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Reed, Bradford James. "Investment opportunities, agency conflicts, contracts, and the demand for audit quality." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187216.
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This paper investigates the relation between a firm's investment opportunity set (IOS) and the demand for audit quality. This paper hypothesizes that a firm's IOS influences the demand for audit quality indirectly through the IOS's influence on the firm's agency costs. A firm's IOS is expected to influence a firm's agency costs through the IOS's influence on the nature of the firm's contracts, and through the IOS'S influence on the relationships between the firm's management and the firm's owners and creditors. The sample is comprised of those firms who were being audited by Laventhol and Horwath (LH) when LH declared bankruptcy in November of 1990. The auditors appointed to replace LH ranged from members of the big six accounting firms to regional and local auditing firms. Because of the variation in the size of the replacement auditors, these auditor-replacement choices provide a good setting to study the factors associated with the demand for audit quality. The demand for audit quality is measured by the size of the replacement auditor. Two measures of this proxy are used. The first is a dichotomous variable representing the selection of a big six/non-big six auditor as the replacement auditor. The second is a continuous variable representing the subsequent auditor's size as measured by the combined sales of the replacement auditor's clients. Results obtained in this study are supportive of quality differentiated audits using both measures of auditor size. Firm-specific factors that are found to be significant in explaining a firm's demand for audit quality are: (1) management ownership, (2) debt, (3) the type of debt (public or private), and (4) risk. Control variables of firm size and the issuance of debt and equity securities are both positively associated with the size of the replacement auditor. The existence of a bonus plan and a direct measure of the firm's IOS are not significant in explaining the size of the replacement auditor. Tests of stock price reactions surrounding the bankruptcy of LH, and to the appointment of a successor auditor provide mixed results regarding the stock market's reaction to the effect of perceived audit quality on firm value.
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Guan, Yanling. "The impact of audit quality, analysts' forecasts and new accounting pronouncements on bond pricing and investment : an empirical analysis." Thesis, London Business School (University of London), 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.441395.
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Hughes, Mark, and n/a. "The format effects of operating lease disclosures on the quality of decision-making by non-professional investors." University of Canberra. Law, 2003. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060203.114404.
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The recent proposal by the Group of Four Plus One to modify the accounting
treatment of operating leases has attracted considerable comment. However, a review
of the publicly available submissions to this proposal reveals that no one has
addressed the issue in terms of the primary objective of general purpose financial
reports, that is, to provide decision useful information to non-professional investors.
This thesis seeks to redress this gap by providing some evidence of the ability of nonprofessional
investors to evaluate operating leases as they are presented according to
current accounting standards and alternative presentation formats.
The thesis reports the results of an experiment carried out on surrogates for nonprofessional
investors. The main finding is that the vast majority of subjects were
unable to evaluate operating lease information when it was disclosed in the notes,
rather than reported in the body of the Statement of Financial Position. Subjects
consistently relied on reported figures and seemed unable to incorporate information
presented in the notes to the financial reports, even when the links between the notes
and the reported figures were made more obvious than is currently the case.
The finding has a number of implications. It would appear that the existing accounting
treatment of operating leases is the source of a structural information asymmetry, as a
substantial proportion of users were unable to evaluate information relating to
operating leases. This information asymmetry should be removed for reasons of
economic efficiency. The recent withdrawal by non-professional investors from
equity markets shows that non-professional investors will react strongly if they start to
doubt the ability of general-purpose financial reports to provide them with decision
useful information.
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Torres, Cristina da Silva. "Modelo de avaliação da qualidade e priorização de investimentos em serviços aeroportuários." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/134944.
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O presente trabalho tem como objetivo principal o desenvolvimento de estruturas que contribuam para avaliação do alinhamento entre percepções de qualidade e planejamento de investimentos que impactem na melhoria da qualidade dos serviços aeroportuários prestados aos passageiros. Para tanto, o trabalho se propõe: (i) realizar o levantamento na literatura dos atributos de qualidade que afetam aos passageiros nos terminais; (ii) criar uma estrutura para avaliação de qualidade em serviços aeroportuários; (iii) hierarquizar atributos de qualidade; (iv) avaliar a qualidade percebida de atributos de qualidade; (v) analisar de gaps de importância atribuída e qualidade percebida, nas percepções de passageiros e gestores; (vi) verificar as relações entre investimentos e atributos de qualidade; e (vii) avaliar o impacto dos investimentos na qualidade percebida por passageiros. Entre as principais contribuições desta dissertação, está a proposição de três estruturas: (i) estrutura para avaliação da qualidade em serviços aeroportuários; (ii) estrutura para análise de gaps de qualidade em serviços aeroportuários; e (iii) uma estrutura para avaliação do impacto dos investimentos na qualidade percebida por passageiros. Utilizando o método proposto, os gestores dos aeroportos podem realizar diagnósticos, verificar oportunidades de melhoria e priorizar a alocação de recursos em planos de investimentos futuros. Além disso, as estruturas propostas nos capítulos deste trabalho podem auxiliar os profissionais aeroportuários a direcionar esforços e políticas estratégicas para atributos importantes e com baixa qualidade percebida pelos passageiros. As características diferenciadoras e específicas dos serviços aeroportuários são consideradas nas pesquisas desenvolvidas, uma vez que foram validadas por especialistas do setor.This study's main objective is to develop frameworks for contribute to assess the alignment between quality perceptions and investment planning, that impact on improving airport services quality, provided to passengers. Thus, this study proposes: (i) a literature survey of quality attributes that affect passengers in the terminals; (ii) to create a framework for quality assessment in airport services; (iii) prioritize quality attributes; (iv) evaluate quality perceived of quality attributes; (v) analyze gaps of prioritization and perceived quality, on the perceptions of passengers and managers; (vi) verify the relationship between investments and quality attributes; and (vii) evaluate the impact of investments in the quality perceived by passengers. Among the main contributions of this study is the proposition of three frameworks: (i) framework for the evaluation of quality attributes in airport services; (ii) quality gaps framework in airport services; and (iii) framework for evaluate the impact of investments in the quality perceived by passengers. Using the proposed method, airport managers can perform diagnostics, check opportunities for improvement and prioritize the allocation of future investment plans resources. In addition, the proposed frameworks in the chapters of this work can contribute to a structured model for analyse the alignment between perceived quality assessment and planning of airport investiments. This model can help airport managers to direct efforts and strategic policies for important attributes and low quality perceived by passengers. The distinguishing and specific characteristics of the airport services are considered in the research developed, since had been validated by sector experts.
