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Fachhochschule des BFI Wien - 2005

Thema Basel II / Risikomanagement.Inzwischen wurden an der Fachhochschule bereits mehrere Forschungsprojektezum Themenkreis …

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Demographic trends in Sub-Saharan Africa

van de Walle, Etienne; Kekovole, John - 1986

The study of demographic trends in sub-Saharan Africa though crucial in the assessment of the impact of population size and growth on the overall socio-economic development in the region, has received the least attention due to lack of reliable data for most of the countries. This paper focuses...

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Modernization and the fertility transition, Egypt, 1975

Issa, Mahmoud S. Abdou - 1980

This study investigates regional marital fertility differentials in Egypt and their relationship to the level of … birth rate in Egypt, the long term fertility and mortality levels are discussed. The prospects of a fertility transition in … Egypt are assessed in terms of the current fertility level and pattern, the extent of deliberate fertility regulation, the …

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Price Transmission and Adjustment in the Ethiopian Coffee Market

Alemu, Zerihun Gudeta; Worako, Tadesse Kumma - 2009

This study focused on the interrelationships among producer, auction and world prices. In so doing, it criticized previous studies and extended technique developed by Hansen (1999) to handle inferential biases occurring as a result of specification errors. The following results were found:...

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Livestock Policy and Institutional Environment in Ethiopia: implications for fodder policy and adoption

Dessie, Messaye Taddele - 2009

African countries, the profile of livestock production in Ethiopia is well researched but there appears to be a detachment … literature reviews to evaluate Ethiopia’s livestock policy and how it could be improved to better serve the interests of poor … livestock keepers. In addition, it reviews the roles played by the Government of Ethiopia, national and international research …

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11.432J / 15.427J Real Estate Finance & Investments II: Macro-Level Analysis & Advanced Topics, Spring 2003

Geltner, David; Mcgrath, William Tod - 2003

The evolving organization and operation of real estate capital markets. Sources of real estate capital. Primary and secondary mortgage markets. The investment behavior of real estate assets. The development of REITs and securitized debt markets. Advanced pricing techniques for complex real...

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ESSAYS IN DYNAMIC CORPORATE FINANCE

Michaux, Michael - 2010

My dissertation aims at understanding the financing and investment decisions of firms. It contains two chapters.Chapter One studies the currency composition of debt for firms in emerging economies. Using a dataset of traded Mexican firms, I document two stylized facts about firms in the...

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Cash-Flow Risks, Financial Leverage and the Cross Section of Equity Returns

Maia, Marcelo V - 2010

What is the cross-sectional relationship between financial leverage and expected equity returns? How is the empirical relationship associated with firm's financial decisions? This dissertation investigates the potential explanations for the flatness relation between financial leverage and...

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Testing Theories of Capital Structure and Estimating the Speed of Adjustment

Huang, Rongbing; Ritter, Jay R - 2009

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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An Empirical Analysis of the Determinants of Project Finance: Cash Flow Volatility and Correlation

Alam, Zinat S - 2010

This paper investigates the effect of correlation and volatilities of firm and project cash flows on the choice of project finance. I use a pure-play approach to measure unobservable project cash flows for a sample of 440 US and non-US firms that invested in 577 projects from 1990 to 2008 and...

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