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Efficiency And Performance Of Real Estate Investment Trusts (Reits): An Empirical Examination, Can Topuz
Efficiency And Performance Of Real Estate Investment Trusts (Reits): An Empirical Examination, Can Topuz
Doctoral Dissertations
This study has a threefold purpose. Its first objective is to investigate input and output efficiencies in the Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) industry. Its second objective is to understand the impact of size, property share, loan production, debt ratio, property and geographic diversification, control and governance variables, overall risk, capital risk, growth rate, and management type on a number of efficiency measures, including profit, cost, allocative, technical, pure technical and scale efficiency. The third objective is to assess the impact of structural and regulatory changes in the industry on REITs' productivity, technology, and efficiency changes.
I have estimated the …
Financial Performance Of Insurance Companies Following Initial Public Offerings, Kulkanya Napompech
Financial Performance Of Insurance Companies Following Initial Public Offerings, Kulkanya Napompech
Doctoral Dissertations
The quality of insurance companies is a very significant societal issue. Policyholders pay premiums assuming indemnity of their potential losses. It is essential that an insurer be able to meet its contractual obligations when a loss occurs. An initial public offering provides an infusion of capital and an expansion of resources available to a firm. Thus, the objective of this study is to examine the financial and operating impacts of initial public offerings during 1980–2000 on insurance companies.
Chapter 2 examines changes in operating performance of property/casualty insurance companies following initial public offerings. I find that following initial public offerings, …
Asp -Pricing: A Black -Scholes Option Pricing Formulation, Chaitanya Singh
Asp -Pricing: A Black -Scholes Option Pricing Formulation, Chaitanya Singh
Doctoral Dissertations
The Applications Service Provider (ASP) arrangement has engendered a revolution in the area of corporate information technology (IT) by transforming software from a packaged off-the-shelf product to an on-line virtual service.
The focus of this study is to establish a sound mathematical foundation for evaluating software rental agreements (embedding exit flexibility) by incorporating a real options framework (based upon the Black-Scholes approach) into the traditional capital budgeting technique. The static discounted cash flow or net present value analysis may not adequately serve as a ‘barometer’ of outsourcing value due to its inherent weaknesses. On the other hand, the options approach …