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Yoshimura, Eduardo Koiti. "Opções reais aplicadas na analise da qualidade de investimentos na construção civil." [s.n.], 2008. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/257834.
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Orientador: Ariovaldo Denis GranjaDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Civil, Arquitetura e Urbanismo
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Resumo: Muitas empresas estão sendo forçadas a buscar uma rápida adaptação às mudanças, num ambiente de acirrada competição e incerteza futura, procurando investir em empreendimentos que proporcionem seu crescimento. Nesse novo cenário, os empreendimentos precisam criar alternativas que ofereçam maiores oportunidades. A incorporação de atributos de flexibilidade já na concepção do empreendimento permite que o risco e a incerteza sejam encarados como oportunidades estratégicas a serem exploradas. Recentemente, ressalvas têm sido direcionadas às técnicas convencionais de orçamento de capitais, tais como o Fluxo de Caixa Descontado (FCD). A análise de opções reais (ROA) destina-se à valoração e tomada de decisões de investimentos em ativos reais e, por sua vez, os investimentos da construção civil podem ser caracterizados como tais, pois normalmente apresentam longo prazo de maturação, são ricos em contingências, possuem irreversibilidade nos seus investimentos, e estão sujeitos a condições de incerteza tais como as econômicas. Nesta pesquisa, propõe-se uma abordagem exploratória por meio de um estudo de caso no setor da construção civil onde a ROA é utilizada. Estabelece-se como hipótese que a abordagem com base em ROA pode complementar os métodos tradicionais com base em FCD, bem como tornar mais aparentes as oportunidades contidas nestes tipos de investimento. Os resultados obtidos neste trabalho mostram que a abordagem com ROA produzem resultados superiores em relação ao valor do empreendimento quando comparada à análise restrita a métodos com base em FCD, de forma a proporcionar um efetivo gerenciamento e estabelecimento de uma nova cultura empresarial em empreendimentos da construção civil.
Abstract: Many companies are being forced to seek rapid adaptation to changes in a world of tough competition and uncertain future, trying to invest in enterprises that provide their growth. In this new scenario, ventures must create alternatives that offer greater opportunities. The incorporation of attributes of flexibility in the design of the project itself allows that risk and uncertainty be seen as strategic opportunities to be exploited. Recently, criticism has been directed at conventional techniques of capital budgeting, such as Discounted Cash Flow (DCF). The Real Options Analysis (ROA) is used for the evaluation and decision-making of investments in real assets and, in turn, investment in construction can be characterized as such, because they normally have long-term maturity, are rich in contingencies, have irreversibility in their investments, and are subject to conditions of uncertainty such as economic ones. In this research, it is proposed an exploratory through a case study where the ROA is used. It is like assuming that the approach based on ROA can complement traditional methods based on DCF, and making the opportunities contained in these types of investments more evident. The results in this paper show that the approach with ROA produce better results compared restricted analysis with methods based on FCD, in order to provide an effective management and establishment of a new enterprise culture in the civil.
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Mühlfriedel, Bernd [Verfasser], Ann-Kristin [Akademischer Betreuer] Achleitner, and Gunther [Akademischer Betreuer] Friedl. "Investments in Fallen Angel Stocks : An empirical analysis of quality indicators of disgraced growth companies / Bernd Mühlfriedel. Gutachter: Gunther Friedl. Betreuer: Ann-Kristin Achleitner." München : Universitätsbibliothek der TU München, 2012. http://d-nb.info/102533776X/34.
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Mühlfriedel, Bernd Verfasser], Ann-Kristin [Akademischer Betreuer] [Achleitner, and Gunther [Akademischer Betreuer] Friedl. "Investments in Fallen Angel Stocks : An empirical analysis of quality indicators of disgraced growth companies / Bernd Mühlfriedel. Gutachter: Gunther Friedl. Betreuer: Ann-Kristin Achleitner." München : Universitätsbibliothek der TU München, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:91-diss-20120715-1099076-0-3.
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Cardoso, João Pedro Dias. "Earnings quality and investment efficiency : european evidence." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/19926.
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Mestrado em Contabilidade, Fiscalidade e Finanças EmpresariaisO objetivo deste estudo é investigar o impacto da qualidade dos resultados na eficiência de investimento em empresas Europeias, cotadas e não cotadas. A amostra, retirada da base de dados Amadeus, é composta por 6921 empresas de 19 países. A eficiência do investimento é baseada no modelo de oportunidades crescentes de Biddle et al. (2009), expandido por literatura subsequente, e a qualidade dos resultados é medida usando o modelo de Dechow e Dichev modificado por McNichols (2002). Os resultados obtidos são significativos, e mostram que uma maior qualidade dos resultados está relacionada com uma maior eficiência de investimento, medida pelos desvios do nível ótimo. Estes resultados verificam-se quer considerando o valor absoluto destes desvios, quer considerando os cenários de subinvestimento (desvios negativos) ou sobreinvestimento (desvios positivos). O efeito do nível de caixa e endividamento foi igualmente considerado nesta relação, observando-se uma influência significativa.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of earnings quality on investment efficiency in European listed and unlisted companies. The sample, collected from Amadeus database, is composed by 6921 companies from 19 countries. The investment efficiency measure is based on Biddle et al. (2009) growth opportunities model and subsequent research, and earnings quality is measured using Dechow and Dichev (2002) model modified by McNichols (2002). Results show that higher earnings quality is associated with higher investment efficiency, measured by the deviations from the optimal investment level. These results hold for both underinvestment (negative deviations) and overinvestment (positive deviations) scenarios. Results also suggest that cash and leverage levels play an important role on the relation between earnings quality and investment efficiency.
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Renzi, J. Tyler. "Sustainable Investment and Analysis." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/146637.
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As sustainability becomes increasingly more important to large, multi-national corporations, it has become just has significant to investors and their investment strategies. As both students and investors for the University of Arizona Foundation, we believe that sustainability -- like most financial data -- is extremely important when making an investment decision. Our research showed that sustainability is very different from corporate social responsibility in that the sustainability approach does not focus solely on fixing environmental or social problems. Rather, sustainable companies have a keen eye for keeping these issues in mind while delivering sustainable products that ultimately add to shareholder value. With such a wide range of issues in mind, sustainable companies consistently proved to have management teams that effectively and successfully dealt with these problems simultaneously. In order to understand why companies are considered "sustainable", we found it necessary to examine the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), what qualifies a company for the DJSI, and how companies are ranked within the index. Finally, we used the sustainability criteria recommended by fellow classmate Long Hoang Diep to evaluate the financial impact that sustainability aspects have had on Intel Corporation.
