I n early 1994, IPSCO steel corporation, which had been negotiating with several states regarding the location of a new steel mill, was offered a $75.6 million package of incentives by the State of Iowa if the company located its plant along the Mississippi River in Musca-tine County, Iowa. The package included several new incentives available only in the " Quality Jobs Enterprise Zone " create...

This thesis comprises of three essays. The first essay is titled ‘Do Acquiring Firms Manage Earnings?’ and is co-authored with Professor Anand M. Vijh. The second essay is titled ‘Do Firms Have a Target Leverage? Evidence from Credit Markets’ and is joint work with Professors Anand M. Vijh and Redouane Elkamhi. The third is essay is single authored and titled ‘Bondholder Wealth Effects of Fraud...

Abstract This paper investigates the consequences of COVID-19 crisis on firms’ performance and financial vulnerability. Exploiting longitudinal firm-level data from World Bank’s “Enterprise Surveys follow-up COVID-19” for 20 European countries, we assess whether green management quality pre-pandemic credit access difficulties affect ability to withstand negative impact pandemic. Our results ind...

Many factors innuence the performance of a learned classiier. In this paper we study diier-ent methods of measuring performance based on a uniied set of cost models and the eeects of training class distribution with respect to these models. Observations from these eeects help us devise a distributed multi-classiier meta-learning approach to learn in domains with skewed class distributions, non-...

this study empirically examines whether managers manipulate reported income through the timing of sales of long-lived assets and investments. several empirical implications of the income-smoothing and debt-equity hypothesis in the context of asset sales were tested. the findings are consistent with the timing of asset sales by managers so that the recognized accounting income from these sales s...

This article examines the effect of microcredit on performance micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Amhara National Regional State, Ethiopia. A total 340 MSEs were randomly selected, a survey method was used. Average Sales volume used to measure performances MSEs. The findings suggested that majority Ethiopia engaged manufacturing urban agriculture sectors with share 48.53% 26.76% total, respe...

We apply Slow Feature Analysis (SFA) to image sequences generated from natural images using a range of spatial transformations. An analysis of the resulting receptive fields shows that they have a rich spectrum of invariances and share many properties with complex and hypercomplex cells of the primary visual cortex. Furthermore, the dependence of the solutions on the statistics of the transform...

This paper evaluates a more integrated approach of regulation when doing international comparisons and represents the first cross-country study in the South American region in which quality and weather variables have been included in the analysis. A total of 82 electricity distribution firms operating in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru have been analysed for the period 1998-2008. Stochastic f...

Issuance of the procuration to sell together with credit agreement is basically contrary Article 20 Paragraph (2) Mortgage Right Law. In elucidation Law it explained that in event a sale through public auction not expected produce highest price, by deviating from principle referred (1) given possibility carrying out execution private sales, provided this agreed upon grantor and holder Right, co...

The Influence of Trust, Torporate Image, and Sales Promotion on Customers’ Satisfaction the Pakraman Guwang Village Credit Institution in Gianyar Regency. This study aims to identify influence trust, corporate image, sales promation customers’ satisfaction institution Sukawati District, Primary data were obtained through intervews observation. Using Stuctural Equation Modeling (SEM), which incl...