Asset Revaluation and the Existential Politics of Climate Change

Asset Revaluation Regulation

GAAP mandates a variety of departures from historical cost asset valuation. Here we o¤er a simple model that leads to such variety, depending on regulatory objectives and the magnitude of various economic forces. The central feature of the model is entrepreneurial investment in an asset followed by private information that cannot be communicated. A lemons problem arises in the asset resale mark...

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...

Civil Society, Corporate Accountability and the Politics of Climate Change

Climate Change Politics in North America: The State of Play

tHIs RepoRt Contains papers from a two-day conference on Climate Change Politics in North America, organized at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, May 18-19, 2006. The conference papers and participants endeavored to critically examine key aspects and issues of North American politics and policymaking related to climate change. In 1992, 172 of the world’s governments gathered...

Climate Change and the Challenges of Quantitative Assessment of Urban Climate Change: A Case Study in Tehran Metropolis

Background and Aim: Climate change on the earth is changing faster than ever before in the history. Cities are highly vulnerable to this climate change. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate climate change in the metropolis of Tehran during the period 1991-2020 and help understand the limitations that cities may have in confronting climate change. Materials and Methods: This descri...