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Yang, Yilin S. M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Incentive design for quality investment by smallholder producers." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122526.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Computation for Design and Optimization Program, 2019Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 83-85).
The food safety problem has been challenging the traditional operating model of Chinese agricultural supply chain. In the recent decades, more and more agribusinesses and cooperatives in China have adopted contract farming to strengthen food safety control during the sourcing process. Meanwhile, several pricing schemes are applied to incentivize the quality-improving effort from producers of different risk attitudes and defaulting likelihoods. In this paper, we consider a producer-agribusiness supply chain with stochastic wholesale market price and random production yield. We model the three commonly-observed pricing schemes of contract farming in China: 1. Markup contract, 2. Fixed-price contract and 3. Protective-price contract. We characterize the equilibrium of the contracting game under each pricing scheme with risk-neutral and/or risk-averse producer. Furthermore, we investigate the optimal contract selections under different producer characteristics. We find that compared to the most frequently-used markup contract, the fixed-price and protective-price contract better incentivize the risk-averse producer to exert higher levels of quality-improving effort; In addition, switching from a markup contract to a protective-price contract or a fixed-price contract (under a certain threshold of defaulting rate) will achieve a win-win outcome where both the expected profit of the company and the utility of the risk-averse producer increase. Finally, we offer insights on the selection between the protective-price contract and fixed-price contract under different market price and production yield conditions.
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S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Computation for Design and Optimization Program
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Cavassin, Rebecca Tarasiuk Borba. "Monitoramento da satisfação de clientes em empreendimentos imobiliários." Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, 2014. http://repositorio.utfpr.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/1199.
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A tendência à implantação e certificação de Sistemas de Gestão da Qualidade (SGQ) tem sido estudada pelo mundo, pois há diversos autores que citam como uma das maiores influências para a implantação desse sistema a melhora do relacionamento com o cliente. Porém, apesar da crença na relação entre a qualidade, satisfação do cliente e retorno econômico, é preciso uma melhor compreensão nesta área. Este trabalho tem por objetivo avaliar a relação entre a implantação de SGQ e a satisfação dos clientes de empreendimentos imobiliários novos na cidade de Curitiba. Para a obtenção de dados, a fim de sustentar este trabalho, realizou-se um estudo preliminar e um trabalho de levantamento quantitativo de dados. A primeira etapa buscou informações relevantes para a construção e a validação do questionário utilizado na segunda parte, a qual se destinou à captação da percepção do cliente final. Foram obtidos 386 questionários respondidos no período de março a novembro de 2013. Por meio de Análises Descritivas dos dados, verifica-se que amostra demonstra ser fiel ao universo da pesquisa, sem haver discrepâncias significativas. Para a realização da análise da amostra, considerou-se a abordagem definida pelos autores Hair et al. (2010), em que um modelo de satisfação do cliente só é plenamente compreendido quando se estuda: a variável, os construtos e os relacionamentos entre duas ou mais variáveis. Portanto, realizaram-se diversas Análises Descritivas, bem como os testes estatísticos Qui-Quadrado e Análise Discriminante, a fim de estudar as variáveis componentes da satisfação. Em seguida os constructos, os quais foram obtidos por meio da Análise Fatorial. Foram estudados por fim, a relação entre as variáveis através da Regressão Linear Múltipla dos dados. Como resultado desta pesquisa, percebeu-se que não é possível basear a conclusão final do estudo somente pela média da satisfação global, pois esta pode encobrir outros resultados. Além disso, verificou-se que as variáveis padrão do imóvel e tipo de gestão (com ou sem SGQ) podem influenciar na satisfação do cliente. Como exemplo, os participantes de empreendimentos construídos sem SGQ mostraram-se mais satisfeitos do que os daqueles construídos com SGQ e o grupo dos participantes de empreendimentos com padrão baixo, os mais insatisfeitos dentre todos os padrões. Por meio da Análise Fatorial, foram encontrados 4 fatores: a) comunicação com a empresa, b) produto, c) localização, d) projeto, bem como um fator geral, a satisfação global. Em relação à insatisfação, esta é evidente nos fatores que apresentaram maior importância, comunicação com a empresa e produto. Acredita-se que embora este estudo seja válido apenas para Curitiba, o desenvolvimento e a estrutura deste modelo oferecem uma referência consistente para a avaliação da satisfação do cliente na construção civil em outros contextos.The tendency to implementation and certification of quality management systems have been studied around the world, many authors cite as one of the biggest influences the improve the customer relationship. Despite the belief in the link between quality, customer satisfaction and economic returns, we need to learn more about this area. The propose of this study is to evaluate customer satisfaction of new buildings in the city of Curitiba. To get the data, we conducted a preliminary study and a quantitative survey. The first step searched for information to the construction and validation of the questionnaire used in the second part, which was destined to final customer. We obtained 386 questionnaires during March to November 2013. And through descriptive data analysis, we found that sample is true to the universe studied, because there are not significant differences. To perform the analysis of the sample, we considered the approach defined by the authors Hair et al. (2010), where a model of customer satisfaction is completely understood only when we studied: the variable, constructs, and relationships between two or more variables. Therefore, we performed several descriptive analyzes and the chi-square test in order to study the variable components of satisfaction. Next the constructs, which were obtained from through factor analysis. And last, we check the relationship between variables through multiple linear regressions of the data. As a result of this work, we noticed that it is not possible to rely only on the average overall satisfaction, because it may mask other results. In addition, we found that the variables: the default of the building and type of management (with or without TQM), can influence customer satisfaction. For example, participants of buildings built without TQM are more satisfied than those built with TQM, and the group of participants of buildings of low default is the most unhappy of all the defaults. Through factor analysis, we found four factors, communication with the company, product, location, design, as well as a general factor, overall satisfaction. The dissatisfaction is evident in the two most important factors: communication with the company and product. It is believed that, although our study is valid only for Curitiba, the development and structure of this model provide a great reference for the evaluation of customer satisfaction in other settings of the construction industry.
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Rubio, Jose F. "Analysis of investment strategies: a new look at investment returns." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2013. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1759.
