producers' capital investment. This model consists of two major submodels: the exploration and development of a geothermal … calculated rate of return on the capital investment earned by the geothermal producer. The results of the sensitivity analysis of … temperature geothermal resources. GIRORA-Electric is a discounted cash flow investment model which evaluates the rate of return on …

Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply …, labor demand, and human capital. Topics discussed also include wage and employment determination, turnover, search …

cost function with capital, labor, and sawlog inputs. Analyses were performed with a panel data set of biennial … capital and labor were most easily substituted inputs. Own-price elasticity at the regional level showed that capital demand … changes in capital and labor price, suggesting that producers had little flexibility to reduce total costs by substituting …

protection, we should not necessarily expect small firms´ investment to be more sensitive to monetary contractions or negative … aggregate shocks. A simple model of investment with credit constraints shows that for this pattern to occur we need a high … credit conditions, small firms from countries with high creditor protection contract their investment rate more than large …

capital input via relative investment goods prices, taking into account the flow of capital input per unit of capital stock in …This article provides a farm sector comparison of levels of capital input for fourteen OECD countries for the period … 1973 to 2002. The starting point for construction of a measure of capital input is the measurement of capital stock …

relationship between investments in technology capital and productivity. To measure agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) we … employ a Solow-type growth accounting method to decompose output growth into input and TFP growth. For technology capital we … countries. We then correlate technology capital levels with long-term growth rates in agricultural TFP. Our findings show that …

The purpose of this work is to empirically assess the validity of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) in terms of … how can it model an equity’s return. The goal of this work is not to challenge the theory behind CAPM, nor compare it to …

Theory and evidence on government taxation policy. Topics include tax incidence; optimal tax theory; the effect of … taxation. It covers both theoretical contributions, such as the theory of optimal income and commodity taxation, as well as …

studied. The approach of portfolio theory or the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) is used. The major features of the CAPM is … particular, applications to the capitalization variant of the utility investment strategy and the financing variant are …