Browsing by Subject "Finance"
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(2023-07-18)This dissertation traces the interaction and development of the American national economy and state by examining military spending from 1835 to 1865. During these years, the United States Army engaged in three major wars: ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1980)In this dissertation, an algorithm was developed to solve large scale discrete nonlinear knapsack problems (NKP) with multiple resource constraints. The algorithm is essentially a dynamic programming technique in a sense ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1994)
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)A multi-method approach is used to examine firms that announced stock repurchases on the open market during 1988 and 1989. An event study methodology is used to determine the abnormal returns of these firms relative to ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1988)Prior bankruptcy studies have primarily used financial ratio based models to discriminate between matched pairs of bankrupt and non-bankrupt firms. Typically, the focus is on the year of bankruptcy, and the years(s) preceding ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1977)The purpose of this study was to develop a model to aid college administrators and others in the process of determining the propensity of their institutions toward bankruptcy. First, a review of management techniques in ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1980)The purpose of this study is to estimate the economic and fiscal impacts of lignite development for the Brazos Valley Economy of Texas for 1977 through 1999. A regional economic-demographic model was used to analyze the ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1978)This dissertation is concerned with identifying and delineating the organizational form, behavior and goals of a firm, owned and operated by its customers. The term consumer-managed firm, as used in this dissertation, ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1988)This study examines the relationship between defined benefit pension plan data and the market value of the firm's common equity. An equity valuation model is developed which relates the firm's equity value to (1) the ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)The corporate control hypothesis predicts that an efficacious takeover market will facilitate the efficient utilization of societal resources and result in management decisions that serve to maximize shareholder wealth. ...
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(2020-06-01)The first chapter shows how physical, morphological, genetic, and market factors affect the price of purebred Nellore sold at auctions in Brazil. We perform a hedonic analysis under a hierarchical model to document that ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)Capital accumulation in American agriculture has undergone an evolution over the last century. The increasing substitution of capital for labor, new technologies, and global product and financial markets, have made it more ...
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(Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014-10-10)Social impact bonds (SIBs) are relatively new financing mechanisms that can be used to finance public health initiatives addressing issues such as asthma and infant mortality. Since 2010, when the world’s first SIB ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1981)The purpose of this investigation is to construct and empirically test a microeconomic growth model for the individual federal credit union. Growth is defined as the single-period percentage change in federal credit union ...
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(2009-05-15)This study investigates the case of a Zambian institution providing credit for smallholder agribusiness commercialization and compares this lender’s model with the major microfinance institutions, to identify specific ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1990)This dissertation deals with a firm level decision making process that involves the acquisition and use of information in a high volume credit scoring environment. A two stage model is developed to describe the choice a ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1977)This dissertation is an attempt to determine the economic impact of tax changes and the introduction of environmental controls on mineral extracting industries. The theory developed is applicable to any mineral extracting ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1976)The purpose of this study was to identify problems unique to school districts located in close proximity to the United States/Mexico border and to suggest recommendations and future research related to the provisions for ...
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(2011-10-21)Recent theory predicts that two factors influencing the CEO’s view of risk, overconfidence and debt-like compensation, have implications for CEO forced turnover and firm equity value, respectively. We test each of these ...