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Intuition suggests that constraint investment strategies will result in losses due to a limited portfolio allocation. Yet prior research has shown that this is not the case for a particular set of constraint mutual funds so-called Socially Responsible Investing, SRI. In this paper I show that such assets do face loses to portfolio efficiency due to their limited asset universe. I contribute to the literature by employing two techniques to estimate asset performance. First, I estimate a DEA based efficiency score that allows for direct comparison between ex-post efficiency rankings and test the ex-ante relevance of such scores by including them into asset pricing models. Second, I further check if these results are consistent when comparing the performance of ethical funds based on the alphas of traditional asset pricing models even after adjusting for coskewness risk. Overall, the results suggest that ethical funds underperform traditional unconstraint investment assets.
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Starting after the turn of the millennium, inflation has been persistently higher than the short term T-Bill rate. Following the traditional view, this will imply a negative real rates of return that have become commonplace in the US economy. This paper examines the possibility that if an inflation risk discount contained in nominal rates exist and can explain low or negative real rates, using consumption based asset pricing model. Evidence suggests using the traditional Fisher equation to calculate real rates leads to an overestimate of real rates due to a modest inflation risk premium. To achieve non-negative real rates in a consumption based asset pricing framework the covariance between consumption growth and inflation innovations would have to be at least thirty times larger than empirically found, and in opposite direction, for the Post-Volker era. Still, though the after 2000’s covariance is positive, which suggest a discount on risk free, the magnitude is still too small to explain negativity of real rates.
JEL Classification : E21, E31
Key Words : Mutual Funds, Performance, Data Envelop Analysis, Coskewness, Risk Factors, Real Returns, Consumption Bases Asset Pricing Models, Inflation
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Keffeler, Bryce Thomas. "Security Investment Analysis: Meritage Homes." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/320203.
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Young, Jared Jeffrey. "Security Investment Analysis: Meritage Homes." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/322109.
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Wolfarth, David Allen. "An Analysis of Investment Strategies." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/578900.
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This thesis discusses two separate lectures conducted by investment professionals for the students of FIN 498H Applied Investment Management at the University of Arizona's Eller College of Management. Both lectures focused on stock-picking strategies, but offered different approaches to investing. As a University of Arizona alumnus and Financial Advisor for Merrill Lynch in Tucson, Ken Morris exposes common investment pitfalls and suggests criteria for a concentrated equity portfolio. His main suggestion is to maintain a long-term investment horizon and hold a concentrated basket of companies that feature a sustainable competitive advantage at a margin of safety. As a hedge fund manager, CFA, and MBA from the GSB, Peter Brimm reveals his exhaustive and meticulous investment research process that he uses to make large bets on only a few stocks.
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Yu, S.-M. "Information in property investment analysis." Thesis, University of Reading, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.233712.
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Brito, António Rui Gonçalves. "Case Study : olive investment analysis." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/14011.
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Mestrado em FinançasNos últimos anos, tem vindo a verificar-se um grande investimento, nacional e estrangeiro, na cultura do olival no Alentejo. Assistiu-se a um nascer de um novo tipo de compasso entre as oliveiras, surgindo o olival intensivo e mais tarde o superintensivo. Auxiliado pelas novas mecanizações na agricultura e pela possibilidade de rega, surgiu a dúvida sobre qual o melhor tipo de olival em termos financeiros. Como tal, este trabalho tem como principal objetivo determinar qual o olival que representa uma melhor oportunidade de investimento. Para analisar esta questão serão utilizados os métodos tradicionais de avaliação de projetos, nomeadamente o NPV, TIR, IR e Payback, métodos estes que serão fundamentais para nos proporcionar uma análise profunda a nível financeiro. Adicionalmente, será realizada uma análise micro e macroenómica recorrendo às 5 forças de Porter e à análise SWOT, deste modo conseguimos explorar os riscos da empresa e do respetivo setor.
In recent years, Alentejo has seen an increase in national and international investment in olive groves. New types of olive groves were created, first on intensive density and later on superintensive density. With the development of agriculture mechanization as well as the possibility of irrigation, the doubt of which kind of olive grove provides the best results in financial terms has appeared. This study aims to determine which olive grove provides the best investment opportunity. To analyse this investment, we used the traditional methods of project evaluation, such as the Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR), Payback and Profitability Index (PI). Additionally, we also applied a microeconomic and macroeconomic analysis in order to explore the industry and company's business risks according to Porter's five forces and SWOT analysis
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Wilson, Janine Lynn Flathmann. "The effect of institutional quality on trade and investment /." For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2004. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.
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Rennie, Shona. "Reproductive investment, gamete quality and diet in farmed salmonids." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.418907.
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Walters, Lindsey A. "Mate quality and parental investment in the house wren." Diss., Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users, 2008.
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Thesis (PH.D.)--Michigan State University. Zoology Ecology, Evolutionay Biology, and Behavior, 2008.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Aug. 11, 2009) Includes bibliographical references (p. 64-72). Also issued in print.
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Shen, Jian. "Essays on Nonlinear Pricing, Quality Investment, and Consumer Search." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397250097.
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Mallory, Mark Laurence Carleton University Dissertation Biology. "Acid precipitation, female quality, and parental investment of common goldeneyes." Ottawa, 1991.
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Lymburner, Alannah. "Differences in Thermal Quality Affect Investment in Thermoregulation by Lizards." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/39115.
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Body temperature affects physiological processes and, consequently, has a large impact on fitness. Lizards need to thermoregulate behaviourally to maintain their body temperature within a range that maximizes performance, but there are costs associated with thermoregulation. The thermal quality of an environment is a major cost of thermoregulation because it directly affects the time and energy that must be invested by an individual to achieve and maintain an optimal body temperature for performance. According to the cost-benefit model of thermoregulation, lizards should only thermoregulate when the benefits outweigh the costs of doing so. Thus, in habitats of poor thermal quality, individuals should thermoregulate less. Using two systems, an elevational gradient and a pair of habitats that vary in the amount of solar radiation they receive, I tested the hypothesis that investment in thermoregulation by lizards is dictated by the associated costs of thermoregulating. Temperature, and thus thermal quality, decreases with elevation. I found a significant positive relationship between elevation and effectiveness of thermoregulation of Yarrow’s spiny lizards (Sceloporus jarrovii). When comparing thermoregulation of ornate tree lizards (Urosaurus ornatus) living in the thermally superior open-canopy wash habitat or the closed-canopy upland habitat, I found that habitat type was a significant predictor of accuracy of body temperature. In the poorer quality habitat, lizards had smaller deviations of body temperature from their preferred temperature range. Overall, I conclude that the thermal quality of a lizards’ environment impacts their thermoregulation in the opposite direction than predicted by the cost-benefit model of thermoregulation. This suggests that the disadvantages of thermoconformity may be greater than the costs thermoregulating as habitats become more thermally challenging.
