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Economics of Education. Private Rates of Return from Investment in Japan

Economics of Education. Private Rates of Return from Investment in Japan
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Economic rates of return: an extension

Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 2001
Abstract This paper extends the cash-based rate of return models of Ijiri, 1978 , Salamon, 1982 by allowing two classes of assets and three classes of sources of funds. The use of debt as a source of funds permits a return on equity calculation.
Kirsten M. Ely, Bruce L. Miller
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Economic efficiency, antitrust and rate-of-return

Review of Industrial Organization, 1990
This paper examines the economic consequences of using excessive rates-of-return to detect and prosecute cartels. We find that this policy leads to inefficient factor utilization, but always increases output and welfare. The rate-of-return policy may yield greater social gains than a welfare-based antitrust policy.
John P. Formby, W. James Smith, Paul D. Thistle   +2 more
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Estimation of the Economic Rate of Return for Industrial Companies

The Journal of Business, 1989
The estimated rate of return in any investment is the discount rate that equates the present value of its expected net revenue stream to its initial outlay. Despite its importance, there are no agreed-on methods of estimating its past average values for a given company, nor are there any extensive data for different industries.
Reuel Shinnar, Ofer Dressler, C. A. Feng, Alan I. Avidan   +3 more
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Economic Profitability and the Accounting Rate of Return

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
The internal rate of return (IRR) is a widely used benchmark for assessing the reliability of the accounting rate of return (ROA) as a measure of economic profitability. We turn this reasoning process on its head by demonstrating that a suitable (weighted average) aggregation of ROAs better captures what is generally meant by economic profitability ...
Carlo Alberto Magni, Ken V. Peasnell
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Technical Note: Economic Rates of Return and Investment Analysis

The Engineering Economist, 2014
This article shows that a given series of single-period economic rates of return can be aggregated into either an economic average internal rate of return or a modified internal rate of return, depending upon the aggregation process (weighted average or geometric mean) and on the use of traditional economic depreciation to determine capital values for ...
Peter J. Barry, Lindon J. Robison
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Accounting Rate of Return vs. Economic Rate of Return

Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, 1974
The accounting rate of return (ARR) has traditionally been used as a surrogate for the economic rate of return (IRR) in evaluating the effectiveness of managements’ capital investment decisions. Over the years, some question has been raised as to the validity of using the ARR as an approximation of the IRR.
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Economic and Accounting Rates of Return A Statistical Model

Accounting and Business Research, 1991
Abstract This paper develops a number of statistical procedures than can be used to determine whether a firm's ex post accounting rate of return (ARR) is likely to provide guidance as to the economic return the firm will earn over its remaining life.
Gary Kelly, Mark Tippett
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Rate of Return to the Ph.D. in Economics

ILR Review, 1971
Presents an assessment of the economic value of the investment in a doctor of philosophy in economics. Benefits of the costs of attending school; Rates of return. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)
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WHY STUDY ECONOMICS? THE PRIVATE RATE OF RETURN TO AN ECONOMICS DEGREE

Economic Papers: A journal of applied economics and policy, 2004
This paper considers the implications of the major changes in the labour market for economists over the past twenty years with respect to the private rate of return to investment in an Economics degree. The paper presents estimates based on Census data for 1986, 1991, 1996, and 2001, which show that the private rate of return to the degree has risen ...
Philip Lewis, Anne Daly, Don Fleming
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