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We study the effect of government assistance on bank risk taking. Using hand-collected data on bank applications for … government investment funds, we investigate the effect of both application approvals and denials. To distinguish banks? risk … banks approve riskier loans and shift investment portfolios toward riskier securities. However, this shift in risk occurs …
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This dissertation extends previous research on bubbles by investigating whether changes in the financial asset prices of the S&P500 reflect changes in fundamentals. We propose that if this is not the case the volatility is due to a bubble. Hence, this is the general hypothesis from which several...
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This paper examines time-series patterns of external financing decisions and shows that publicly traded U.S, firms fund a much larger proportion of their financing deficit with external equity when the cost of equity capital is low. The historical values of the cost of equity capital have...
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, portfolio or firm level decisions and investment management considerations. (More fundamental "micro" level analysis, pertaining …, investment management, and international real estate investing (not all subjects covered every semester). Students can take 11 …
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"This paper investigates the relationship between certain accounting measures that purport to reflect a firm's risk and … two market-based measures of risk. The firms examined are commercial banks and bank holding companies. Some commonly used … ratios to indicate risk in banking are capital to total assets, loans to deposits, liquid assets to total assets, and loan …
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environmental restoration projects between FY02 through FY10 to the Oak Ridge Environmental Management Waste Management Facility … that risk-based performance standards are met. Trade-offs in schedule, volumes of waste lots, and allowable concentrations … of contaminants are performed to optimize project waste disposition, regulatory compliance, and disposal cell management. …
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oversees TRU waste management from generation to disposal. The WIPP began receiving waste in March 1999. In some areas of broad … and by participation in international waste management organizations and topical meetings. In recognition of the successes … agreed to exchange scientific information with eight foreign radioactive waste management organizations, and three more …
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information and management support tools. Technical tools include performance and risk assessment models, information management …To help integrate activities in the environmental restoration and waste management mission of the Hanford Site, the … systems, data and the computer infrastructure to supports models, data, and information management systems. Management …
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radiation protection programs, a job-specific ALARA instructional package, and a Risk-Based Philosophy program matched to …
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, specifically terrorist intrusion activities that affect of Environmental Management (EM) programs. The framework is called the … trade-offs between resources, technologies, risk, and Research and Development (R&D) efforts to mitigate such intrusion … risk associated with a compromise of EM assets. The innovative utility of SERAD-FACS is illustrated for three integrated …
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