The government organizations grant incentives to promote green product consumption, improve green product quality, boost remanufacturing activities, etc. through various policies. The objective of this study is to highlight pros and cons of two incentive policies, namely (1) incentive on manufacturer’s R&D investment and (2) direct incentive to consumer based on greening level of the product on...

the main objective of this study was to investigate the economic efficiency of investment in sugar beet breeding research in iran. the required information including the value and cost of sugar beet production in 2010 and the budget allocated to the sugar beet breeding research were obtained from the office of statistics and information technology of ministry of jihad-e-agriculture and agricult...

The importance of managing the risk-return balance of information technology (IT) investments has become clearer than ever. Yet, quantitative assessment of IT investment risk and return based on financial measures remains a major challenge. Recently scholars have used event study analysis to measure the value created via IT investment, by examining the abnormal changes in shareholder wealth aro...

A Fuzzy Behavioral Portfolio model (FBPM) is proposed for security investment with insufficient market information and uncertain emotion influence on investment return and risk. Based on the general behavioral portfolio theory, trapezoidal fuzzy number is employed to characterize investment return and risk. Text emotion analysis based on emotional lexicons is introduced to obtain the market inv...

Dynamic asset allocation strategies that are continuously rebalanced so as to always keep a fixed constant proportion of wealth invested in the various assets at each point in time play a fundamental role in the theory of optimal portfolio strategies. In this paper we study the rate of return on investment, defined here as the net gain in wealth divided by the cumulative investment, for such in...

Several papers at this conference have stressed the favorable effect on economic growth of increases in business investment, especially investment in machinery and equipment. The authors of these papers have reminded us that such investment does more than increase the capital stock. Investment also embodies new technologies and may involve externalities that cause the national return to private...