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Viguier, Tom, and Enguerrand Jourdier. "Foreign direct investment performance and institutional quality: a French perspective." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-413773.
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The purpose of this research is to provide an understanding of the relationship that may exist between the institutional determinants and the inward flow of FDI in France. Indeed, the French government and various decisions-makers have attributed the unique growth of the inward flow of FDI to the institutional quality of the country. Moreover, to support this assumption, scholars and experts describe France as an institutionally powerful country. Therefore, in order to test this assumption, we have designed an explanatory analysis of the institutional determinants’ indexes from the WGIs over the period from 2005 to 2018 to test their likely relationship with the FDI inflows in France using descriptive, correlation and regression analyses. This study is based on the rich and furnished literature addressing the role of institutional characteristics in attracting FDI. Although our research has been impacted by the Coronavirus pandemic in terms of data collection and analyses, the corroborating evidences from the empirical findings do not validate the raised hypotheses and bring out many practical implications beneficial for national and local policymakers as well as companies’ managers in the worldwide FDI location competition.
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Binneman, Jason. "Quality of earnings as an investment indicator : a literature review." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10172.
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Includes bibliographical references.This paper examines the characteristics of earnings quality, reviews the literature that assesses whether earnings quality does in fact affect market valuations and evaluates whether trading strategies based on this knowledge yield abnormal positive returns. This paper looks at why earnings quality should be an important consideration in evaluation [of] a firm, then investigates research on the accounting effect on valuations, covering the accrual effect, the general growth effect and the value-glamour effect. Thereafter, other factors that can influence earnings quality are documented, from earnings manipulation to the effects of external factors on quality of earnings. The concept and measurement of economic profits are also examined. Lastly, trading strategies based on earnings quality are investigated to see if abnormal profits can be earned from such strategies.
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Zhao, Fang. "Implications of FIN 46 for Accruals Quality and Investment Efficiency." FIU Digital Commons, 2014. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1553.
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The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Interpretation No. 46 (FIN 46), Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities – An Interpretation of ARB No. 51, in January 2003 and revised it in December 2003, with the objective to improve the transparency of financial information. Under FIN 46, companies are required to consolidate variable interest entities (VIEs) on financial statements if they are the primary beneficiaries of the VIEs. This dissertation empirically examines whether the implementation of this new financial reporting guidance affects firms’ accruals quality and investment efficiency. A manually collected sample comprised of firms affected by FIN 46 and firms disclosing no material impact from FIN 46 is used in the empirical analyses.The first part of the dissertation investigates the effects of FIN 46 on accruals quality. By using different accrual quality measures in prior studies, this study found that firms affected by FIN 46 experienced a decrease in accrual quality compared to firms reporting no material impact from FIN 46. Among the firms affected by FIN 46, firms consolidating VIEs were compared with firms terminating or restructuring VIEs. The accruals quality of firms consolidating VIEs was found to be lower than that of firms terminating or restructuring VIEs. These results are consistent in tests using alternative control samples.The second part of this dissertation examines the effects of FIN 46 on investment efficiency. Mixed results were found from using two different proxies used in prior literature. Using the investment-cash flow sensitivity to proxy for investment efficiency, firms affected by FIN 46 experienced a decrease in investment efficiency compared to firms reporting no material impact. It was also found that higher investment-cash flow sensitivity for firms consolidating VIEs during post-FIN 46 periods compared to both the no-impact firms and the matched pair control sample. Contrasting results were found when the deviation from expected investment is used as another proxy for investment efficiency. Empirical analyses show that FIN 46 firms experienced improved investment efficiency measured by the deviation from expected investment after their adoption of FIN 46. This study also provides explanations for the opposite results from the two different proxies.
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Ciller, Berk (Berk U. ). "Turkish residential real estate investment analysis." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/42013.
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Thesis (S.M. in Real Estate Development)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2007.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
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This paper examines the investment potential for Turkish Residential Real Estate Market, focusing mainly on Istanbul. With a stable economy since 2002, dynamic population, geo-political location and the potential accession to EU, Turkey provides exciting opportunities to local and international investors. Turkish economy, worldwide, ranks at twentieth in terms of GDP level and in 2005, ULI/ PriceWaterhouseCoopers has ranked Istanbul as the top development market. The question the paper is trying to answer is: Does Turkey's Residential Real Estate Market provide an attractive investment opportunity? To determine this I have reviewed the following factors: economic forecasts, political stability, newly enacted mortgage market, FDI forecasts, potential for foreign real estate ownership, current status & future predictions of real estate sector, potential of EU accession and comparison to Spanish & Romanian real estate markets. The method I used to accomplish this was mainly literature review and interviews with real estate brokers/developers. Turkey's economic stability, developing mortgage market, continuing FDI, foreigners' investment in vacation houses, improving legal transparency and potential accession to European Union makes Turkey, especially Istanbul, an increasingly attractive market. On the other hand, political stability is crucial for economic stability. In addition, slow legal system, unregistered construction activity, insufficient quality of some buildings and limited infrastructure in certain parts of the country remain to be problematic issues. Considering Turkey's opportunities and risks, it is a top investment destination in Europe, dependent on sustainable political stability, an improved mortgage & legal system and successful implementation of EU accession plan.
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Pfeffer, Mary Graves. "Venture Capital Investment and Protocol Analysis." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1987. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331014/.
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This study used protocol analysis to identify key variables in the venture capital investment decision-making process. The study used a fictional business plan which was based on six actual business plans. This fictional business plan was presented to ten venture capitalists who were asked to review it to decide whether to interview the investee. The protocols obtained from these subjects were analyzed to determine patterns within the subjects' review. The sections of the business plan which were commonly reviewed first were the deal structure, the executive summary, and the management section. The management section was used by the greatest number of subjects. The market section was used the greatest number of times. The data were also organized by type of operators used in each subject's protocols. Information Search/Retrieval operators were most common, followed by Task Structuring/Set Goal operators. When classified into the four major categories of Task Structuring/Set Goal, Information Acquisition, Analytical/ Inferential, and Choice operators, Analytical/Inferential operators were used most frequently. Choice operators were least used. The phrases were analyzed by the relevant section in the business plan. The market received the greatest number of references, followed by references to the product and to management. However, when references to the income statement and balance sheet were combined as phrases relevant to the financial statements, the financial statements were referred to more frequently than the product or the people. The subjects appeared to use an unidentified choice program within which certain models could be identified as subroutines. The subjects used an elimination-by-aspects model to screen the business plan. If the business plan met the criteria within the elimination-by-aspects model of the subject, the subject used an additive/nonlinear model for the remainder of the review. The results of this study indicate that financial statements provide information important in the venture capital investment decision-making process. This finding is contrary to the advice usually given to potential venture capital investees.
