The study of memory for event duration in pigeons has, for the most part, centered on an unusual behavioral phenomenon and an interesting theoretical explanation for it. A typical experiment on memory for event duration involves trials initiated by a sample stimulus that is either short or long in duration (e.g., 2 vs. 10 sec of houselight) and that is later followed by the simultaneous present...

The oil company holds the investment opportunity to develop a delineated oilfield. The investment plan must be presented until a specific date or the oilfield rights return to the government. The firm considers a set of mutually exclusive alternatives of scale to exploit the oilfield. Larger scale means faster exploitation – increasing the present value of revenues, but also higher investment c...

Next generation network (NGN) phone company is handling telecommunication and media services in rural and sub-urban areas. In order to ease the replication process and to encourage entrepreneurship development through franchise package, ERP system needs to be deployed. Considering the widely available choices of ERP systems to date and the multi criteria decision making nature of selecting ERP,...

dh No. 71 1 The stories of Google and Segway certainly end differently. With a market capitalization of over $180 billion, Google is arguably the biggest success in the information technology (IT) industry in the last decade. The phrase google it has worked its way into everyday language and dictionaries. On the other hand, Segway remains a privately held company whose products are largely rele...

Corporate Governance, Capital Market Discipline and the Returns on Investment* by Klaus Gugler, Dennis C. Mueller and B. Burcin Yurtoglu We analyze the impact of corporate governance institutions, ownership structures and external capital market constraints on company returns on investment by using a sample of more than 19,000 companies from 61 countries across the world. We show that (1) of th...

More than 100 million Americans invest $25 trillion in mutual funds and exchange-traded (collectively, “funds”) regulated by the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “Act”), making predominant investment vehicle United States. Everyday investors rely on to save for retirement, pay college, seek financial security. In this way, demonstrate how “Wall Street” can connect with “Main improve people’s...

The Pension Fund of PT Pos Indonesia (Dapenpos) is considering cutting off all its stock from the portfolio and trying to find optimal increase funding ratio level. This research using Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) by Markowitz solve current issue faced company optimizing company’s portfolio, universe, modified company. optimization complying OJK regulation as well investment direction with con...