(Rideau). More than 3‚000 death row inmates within the United States’ penal system will spend the remainder of their days in a similar manner; locked away from society in their six by nine cells‚ awaiting a gurney to take them on their final trip. The debate over capital punishment has long been discussed‚ with the only alternative being life imprisonment. According to TheSentecingProject.org‚ there are 159‚000 inmates serving life sentences without the chance of parole. Is there an alternative way for
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ALTERNATIVE MARKET STRUCTURES It is traditional to divide industries to categories according to the degree of competition that exists between the firms within the industry. There are four such categories. At one extreme is perfect competition‚ where there are many firms competing. Each firm is so small relative to the whole industry that it has no market power to influence price. It is a price taker. At the other extreme is monopoly‚ where there is just one firm in the industry‚ and hence no competition
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Capital Structure Decisions: Which Factors Are Reliably Important? Murray Z. Frank and Vidhan K. Goyal∗ This paper examines the relative importance of many factors in the capital structure decisions of publicly traded American firms from 1950 to 2003. The most reliable factors for explaining market leverage are: median industry leverage (+ effect on leverage)‚ market-to-book assets ratio (−)‚ tangibility (+)‚ profits (−)‚ log of assets (+)‚ and expected inflation (+). In addition‚ we find
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Capital Structure and Debt Structure* Joshua D. Rauh Kellogg School of Management and NBER Amir Sufi University of Chicago Booth School of Business and NBER February 2010 *We thank Doug Diamond‚ Anil Kashyap‚ Gordon Phillips‚ Michael Roberts‚ Toni Whited‚ Luigi Zingales‚ and seminar participants at Emory University‚ Georgetown University‚ Maastricht University‚ Rice University‚ Tilburg University‚ the University of California-Berkeley‚ the University of Chicago‚ the University of Colorado
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where there is just one firm in the industry‚ and hence no competition from within the industry. In the middle come monopolistic competition‚ which involves quite a lot of firms competing and where there is freedom for new firms to enter the industry‚ and oligopoly‚ which involves only a few firms and where entry of new firms is restricted. To distinguish more precisely between these four categories‚ the following must be considered: • How freely can firms enter the industry? Is entry free or
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funding sources‚ to add to their current funding mix. This is leading to a renewed interest in structured asset-backed financing solutions‚ designed to give treasurers the opportunity to rebalance and re-engineer their capital structures by offering well-priced‚ longer maturity alternatives. By securing a funding solution on the assets already owned by the company‚ or assets that will be essential to the business‚ it is possible to rebalance pricing models in a company’s favour‚ as these solutions allow
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Capital Structure Stewart C. Myers The Journal of Economic Perspectives‚ Vol. 15‚ No. 2. (Spring‚ 2001)‚ pp. 81-102. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0895-3309%28200121%2915%3A2%3C81%3ACS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-D The Journal of Economic Perspectives is currently published by American Economic Association. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR ’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at http://www.jstor.org/about/terms.html. JSTOR ’s Terms and Conditions of Use
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The electronic private automatic branch exchange (EPABX) is equipment that has made day-to-day working in the offices much simpler‚ especially in the area of communication. The EPABX may be defined as a switching system that makes available both internal and external stitching functions of any organisation. The selection of an EPBAX is a difficult task and requires deep knowledge of traffic pattern of the office. By using an EPABX both the internal and external needs of the organisation are
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Question 5: Evaluate the Put-Warrant/Convertible Bond proposal. Does it solve Intel’s capital structure dilemma? What arguments might be made in favor of it? Intel’s capital structure dilemma was that it was holding too much cash on hand. Eventually‚ there were three available strategies or alternatives that Intel could undertake in terms of cash disbursement policies. First‚ it could continue or expand its market-repurchase program. Secondly‚ Intel could declare dividends to its shareholders
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Journal of Finance and Investment Analysis‚ vol.1‚ no.2‚ 2012‚ 61-81 ISSN: 2241-0988 (print version)‚ 2241-0996 (online) International Scientific Press‚ 2012 Topic: capital structure determinants of quoted firms in Nigeria and lessons for corporate financing decisions Michael Nwidobie Barine1 Abstract Financial arrangements determine how and the amount of financing that can be obtained from fund providers. An optimal allocation between equity and debt is determined by the trade-off between
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