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Survival Analysis Of Internet Companies: An Application Of The Hazard Model, Khaled Elkhal
Survival Analysis Of Internet Companies: An Application Of The Hazard Model, Khaled Elkhal
Doctoral Dissertations
The purpose of this study is to develop a model that predicts failure and estimates the time of survival of dotcoms using a number of financial and non-financial factors. This model can be used as a warning tool for stockholders, creditors, and consumers to protect themselves from such failures.
I employ the Cox (1972) Proportional Hazards Model in a cross-sectional and time-varying context using financial data over the 1998–2001 period. Results from a cross-sectional analysis reveal that the coefficient estimates for variables CFTL and NSTA are consistently negative and highly significant. This suggests that higher sales and cash flows lower …
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 …