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Peace In Unity: 19th Century Irenic Motivations In European Unification, Robert Taft Keele
Peace In Unity: 19th Century Irenic Motivations In European Unification, Robert Taft Keele
Undergraduate Honors Theses
The Hauptargumenten of politicians and citizens concerning the advantages and disadvantages of the EU are almost exclusively economic or political in nature: lower tariffs; loss of monetary instruments; immigration; disenfranchisement; etc. The object of my thesis is to remind everyone, amid the flurry of speculation and uncertainty prevalent in Europe since the French rejection of the EU constitution, that a major benefit of the European integration is peace, on a continent that has been ravaged by war for centuries. I prove that the establishment of peace was a major element in European unification by confirming links between peace movements and …
On Valuing Negative Cash Flows Related To Contamination, Asset Removal, Or Functional Obsolescence, Hal B. Heaton
On Valuing Negative Cash Flows Related To Contamination, Asset Removal, Or Functional Obsolescence, Hal B. Heaton
Faculty Publications
Appraisers are frequently faced with having to value future expected negative cash flows. This article will demonstrate that valuing negative cash flows requires a different approach from valuing positive cash flows. The concepts of valuing remediation costs, asset removal costs, and other types of functional obsolescence will be used to illustrate this concept.
Pricing In The New Economy: Lessons From The Period Of The E-Commerce Bubble, Phillip J. Bryson
Pricing In The New Economy: Lessons From The Period Of The E-Commerce Bubble, Phillip J. Bryson
Faculty Publications
The New Economy increased U.S. productivity sharply after 1995. The latest economics literature on the topic, which generally forecasts a secure future for the information economy, is reviewed. The down side of the New Economy were the strategies, especially the pricing strategies of NASDAQ and virtual firms. The critique of Michael Porter regarding the non-strategic price cutting common to those firms is reviewed. Traditional models by Sweezy and Baumol, which focus on pricing in imperfectly competitive industries, are applied to provide a cogent theory as to why those firms made mistakes that were once viewed as common for neophyte industries.