"Municipal Inducements". The New Mexico Commercial and Industrial Project Revenue Bond Act

Municipal Bond Risk Ratings

Thesis Statement In recent years, the legitimacy of bond ratings given by top rating agencies has been under extreme scrutiny by the general public and the government. The faith and trust that the public puts into credit rating agencies such as Standard & Poor's, Moody's, and Fitch is based on the notion that they will publically assign unbiased risk ratings which truly reflect the creditworthi...

New Mexico Tech Currency Markets Modeling Project

An overview of the ongoing Currency Markets Modeling Project at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech) is presented. The overall model is described, and this paper is an introduction to an ongoing interdisciplinary modeling and simulation effort at the Institute for Complex Additive Systems Analysis at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (aka New Mexico Tech)....

the speech act of advice and the introvert/extrovert distinction among iranian efl university students

the aim of this study is to examine the difference between the introverts and extroverts in preferred advice-giving style. furthermore, it explores the difference between l1 (persian) and l2 (english) regarding the giving of advice for the extroverts and introverts separately. it investigates whether an extrovert or introvert gives advice in the same manner in his l1 (persian) and l2 (english) ...

Politically Feasible, Revenue Sufficient, and Economically Efficient Municipal Water Rates

Water rates are designed to meet multiple objectives, typically resulting in tradeoffs among the objectives of economic efficiency, revenue sufficiency, and related revenue stability. Standard theory of natural monopoly is extended here to explain why long-run marginal cost (LMC) can be greater than both average cost and short-run marginal cost (SMC) for municipal water utilities. The distincti...

The Commercial Space Act of 1997: Commercial Remote Sensing