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Showing 1 to 20 of 211 for “"rate of return"”.
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Risk adjusted rate of return: Directional distance function approach
In this dissertation, the risk adjusted rate of return (RAROR) that utilizes the directional distance function (DDF) approaches is developed to integrate conventional RAROR in a consistent manner. The sensitivity and the probabilistic analysis for DDF-RAROR are also illustrated. The DDF-RAROR is …
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Smoothing of Pension Costs, Choice of Expected Rate of Return and Capital Market Consequences
… essay, I examine whether or not investors incorporate the actual pension expense based on the marked-to-market principle in firm valuation. Alternatively investors may be fixated on the smoothed pension expense as reported on income statement according to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles …
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Field engineering applications of equipment replacement analysis by incremental discounted cash flow rate of return
Includes bibliographical references.
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Productivity of the Regional Bell Operating Companies Under Rate-of-Return and Price-Cap Regulation
… Commission began regulating the tariffed rates of the nation's largest local exchange carriers under a new regulatory scheme: price-cap regulation. Price caps were intended to "remedy" the ills of traditional rate-of-return regulation. They were to provide incentive for the telephone …
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A Proposed Model to Simulate Internal Rate of Return and Risk Characteristics of Investments in Multi-Family Rental Housing
… in DSpace on 2014-12-11T23:19:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7219910.pdf: 9009012 bytes, checksum: 46d3f938847cae66715753b458b4f190 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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Using Human Capital Theory to Develop a Policy Approach Towards College Student Migration in Illinois
The purpose of this study was to use human capital theory to develop a policy approach towards college student migration in Illinois. A rate of return analysis revealed the social rate of return for college student migrants who return to Illinois and the private rate of return was 15.95%. It was …
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A long-run timber output projection model for the nonindustrial private forest sector
… private forest sector controls 58 percent of the nation’s commercial forest area. Timber output from the NIPF has been a major forest policy issue throughout this century. A long-run regional timber output projection model was developed for the NIPF sector. The model was based upon two key …
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Determinants of earnings in Eritea : a first attempt to estimate the Mincerian earnings function
… because it avoids selectivity bias. The list of potential determinants of earnings is broadened to include education, potential experience, occupation, gender, the pre-independence history of workers and region. On average, the rate of return to education increases with increased years of …
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Techno-economic analysis of jet fuel production from waste vegetable oil in Mexico
This thesis quantifies the economic feasibility of building and operating a biorefinery that converts waste vegetable oils into transportation fuels in Mexico. The hydroprocessing technology selected produces predominately diesel and jet fuel that can be used and blended with the existing fossil …
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A Comparison of Accounting and Internal Rates of Return for the Firm in A Dynamic Setting
This study is an exploration of the relationship between Accounting Rate of Return (ARR) and a Weighted-average Internal Rate of Return (WIRR) in a discrete flow model of the firm in some simple dynamic situations. The model parameters are the IRRs, durations, and cash flow profiles of the capital …
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Integrating efficient investment in human resources and manpower planning in Indonesia
The objectives of this research project were to seek economic theory under which the rate of return and manpower requirement approach are logically consistent with one another and to use this to interpret and explain the empirical results in Indonesia. The rate of return analysis was conducted …
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Human capital, economic growth, and income distribution: Three essays on human capital
… 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. Investment in human capital in terms of college enrollment rates is positively related to family income, rate of return to …
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Assessing Stigma Toward Depression and Schizophrenia in Rural Areas
… methods for assessing stigmatization are often susceptible to the social desirability bias, or the methods neglect to examine stigmatization towards specific types of mental illness. Thus, the aims of the current study were to assess the current prevalence of stigma toward those with …
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Empirical Studies of Human Capital Formation: The Role of Family, Sibling, and Neighborhood
The formation of human capital is the main issue in this dissertation. More specifically, this dissertation discusses two alternative types of transferring human capital, in contrast to the transfer of human capital from parents to their children's education. These two types of transfer are sibling …
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Interest Rates and Cyclical Underwriting Profits in the Property-Liability Insurance Industry: An Equilibrium Approach
Underwriting profits in the property-liability insurance industry have been cyclical for many decades. The insurance industry refers to this behavior as the underwriting profit cycle. This study explains the cycle within the framework of both the insurance and capital markets, using an equilibrium …
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An econometric analysis of the impact of price level changes and commision procedure on the earnings of regulated electric and gas utilities
This study centered on the effect of price level changes and commission regulatory procedure on three separate measures of the earnings of regulated electric and gas utilities serving intrastate markets in the period 1961-1973. Specifically, three main questions were addressed: (1) what is the …
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