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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to exhibit the impacts of lease duration and lease break options on the optimal holding period for a real estate asset or portfolio Methodology / approach We use a Monte Carlo simulation framework to simulate a real estate assets cash-flows in which lease...
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In this paper, we study the determinants of rental values in urban housing markets in Kigali, Rwanda. In particular, we study the value of access to piped water; due to the high costs associated with installing new piped connections, renting a property with an existing connection is often the...
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We simulate a closed rental housing market with search and matching frictions, in which both landlord and tenant agents are imperfectly informed. Homogeneous landlords set rents to maximise revenue, using information on the market to estimate the relationship between posted rent and...
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In this paper we examine the applicability of arbitrage theory to real estate. Arbitrage theory has been applied to the valuation of mortgages using partial differential equations, however the implicit assumptions made are problematic when applied to real estate. The latter is a very complex...
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, gas, and renewable power plants). It finds that optimal investment in renewable energy may start before coal power has … been phased out and even before investment in gas has started, because doing so allows for smoothing investment over time … and reduces adjustment costs. Gas plants may be used to reduce short-term investment in renewable power and associated …
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represented by the decrease in entropy of his beliefs, regardless of his preferences, initial wealth, or investment problem. We …
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sector to study the impact of investment subsidies on equilibrium investment and output. Energy and capital are assumed to be … structures are considered for the energy market, free entry and natural monopoly. First, it is shown that investment subsidies … may induce a larger equilibrium investment into cleaner technologies either under free entry or natural monopoly. However …
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contractual relationships that link exports from Sub-Saharan Africa to China and investment by Chinese firms in Sub-Saharan Africa … combine trade, aid and investment, which may create 'lock-in' effects. China's trade and investment focus on the commodities …, especially in oil-exporting countries. Chinese investment, however, increasingly involves other sectors, such as the …
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adjustment costs on investment. …
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Complicated neoclassical models predict that if investment is sensitive to current financial performance, this is a …, refers to the principle of "growth of the fitter" to explain investment-cash flow sensitivities as the workings of a healthy …
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