Indicators of efficiency and economic feasibility in two irrigatedfarms located in the Linares area (35º51' S. lat. and 71º35'W. long.), Maule Region, Chile, were estimated. The farms areassociated to PROLECHE S.A., an enterprise formed with financialsupport of the Development Corporation of...

Profitability and economic efficiency indicators of apple (Malusdomestica L.) cv. Gala production of a farm located in theLinares area (35°51' S lat, 71°35' W long), Maule Region,Chile, were estimated. Technical parameters of the orchard wereobtained from historical farm records for different...

Baigiamajame magistro darbe nagrinėjami tarptautiniame versle veikiančių įmonių vertinimo ypatumai ir pasiūlomas tinkamiausias metodas, tokioms įmonėms vertinti. Pirmoje darbo dalyje yra analizuojami tarptautinio verslo ypatumai, išskiriant politinę ir valiutų kursų svyravimo...

Darbe analizuojama AB „Pieno žvaigždės“ įmonės vertė. Nagrinėjama problema – ar įmonės akcijų rinkos kaina atitinka tikrąją įmonės vertę. Darbe atlikta pagrindinių vertės nustatymo metodų palyginamoji analizė. AB „Pieno žvaigždės“ vertes nustatymui pasirinkti du...

This case requires a detailed analysis of impairments of both long-lived assets and goodwill for First Motors Corporation, a fictitious automobile company. By integrating multiple issues into this case, students are presented with some of the complexities and interrelationships that are seen in...

Although theories in both evolutionary biology and economics predict that an individual’s health should be associated with the individual’s time preference, no prior study has been done to empirically support or refute such predictions. By collecting detailed measures of health, time...

This dissertation, which consists of three essays, studies online auctions boththeoretically and empirically.The first essay studies a special online auction format used by eBay, “Buy-It-Now” (BIN) auctions, in which bidders are allowed to buy the item at a fixed BINprice set by the seller...

Previous work in experimental economics reveals specific differences in economic behavior, especially reciprocity and free-riding behavior, across cultures. We expand the possible pallet of cross-cultural behavioral differences that may exist. We hypothesize that different kinds of strategic...

This thesis contains four essays which are all from the broader field of insurance economics. The chapters can be read independently, although there is a certain connection between the articles. Chapter 2, which deals with moral hazard, and chapter 3, which is on oligopolistic models in the...

Traditional inventory models focus on risk-neutral decision makers, i.e., characterizing replenishment strategies that maximize expected total profit, or equivalently, minimize expected total cost over a planning horizon. In this paper, we propose a framework for incorporating risk aversion in...