporate Investments, and Corporate Earnings
… and firm policies regarding investment in physical capital, innovation, equity offerings, and repurchases. The first essay in my dissertation examines how product market competition affects firms' investment decisions. While competition among firms benefits consumers via lower prices, …
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A valuation process for intellectual property in a technology park environment
… development of the global economy, intellectual capital has become a critical driver of a business's sustainability. The essential difference between companies operating in the 'old' and the 'new' economy is that, where value in the past was created within industrial sectors such as …
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Convergence, productivity and industrial growth in China during the reform era
… over the period 1979-2004. The share of physical capital in China’s output was found to be 0.23 and the provinces were found to converge at a rate of 5.6 per cent per annum. To calculate the growth of TFP for China’s 29 provinces in this period, the non-parametric Malmquist index approach …
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Optimal intertemporal decisions in imperfect capital markets
… facing credit constraints, due to imperfect capital markets. However, as in these markets, saving and investment decision may not be separable, we obtain the optimal dynamic path of these decisions for agents that own capital but do not have any access to credit and extend the analysis when …
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Essays on dynamic agency, inequality and optimal taxation
… The first chapter focuses on the role of human capital and the second on physical capital. In each case I assume business ownership is subject to a dynamic agency problem, with the utility of each firm owner and the output of their firm depending upon actions observable only to themselves. To …
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Factor substitution in the Irish manufacturing sector.
… demand for skilled labour, unskilled labour and capital in the Irish manufacturing sector for the years 1979 to 2005. An understanding of the magnitude of these elasticites can play an important role in developing approrpariate policies for promoting growth and employment in the economy. The …
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