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Recently strategic alliance between business firms has become prevalent to overcome increasing competitive threats and to supplement resource limitation of individual firms.
Young Sik Shin, Kyoung Cheon Cha
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Discount rate variation is the central organizing question of current asset pricing research. I survey facts, theories and applications. We thought returns were uncorrelated over time, so variation in price-dividend ratios was due to variation in expected cashflows. Now it seems all price-dividend variation corresponds to discount-rate variation.
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Better Value for Money (VFM) is a key reason The Government opts for Public-Private Partnership (PPP) schemes in infrastructure project delivery.
Andreas Wibowo
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High discount rates by private actors undermine climate change adaptation policies
Adaptation requires investing now to avoid future damages, and thus adaptation is shaped by discount rates. Although the role of social discount rates in climate policy design has been well documented, the role of private discount rates has been ignored.
Francisco Alpizar +3 more
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Very Long-Run Discount Rates * [PDF]
AbstractWe estimate how households trade off immediate costs and uncertain future benefits that occur in the very long run, 100 or more years away. We exploit a unique feature of housing markets in the United Kingdom and Singapore, where residential property ownership takes the form of either leaseholds or freeholds.
Giglio, Stefano +2 more
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With a great reduction in the cost of rooftop photovoltaic systems (PVs), many new business models of PVs and the behind-the-meter scheme (BTMS) have been launched, especially the solar power purchase agreement (SPPA).
Chawin Prapanukool, Surachai Chaitusaney
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Using the stated preference method for the calculation of social discount rate [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to build the stated preference method into the social discount rate methodology. The first part of the paper presents the results of a survey about stated time preferences through pair-choice decision situations for various ...
Tabi, Andrea, Andrea Tabi
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‘Guide and Prejudice’— How Argonautes recognize targets across domains of life
Argonaute proteins use short nucleic‐acid guides to locate and regulate specific targets across all domains of life. Despite striking diversity—from human gene silencing to bacterial immune defence—all Argonautes share a conserved three‐stage recognition logic: guide‐directed sampling, progressive target pairing with a conformational checkpoint and ...
Jack P. K. Bravo
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Accommodating energy price volatility in life cycle cost analysis of asphalt pavements
Energy price is related to more than half of the total life cycle cost of asphalt pavements. Furthermore, the fluctuation related to price of energy has been much higher than the general inflation and interest rate.
Iman Mirzadeh, Bjorn Birgisson
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Drug resistance limits treatment success in a subset of lung cancers driven by ROS1 gene alterations. Using patient‐derived cells and computer simulations, we studied three key mutations and how they affect five targeted drugs. The mutations reduced drug effectiveness in different ways by altering protein structure and behavior.
Farhan Ul Haq +8 more
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