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Barkei, Christian L. "Foreign direct investment in Syria : an analysis of Investment Law No. 10." Thesis, Durham University, 2004. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/3165/.
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This thesis examines the economic situation in Syria during the 1980's and 1990's and assesses the reasoning behind the introduction of Investment Law No. 10. It discusses the validity of the general assumption that Investment Law No. 10 marked the first step in the opening-up of the Syrian economy. It firstly examines the structure of the Syrian state to ascertain whether the regime would have any particular interest in promoting such legislation apart from a general wish to increase the economic well-being of its population, placing the discussion of investment vehicles within a more general economic framework. It then places the economic and political situation in Syria at the time of the introduction of the legislation within its particular political and economic historical context and then examines the legislation and its actual implementation and operation in detail to try to obtain an accurate picture of projects operating under Investment Law No 10. This is of particular relevance as prior to this study no overarching view of the actual implementation of Investment Law No 10 has been attempted. The wider economic picture in Syria is then scrutinized to evaluate the overall economic situation for investment projects operating under Investment Law No. 10. In conclusion, the links between economics and politics in Syria are examined in order to establish the actual motives and reasoning of the regime in introducing this particular piece of legislation.
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Patel, Sunaina Kilachand. "An analysis of foreign direct investment and portfolio investment into developing countries." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 1996. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1347648507.
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Xiang, Linxi. "Essays on educational investment, income inequality and income mobility." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/8032.
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The first two pieces of work in this thesis look into the strategic decision of intergenerational educational investment and its implication to income inequality, skill distribution and income mobility. The contribution of my work is to incorporate matching frictions into the marriage market and analyze returns from strategic educational investments. The mechanism in the marriage market adopted follows the spirit of the competitive search model which interprets the ‘mismatch’ phenomenon as the result of coordination frictions in the matching process. The competitiveness and frictions in the family formation process create decreasing returns to high educational investment. The more parental households who choose high educational investment, the less is the return to high educational investment compared to the lower alternative. The fact that rich parental households suffer less from costly high educational investment puts the poor households at a disadvantage and the poor are more likely to be crowded out of the group that have incentives to choose high investment. The model predicts that given a certain parameter region, children of poor parents are more likely to become skilled if the fraction of rich parental households is not too large. In a multi-generational dynamic setting, it further implies the existence of a stationary household income distribution and income mobility rates. An increase in returns to education alone generates a larger stationary fraction of rich households and a larger upward income mobility rate. An increase in the cost of the high educational investment alone generates a smaller stationary fraction of rich households and a smaller upward income mobility rate. The third piece of work looks into the strategic interaction between passenger carriers over product quality and the location choice in a duopoly scheduled flight market. The model predicts that the two carriers prefer to be specialized in different flight quality (non-stop vs. one-stop) and adopt the same schedule when a higher quality difference makes the consumers less sensitive to the flight frequency. It contributes to literatures on the application of two-dimensional product differentiation in air-travel market analysis.
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McIntosh, Lee Michelle. "International investment and the environment, an analysis of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0023/MQ47927.pdf.
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Behrens, Jeffrey S. "Investment performance of life-science venture capital investment funds, persistence, and subsector analysis." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/38334.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology; and, (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2007.Vita.
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Venture capital investment performance data and performance attribution are not typically published. Venture investors articulate (and sell to LPs) conflicting strategies; the popular business literature and culture is rife with rapidly changing beliefs about the relative attractiveness of healthcare venture subsectors, particularly therapeutics and devices. To examine these issues in a more rigorous format I developed a dataset of healthcare venture deals, scored each deal with a new metric ("jb-score"), and assigned each portfolio company to appropriate subsectors. This dataset was then used to examine subsector performance, persistence, and fund strategy attribution (pure vs. mixed healthcare strategies.) Specifically, I found that the performance characteristics of device and therapeutic (aka biotech or drug) investments are similar: both subsectors evidence similar jb-scores and firms who invest heavily in these subsectors show similar levels of persistent overperformance with devices showing somewhat higher persistence. Firms that focus on one subsector do not perform as well as firms that follow a more balanced strategy. Finally, I examine the validity of the jb-score and offer some suggestions for future improvements.
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M.B.A.
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Gan, Huiqi. "CEO Managerial Ability, Corporate Investment Quality, and the Value of Cash." VCU Scholars Compass, 2015. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3695.
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This study investigates how CEO managerial ability affects investment quality, investment efficiency, and the value of cash. Specifically, I examine whether higher managerial ability is associated with higher M&A quality, more efficient capital investments, and higher value of cash. Investment decision-making and implementation can signal a CEO’s managerial ability (Stein 2003), and shareholders assign more value to the cash of those firms with high ability CEOs. Thus, I predict that more able CEOs conduct higher quality M&A and make more efficient capital investment decisions. I also propose that the value of cash is higher for firms with more able CEOs. Using the methodology developed in Demerjian et al. (2012) to estimate CEO managerial ability, I find that the M&As conducted by more able CEOs are less likely to experience goodwill impairment and divestitures in the post-acquisition period. I also find that managerial ability, to a certain extent, can improve capital investment efficiency when firms have a higher likelihood of over- or under-investment. Furthermore, I provide evidence that cash has higher value if it is managed by more able CEOs. Overall, my findings suggest that while managerial ability plays a limited role in improving M&A quality, it significantly increases capital investment efficiency and the value of cash.
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Myung, Young-soo, and Dong-wan Tcha. "Return on Investment Analysis for Facility Location." Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Operations Research Center, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5306.
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We consider how the optimal decision can be made if the optimality criterion of maximizing profit changes to that of maximizing return on investment for the general uncapacitated facility location problem. We show that the inherent structure of the proposed model can be exploited to make a significant computational reduction.
