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Substituting Corporate Saving for Personal Saving: An Explanation for Falling Personal Saving Rates

Barney, L. Dwayne; Schooley, Diane K.; White, Harry - 2009

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test the hypothesis that savers may be substituting equity capital gains from stockholdings for traditional measures of personal saving. The analysis also aims to investigate dividend yield (DY) as a signal to investors about corporate saving rates...

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14.54 International Trade, Fall 2005

Lorenzoni, Guido - 2005

.e. international trade, and what determines the flow of savings and investments from one country to another, i.e. international finance …

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The Bombay stock exchange: seasonalities and investment opportunities

Ignatius, Roger - 1992

This paper examines the relationship of stock return patterns on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) with those of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). It also examines investment opportunities for international investors. The data include daily closing values of the BSE and SSP 500 Indexes for the...

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The decision to invest and the investment level: An application to Dutch glasshouse horticulture firms

Oskam, Arie J.; Goncharova, Natalia V.; Verstegen, Jos … - 2009

takeinto account the different nature of both decisions. ‘Nearly zero’ investments are consideredto be small replacement or … maintenance investments and treated as ‘zero’ investments.The applied two-step Heckman model shows that the decision to invest is …

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EX-ANTE EVALUATION OF AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL SCHEMES: COMBINING ELEMENTS OF PRIVATE AND PUBLIC DECISION MAKING

Bartolini, Fabio; Gallerani, Vittorio; Viaggi, Davide - 2008

The objective of this paper is to set a complete ex-ante evaluation to support Decision Makers in designingmore efficient and effective agri-environmental contracts, through an integrated modelling of elements ofprivate and public decision making. Ex-ante comparison of policy design options in...

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Investments in energy technological change under uncertainty

Shittu, Ekundayo - 2009

This dissertation addresses the crucial problem of how environmental policy uncertainty influences investments in … regulation that will encourage technology investments. However, decision makers are facing uncertainties surrounding future … by considering the impact of uncertainty in the carbon tax on investments in a portfolio of technologies. We determine …

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Employing the NPV-consistent IRR methods for PFI projects

Chiang, Yat Hung; Cheng, Eddie WL; Lam, Patrick TI - 2010

The internal rate of return (IRR) is a common financial indicator for private finance initiative (PFI) projects. Due to the long and complicated cash flow nature of PFI projects, more plausible IRR techniques are necessary for appropriate project evaluation and ranking. However, not all the...

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Cross-Function and Same-Function Alliances: How Does Alliance Structure Affect the Behavior of Partnering Firms?

Amaldoss, Wilfred; Staelin, Richard - 2010

addition, an increase in interalliance competition decreases investments in the focal alliance but increases investment in the …

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HMP 607 - Corporate Finance for Health Care Administrators, Fall 2008

Wheeler, Jack - 2008

HMP 607 is the third in a three-course sequence intended to impart to generalist administrators the knowledge of finance and accounting necessary to manage health care organizations. The first course, HMP 608, covers financial accounting. The second course, HMP 606, focuses on managerial...

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Putting the pieces in place for Japan's economic recovery

Ozawa, Terutomo - 2001

Just over a decade ago, the phenomenal economic growth of Japan was admired and even feared. It had pursued a successful strategy of industry upgrading to catch up with the West, maximizing bank-based, state-directed financing. Ironically, the very institutional setup that was required for...

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