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Capital budgeting practices: evidence from Sri Lanka
Nurullah, Mohamed; Kengatharan, Lingesiya - In: Journal of Advances in Management Research 12 (2015) 1, pp. 55-82
analyzed using appropriate statistical techniques. Findings – The results revealed that net present value (NPV) was the most … affects the use of the capital budgeting methods (NPV, IRR and PB) and incorporating risk tool (sensitivity analysis and … budgeting practices dominantly NPV, IRR and incorporating risk tool of sensitivity analysis although they were found to be …
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Optimal replacement age of a conventional cotton harvester system
Ibendahl, Gregory; Farrell, Matthew; Spurlock, Stan; … - In: Agricultural Finance Review 74 (2014) 1, pp. 2-16
Purpose – The cotton industry has seen many technological advances throughout history that have greatly decreased the number of labor hours required to produce a bale of cotton. The latest advancement is a harvesting system that replaces the harvester, boll buggy, and module builder with a...
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Consistent IRR and NPV rankings
Robison, Lindon J.; Barry, Peter J.; Myers, Robert J. - In: Agricultural Finance Review 75 (2015) 4, pp. 499-513
Purpose – It is well known that internal rate of return ( IRR ) and net present value ( NPV ) rankings of mutually … the two ranking methods. The purpose of this paper is to deduce sufficient conditions for consistent IRR and NPV … sufficient conditions (methods) that can be used to resolve inconsistent IRR and NPV rankings. However, the different methods do …
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Is Sustainable Development Compatible with Rawlsian Justice?
Raymond, Francis E - In: Contributions in Theoretical Economics 6 (2006) 1
Does economic justice stymie economic development? This paper demonstrates that sustainability is compatible with …
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EU Taxonomy: Mission Impossible
Kooths, Stefan - In: The Economists’ Voice 19 (2022) 2, pp. 243-249
Abstract The EU Taxonomy stands in sharp contrast to the principles of a market economy. It requires regulatory knowledge that cannot be expected to exist and hampers rather than stimulates entrepreneurial initiatives for coping with socially relevant scarcities. For all objectives addressed...
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Diskontraten: Endogen oder nicht endogen? / Disounting: Endogenous or not Endogenous?
Pittel, Karen - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 225 (2005) 4, pp. 441-458
Zusammenfassung Die Bedeutung, die der zukünftigen Entwicklung von Wirtschaft und Umwelt zugemessen wird, ist eine der entscheidenden Determinanten dafür, ob Nachhaltigkeit erreicht werden kann. Entsprechend wird der Art und Weise, wie Wirtschaftssubjekte die Zukunft diskontieren, in der...
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Einkommenswachstum, steigende Gesundheitsausgaben und Finanzierung / Income Increase, Health Spending Growth and Financing
Adam, Hans - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 227 (2007) 5-6, pp. 565-577
Summary In 2005, total health spending in Germany amounted to € 239,4 billion or € 2900 per capita. Given the aging of the population in the next decades and the progress in medical technology there are some doubts about the affordability of health spending growth. One important criterion...
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On the Shoulders of Giants: Tracing Back the Intellectual Sources of the Current Debate on “GDP and Beyond” to the 19th Century
Moore, Nils aus dem; Schmidt, Christoph M. - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 233 (2013) 3, pp. 266-290
emphasize sustainability issues and focus on the accessibility of the information, using modern tools of measurement and …
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Sustainability of Public Debt in Germany – Historical Considerations and Time Series Evidence
Burret, Heiko T.; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 233 (2013) 3, pp. 291-335
anecdotal historical analysis, we conduct formal tests on fiscal sustainability, including tests on stationarity and … rejection of the hypothesis of fiscal sustainability for the period from 1950 to 2010. This evidence leads to the conclusion … to ensure that fiscal consolidation actually takes place - for the sake of public debt sustainability.  …
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Corporate Social Responsibility in the Legal Framework of Global Value Chains
Ucaryilmaz Deibel, Talya - In: Law and Development Review 15 (2022) 2, pp. 329-356
Abstract What is the place of voluntary self-regulation in today’s international trade? Can we continue to understand the contract in its relation to the historical unity of state and law considering the massive transformation of the closely related dichotomies between national and...
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