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Muller, Jonathan. "Analysis of KiwiSaver Investment Fund Choice Behavior." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Psychology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/7911.
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The popularity of KiwiSaver, combined with a demographic shift to an ageing population, will make savings invested in KiwiSaver an important source of income in retirement. To investigate the investment fund choices by KiwiSaver members a survey was circulated among 134 people; 87 KiwiSaver members, and 47 non-members. Respondents answered questions on their investment behavior, knowledge, and risk attitudes towards investment in general, and KiwiSaver. The results show investment in KiwiSaver tends to be conservative as a result of low levels of involvement, knowledge, and risk tolerance, and is more common among females. Investment in riskier growth funds is mostly by younger people and those who are risk tolerant as measured by the KiwiSaver Risk Profile.
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Gjata, Enkeleida. "Investment analysis for "Tomorri Ltd.", Berat, Albania." Master's thesis, This resource online, 1995. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-03302010-020540/.
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Söderbom, Måns. "Investment in African manufacturing : a microeconomic analysis /." [Göteborg : Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan vid Göteborgs universitet], 2000. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=009002322&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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LEVY, NATALIA CORDEIRO. "INVESTMENT ANALYSIS UNDER UNCERTAINTY: AN ANALYTICAL APPROACH." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2009. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=14911@1.
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A avaliação de oportunidades de investimentos é sem duvida um tema de grande interesse, pois é o modo pela qual as firmas norteiam suas decisões de investimento ao avaliar que este ou aquele projeto cria ou não valor para esta firma. A teoria de avaliação de investimentos produtivos inicia seu caminho partindo do Valor Presente Líquido (VPL) e vai se ramificando ao longo se sua literatura, percorrendo sempre o objetivo de incorporar a incerteza nos modelos. O estágio atual desta caminhada é a avaliação por opções reais, e tudo que a antecede passou a ser chamado de teoria clássica. Mas muitos problemas enfrentados nas abordagens encontradas na literatura de avaliação de opções reais são antigos. Em função da analogia com as opções financeiras, a metodologia proposta para avaliação das opções reais originaram dos modelos de apreçamento de opções financeiras. Mas esta extensão metodológica é em si problemática, pois os ativos ditos reais e os ativos financeiros guardam entre si importantes diferenças como: risco privado, completude dos mercados, diferenças de liquidez, reversibilidade e uma profunda diferença entre os níveis de assimetria de informação. Estas diferenças comprometem a significância dos resultados finais desta avaliação, pois violam algumas hipóteses que estão por de trás da teoria de apreçamento de opções financeiras, além de não incorporar a parcela de risco privado na avaliação, apenas risco de mercado. Outras abordagens para avaliação de opções reais surgiram para tentar resolver o problema da incompletude dos mercados, mas também retornam a outros problemas já discutidos na teoria clássica como, por exemplo, a dificuldade da escolha da taxa de desconto e a subjetividade da estimativa de um fluxo de caixa equivalente certo. Apesar de ter criado um novo paradigma na concepção de valor dos projetos de investimento, a literatura da teoria de opções reais é ainda divergente quanto aos métodos de avaliação. Este trabalho tem como objetivo discutir as dificuldades práticas de se avaliar/ quantificar as opções de um ativo real que se dá tanto pela inadequação dos métodos de apreçamento próprios para derivativos financeiros, quanto pela subjetividade que se incorre com a utilização de métodos alternativos.
The valuation of investment opportunities is undoubtedly a topic of great interest as it is the manner by which firms guide their investment decisions and assess whether this or that project creates or not value. The valuation theory of productive investments starts its way on the Net Present Value Rule (NPV) and branches along its literature, pursuing always the goal of incorporating the uncertainty into the models. The current stage of this path is the valuation of real options, and so everything that precedes it is now called classical theory. Nevertheless, many problems in the approaches found in literature for assessing real options are old. As the analogy with financial options is common, the proposed methodology for pricing real options bases itself in the financial options models. But this methodological extension is in itself problematic, as the so-called real assets and financial assets retain important differences between themselves such as private risk, completeness of markets, differences in liquidity, reversibility and a dramatic difference in the levels of information asymmetry. These differences undermine the significance of the valuation’s final results, as they violate some of the assumptions behind the pricing theory of financial options. As well as that, only the market component of risk is considered in the assessment, leaving private risk unattended. Other approaches for pricing real options have emerged in order to tackle the problem of market incompleteness, but are not able to prevent other issues already discussed in the classical theory, such as the difficulty in choosing the discount rate and the subjectivity of the certainty equivalent cash flow estimation. Despite having created a new standard in the understanding of what does the value of an investment project represent, real options literature is still uneasy with regards to valuation methods. The aim of this dissertation is to discuss the practical difficulties in the valuation/ quantification of the options present in a real asset. These are given both by the inadequacy in the methods that were designed specifically for financial derivatives, and by the subjectivity that is incurred when one makes use of alternative methods.
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Meave-Flores, Gerardo 1953. "Investment portfolio analysis: Energy and gold-minerals." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291766.
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The purpose of this research is to analyze the impact that a sample of securities blended together would have upon the variance of the expected returns of an energy and a gold-minerals portfolio. A framework based on the Markowitz model, but solved linearly, has been constructed in which the optimal weight of each security in its respective portfolio is determined in order to minimize variance given the expected portfolio returns. The data elaborated for each stock (price, return and dividend) were on an annual basis for a period of 16 years and are the basis from which the projections of both the energy and the gold-minerals portfolio expected returns were derived. The results show that the variance in both portfolios is considerable, because stocks as a group show co-movement, meaning that stocks tend to do well or poorly as a group.
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Lee, Tang-Chih. "Three essays on investment-specific technical change and economic growth." Connect to resource, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1127205094.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005.Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xiii, 137 p.; also includes graphics (some col.). Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-137). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center
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Annan-Diab, Fatima. "Multinational enterprises and investment motivations : a strategic analysis of inward direct investment into Ireland." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.586729.
