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Research and development towards green technologies under technical and policy uncertainty

Valeria Jana Schwanitz - 2010

Green technological progress bears a strong potential to alleviate climate change, but its utilization is contingent on factors which are by nature impossible to anticipate or predict. Developing stochastic optimisation models, we explore how the decision to invest in research and development...

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First Motors Corporation: A Classroom Case on Impairments

Krumwiede, Tim; Giannini, Emily - 2008

This case requires a detailed analysis of impairments of both long-lived assets and goodwill for First Motors …

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Easing the natural gas crisis: Reducing natural gas prices through increased deployment of renewable energy and energy efficiency

Wiser, Ryan; Bolinger, Mark; St. Clair, Matt - 2008

growing number of voices are calling for increased diversification of energy supplies. Proponents of renewable energy and …

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Restoring Equilibrium to Natural Gas Markets: Can Renewable Energy Help?

Wiser, Ryan; Bolinger, Mark - 2009

growing number of voices are calling for increased diversification of energy supplies. Proponents of renewable energy …

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Workforce diversity in a research and development environment -- a model that works

McDavid, S. - 2008

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Engineering Directorate is in the third year of a diversity process that has changed the culture of the organization in many ways. This work outlines progress toward realizing the LLNL Engineering Diversity Model. Currently recommendations are...

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The domestic natural gas and oil initiative. Energy leadership in the world economy

2008

Two key overarching goals of this Initiative are enhancing the efficiency and competitiveness of U.S. industry and reducing the trends toward higher imports. These goals take into account new Federal policies that reflect economic needs, including economic growth, deficit reduction, job creation...

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Bank risk and return: The impact of bank non-interest income

Williams, Barry; Prather, Laurie - 2010

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider the impact on bank risk of portfolio diversification between … performance variables, this analysis compares the benefits of diversification across different bank types relative to margin … documents that fee-based income is riskier than margin income but offers diversification benefits to bank shareholders. While …

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Scope for Credit Risk Diversification

Hanson, Samuel; Pesaran, M Hashem; Schuermann, Til - 2005

-tailed correlated loss distributions arising from Gaussian risk factors and explore the potential for risk diversification. Where …

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Integration von Finanzdienstleistungen zur Allfinanz - Analyse der Hintergründe und Erfolgsfaktoren von Allfinanzkonzepten unter Einbeziehung von fünf Fallstudien"

Hashagen, Anne - 2006

After the dawn of the bancassurance concept in the 1980`s, the recent merger and aquisition wave has demonstrated that partnerships between banks and insurance houses are back in fashion. The purpose of the first part of the thesis is to illustrate the main drivers behind this renaissance, the...

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International Diversification with American Depository Receipts (ADRs);

Kabir, M. Humayun; Hassan, M. Kabir; Maroney, Neal C. - 2005

It is already well known that U.S. investors can achieve higher gains by investing directly in emergingmarkets (De Santis, 1997). Given the opportunity to invest directly in the shares of stocks in the developed(DCs) and emerging (EM) markets, it is interesting to know whether the U.S. investors...

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