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, 2013 [Excerpt] Much public attention has focused on higher education for the growing debt burdens that students are amassing, the steadily increasing tuition levels, and their impact that these debt burdens, on students’ access to higher education and ...
Ehrenberg, Ronald G, Milton, Ross T
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A Theory of Debt Based on the Inalienability of Human Capital
, 1991 Consider an entrepreneur who needs to raise funds from an investor, but cannot commit not to withdraw his human capital from the project. The possibility of a default or quit puts an upper bound on the total future indebtedness from the entrepreneur to ...
O. Hart, John. Moore
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Debt Revenue and the Sustainability of Public Debt
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2022 While public debt has risen in the last two decades, the return that it offers to investors has fallen, especially relative to the return on private investment. This creates a revenue for the government as the supplier of the special services offered by public bonds, which include storage of value, safety, liquidity, and reprieve from repression.
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From Diversity to Confusion? The Challenge of Biodiversity Footprint Quantification
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study documents a significant disagreement between the biodiversity footprints of three major providers. This disagreement mainly stems from fundamental disagreement on the underlying methods and data (measurement), while providers agree to a large part on which firm operations contribute to a loss in biodiversity and how they are ...
Raphaela Roeder, Sebastian Utz
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Restructuring Venezuela\u27s Debt Using Pari Passu [PDF]
, 2017 Given the depth of Venezuela\u27s economic crisis, many fear that the government and the state-owned oil company Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A. ( PDVSA ) are on the brink of insolvency.
Fayyad, Khaled, Lyratzakis, Dimitrios
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Corporate Taxation and Investment: The Case of the Split Rate Corporate Tax System in Macedonia
Economic Analysis, 2018 The majority of experts agree that taxes are distortionary in nature. This is relatively true for all of the different groups of taxes, but for the corporate taxes is exceptionallyobvious.
Ilija Gruevski, Stevan Gaber
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Debt-Prone Bugs: Technical Debt in Software Maintenance [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 Fixing bugs is an important phase in software development and maintenance. In practice, the process of bug fixing may conflict with the release schedule. Such confliction leads to a trade-off between software quality and release schedule, which is known as the technical debt metaphor.
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We utilize a rich dataset of manufacturing firms to investigate the heterogeneous effects of ISO 14001 on the financial performance of certified firms. We employ machine learning techniques, specifically causal tree and causal forest, to uncover these effects. Our findings reveal consistently positive average effects of ISO 14001 certification
Xiaoliu Xu, Abdoul G. Sam
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Student Debt and the Class of 2008 [PDF]
, 2009 Analyzes state-by-state trends in the average debt of 2008 graduates and percentages of graduates with debt. Lists high- and low-debt states and campuses.
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Does high public debt consistently stifle economic growth? A critique of Reinhart and Rogoff
, 2014 Herndon, Ash and Pollin replicate Reinhart and Rogoff and find that coding errors, selective exclusion of available data, and unconventional weighting of summary statistics lead to serious errors that inaccurately represent the relationship between ...
Thomas C. Herndon, M. Ash, R. Pollin
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