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From both a firm and country perspective understanding the nature of multinational investment decisions is an important topic in understanding the contribution it makes to the economic growth, development of national prosperity and wealth creation of individual countries. The corporate decision as to where to invest, the resources and core competences to commit to each location is crucial for the creation of a firm's sustainable competitive advantage. Understanding the process of corporate investment decisions contributes to generating effective managerial recommendations to be adopted by multinational enterprises and to generating appropriate economic policies for host countries to enhance their attractiveness as investment destinations. The objective of this thesis is to develop a conceptual framework that provides insights into the strategic decision-making behaviour of multinational firms. It seeks to advance the understanding of the link between multinationals' foreign direct investment behaviour and location-specific considerations, which influence their ultimate investment decisions. The underlying assumption of this research is that in a changing global economy, resources and core competences of the multinational firm drive its decision making process with respect to international investment; furthermore multinational investment decisions are influenced by the changes in the environment of the host country. The notion that the manner in which a firm utilises its resources contributes to the development of its core competences directly influences its strategic and investment decisions. As a consequence, firms must examine and understand the resources and capabilities that enable them to generate above-normal 'rates of return'; this process will help the organisation to compete in the most effective manner in dynamic global markets. This research adopts a resource-based view with relevant key insights drawn from International business theory to understand multinational foreign direct investment decisions and motivations. The development of a theoretical framework for . multinational investment motivations bridges the resource-based view and international business literature; additionally it addresses a key challenge for the two literatures by reducing fragmentation and synthesising different theoretical perspectives.
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Hoffmann, Ruben. "Quality policy, market structure and investment behavior in the food marketing chain /." Uppsala : Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 2006. http://epsilon.slu.se/200642.pdf.
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Lewis, Melissa F. "Assessing earnings quality at the IPO the role of reputable investment banks /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3278251.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Kelley School of Business, 2007.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-09, Section: A, page: 3935. Adviser: M. Daniel Beneish. Title from dissertation home page (viewed May 8, 2008).
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Fang, Yi, and 方怡. "An Analysis of Individual Mutual Fund Investor Behavior and Perceived Quality of the Securities Investment and Trust Company." Thesis, 1996. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/09621339662171319555.
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CHEN, CHING-WEN, and 陳靖玟. "A Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis of the Relationship Between Accounting Earnings Quality and Investment-Cash Flow Sensitivity." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/w8m66w.
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After the 2008 financial turmoil, the value of cash holdings has changed. This paper attempts to examine whether the investment-cash flow sensitivity after the financial crisis has been affected and to explore the role of accounting quality plays in the sensitivity reduction. We adopt the fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to assess the relationship between accounting quality and investment-cash flow sensitivity of Taiwan’s listed firms during the period 2010-2016. The fsQCA model analyzes various combinations of causal relationships with all independent variables as configuration conditions, and further observes various combinations including different control variables. The findings of empirical results show that accounting quality can reduce the investment-cash flow sensitivity under different causal configurations.
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Wu, Yu Lin, and 吳昱霖. "Financial Information Quality and Investment Decision." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/62653063853358811275.
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Prior studies suggest that higher-quality financial information can enhance investment efficiency by mitigating information asymmetries such as moral hazard and adverse selection, this article extends previous research and explores whether information transparency, measured by the announcement of the Information Disclosure and Transparency Ranking System, is associated with a reduction of over-investment or with a reduction of under-investment. We use Pooled Regression Model to examine the relationship between information transparency and investment decision, the sample covers all public listed firms from 2003 to 2007. The empirical results show that information transparency is positively associated with investment among firms with higher likelihood of under-investment; on the other hand, information transparency is negatively associated with investment among firms with higher likelihood of over-investment. In additions, institutional ownership and board of directors are associated with lower over- and under-investment. Overall, information transparency, institutional ownership, and board of directors have a monitoring effect on firm capital investment decision.
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LEE, YING-SHENG, and 李盈昇. "Sports investment analysis platform." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/36ss27.
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This study is the research on feasibility to invest in sports lottery of Taiwan. It explores the difference between investment in sports lottery and common investment tools. Thus, besides the well-known investment tools, the public with intention of investment have sports lottery as the option. According to earnings announcement of sports lottery of Department of Physical Education, in 2016, revenue of sports lottery broke through NT$30 billion. This year, it is expected to be NT$35 billion. It shows that more and more people participated in investment of sports lottery. If the public with intention of investment and have insufficient knowledge of sports lottery obtain simple introduction and those who have purchased sports lottery acquire higher probability to obtain profits from sports competitions, it reveals the potential of market and it should be valuable innovative service. In fact, investment should be analyzed. Currently, in the market, there is no sports lottery analysis related industry. Based on above, analytical platform of sports investment is developed. This program of entrepreneurship is based on the members’ long-term experience and knowledge of sports competition. It not only analyzes sports competition to allow buyers to obtain profits, but also, more importantly, enhances people’s continuous support of sports activities.
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CHUN-NAN, KUO, and 郭軍男. "Superficies Investment Decision Analysis." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15134422789313038641.
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The superficies investment decision faces challenging future uncertainties. It possesses a sequence of decisions including bid-or-not, product planning, and timing selection. In each stage, high risk choices must be made in prior to realization of uncertain events under which benefits are marginal because the superficies are not perceived as high value due to traditional land ownership thinking in Taiwan. The current practice relies on expert experiences and thus demands a comprehensive decision analysis model that supports high decision quality. Therefore, this study aims to develop a UNISON decision analysis framework that integrates qualitative scenario planning and quantitative decision tree analysis to evaluate multi-stage superficies alternatives. This study specially applies the min-max regret concept in the multi-stage decision so that the uncertainties of superficies decisions can be handled. A case study result shows that it would be better if the case company has not decided to bid the superficies and to invest in the following real estate projects which turned out a negative impact. This case study shows the viability of the proposed model to superficies practice.
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Chen, Yu-chih, and 陳昱至. "Fuzzifying Simplified Integrated InventoryModel with Quality Improvement Investment." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/05277838036544162847.
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Supply chain and just-in-time (JIT) are popular concepts in manufacturing in practice. Using JIT concept in supply chain environment to gain and hold a competitive advantage is usually applied in manufacturing. Characteristics of JIT consist of frequent delivery, short lead time, close supplier ties, small lot sizes and consistent high quality. This integrated inventory model can be useful to find a optimal strategic alliance between the vendor and the purchaser for profit sharing. Pan and Yang (2002) studied integrated inventory with crisp value. In real environment, for purchaser and vendor, getting and predicting precisely and exactly the order information on large variety products with low quantity are very difficult. As the result, we discuss that the integrated inventory model without crashing cost and with quality improvement investment is considered by the concept of fuzzy sets in this paper and find the phenomena for the model by numerical data, which can give us another point of view to solve the problem with care. In this paper, we introduce the concept of fuzzy sets into the integrated inventory model with quality investment improvement by three fuzzy factors, annual demand, production rate and out-of-control probability.