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Key Factors in the Future Development of the Construction Industry

Fox, Paul; Skitmore, Martin - 2002

This paper reports on a recent study aimed at identifying the key factors influencing the development of the construction industry. From a list of 62 variables identified in earlier studies, a questionnaire survey was conducted. This quantitative study elicited views from 76 respondents and...

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The role of fiscal policy in inertially inflated Argentina

Arce M., Daniel G. - 1992

of the social conflict theory of inflation and creates cyclical indices of fiscal stance for developing countries …In the second essay a game-theoretic model is presented which formalizes the role of deficits in the conflict theory of … theory of inflation. Estimates are made for a hybrid of the cyclically neutral budget which reflects a macroeconomic target …

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Essays on bankruptcy and the resolution of financial distress

Longhofer, Stanley D. - 1995

That a firm's initial equityholders often emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings with more value than the absolute priority rule (APR) would suggest is now a generally accepted fact. The form in which this value is distributed, however, is less well understood. In particular, why do the...

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Construction price formation : full-cost pricing or neoclassical microeconomic theory?

Skitmore, Martin; Runeson, Goran; Chang, Xinling - 2006

Neo-classical microeconomic theory has been suggested to offer (1) an appropriate analytical tool for construction … microeconomic theory provides a useful means of analysis, it offers little for the practice of pricing, which is much more closely …

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Three essays on trading information

Chung, Heesoo - 1992

In this thesis, I have examined the models of dynamic competitive behavior on trading information. This information can be seen as a cost reducing manufacturing technique of output. Assume that the value of information is nonincreasing in the number of information holders. For the analysis, two...

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Three essays in microeconomics of public enterprises under asymmetric information and uncertainty

Acharya, Arnab Kumar - 1989

In Chapter 1, we present a model describing the control of a single public enterprise in a less developed country environment, through the imposition of an allocation scheme--consisting of an output target at a particular unit cost--by a central planner. We assume information asymmetry with a...

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