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Invest Now, Drink Later, Spend Never: The Mental Accounting of Delayed Consumption
2006
Social Science Research Network
Monetary transactions in which consumption is temporally separated from purchase naturally lend themselves to multiple frames and to alternative accounting schemes, which nonetheless maintain a modicum ...
We investigate some of the relevant accounting rules, and find that advanced purchases (e.g., a case of wine) are typically treated as "investments" rather than spending. ...
In the present work, we focus on how people represent the value of items as a result of alternative ways in which such value can be construed. ...
doi:10.2139/ssrn.901830
fatcat:4nydql4shjfexbijwijye5op6e
Invest now, drink later, spend never: On the mental accounting of delayed consumption
2006
Journal of Economic Psychology
Monetary transactions in which consumption is temporally separated from purchase naturally lend themselves to multiple frames and to alternative accounting schemes, which nonetheless maintain a modicum ...
We investigate some of the relevant accounting rules, and find that advanced purchases (e.g., a case of wine) are typically treated as "investments" rather than spending. ...
In the present work, we focus on how people represent the value of items as a result of alternative ways in which such value can be construed. ...
doi:10.1016/j.joep.2006.05.008
fatcat:nk2us4ii7bbophx22medonblme
Investments in liberalised power markets
2008
International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems
.): The Risø International Energy Conference took place 23 -25 May 2005 and the aim of the conference was to present and discuss new developments and trends in energy technologies which may make major ...
contributions to sustainable energy developments in the coming decades. ...
Keeping this perspective in view biofuel technologies has been evaluated in terms of logistics of feed stock availability, existing processes, and policy framework. ...
doi:10.1016/j.ijepes.2007.06.029
fatcat:vsx7p75yoff5rpllf4qpgp24r4
What Does Norway Get Out of its Oil Fund, if Not More Strategic Infrastructure Investment?
2011
Social Science Research Network
But the experience of sovereign wealth funds in China, Singapore, and other countries has been that investing in domestic infrastructure serves to lower the cost of living and doing business, making the ...
This paper cites the debate that extends from US 19th-century institutional doctrine to the approach of long-time Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry President Yevgeny Primakov to illustrate the logic ...
Here in Norway, Erik Reinert's "reality economics" group has described this "other economic canon" as an alternative to today's more short-term bankers'-eye financial view of comparative advantage. ...
doi:10.2139/ssrn.1785668
fatcat:3klr63clezhrhosu6xk7kc2l24
Disciplining Investment Bankers, Disciplining the Economy: Wall Street's Institutional Culture of Crisis and the Downsizing of "Corporate America"
2009
American Anthropologist
leads to a deterioration of long-term shareholder value. ...
in particular to its “unlock- ing of hidden value in its assets” for shaseholders (Landler 1995). ...
doi:10.1111/j.1548-1433.2009.01111.x
fatcat:rfh4puvvdbdtrodtvstiwzxvcq
Versatility vs. retrofittability tradeoff in design of non-transport vessels
2018
Ocean Engineering
The evaluation model is based on a two-level decomposition of the planning horizon to handle temporal complexity, using scenario planning and Epoch-Era analysis (EEA) for long-term strategic considerations ...
The proposed model is applied to an offshore construction ship design case. ...
Step 5: Design alternative evaluation analysis The net present values (NPVs) from the first contract alone for the nine design alternatives are presented in Table 10 . ...
doi:10.1016/j.oceaneng.2018.08.057
fatcat:s5ar4u2zzjaq5jkppr5q6ucdyi
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)
[chapter]
2022
The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Fashion
TTIP is very much an investment agreement which facilitates cross-border investment and thereby also increases the discretionary powers of management to allocate work across borders. ...
In the following, I will briefly sketch the various channels of impact. Public-sector unions and their members are most directly in the focus of TTIP. ...
and the pursuit of alternative sets of values. ...
doi:10.5040/9781501365287.2872
fatcat:dmburdnc55fbti3igavy666hsq
What Should Be Our Human Capital Investment Policy?
1998
Fiscal studies
While its short-term effects are difficult to mea sure, its long-term value for improving the nation's infrastructure can not be gainsaid. ...
Moreover, the evaluation precedes the Department of Labor's emphasis on long-term training and the enactment of the 1992 JTPA amendments. ...
It is an activity of the W.E. Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corporation, which was established in 1932 to administer a fund set aside by the late Dr. W.E. ...
doi:10.1111/j.1475-5890.1998.tb00279.x
fatcat:x7oxra2jcbg33nm3kayvvbceza
THE EFFECT OF AGGREGATE INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY ON FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN NIGERIA: EVIDENCE FROM NARDL
2020
Economics & Law
The vital role of foreign direct investment has been widely studied and documented in the economic literature; however, the argument remains largely on identifying the main determinants of FDI to developing ...
The study recommends that the government should establish or strengthen the quality of institutional indicators and legal framework to assure confidence in the system to motivate Foreign Direct Investment ...
In Latin America, a long time is required for some programs to attain positive net present values if their benefits are sustained-for example, seven years for ProJoven (Program for Young People) in Peru ...
doi:10.37708/el.swu.v2i2.1
fatcat:efg3zlu3z5cx3cuhrwck3f2gyq
Algeria: Selected Issues
2005
IMF Staff Country Reports
It discusses alternative fiscal guidelines both for short-term and long-term policy formulation, and presents simulations for the sustainable long-run use of hydrocarbon revenues in Algeria under alternative ...
It discusses alternative fiscal guidelines both for short-term and long-term policy formulation, and presents simulations for the sustainable long-run use of hydrocarbon revenues in Algeria under alternative ...
(imported) good in terms of foreign currency. ...
doi:10.5089/9781451811476.002
fatcat:wb5suvfxbzdr5kcyezmyxsx7he
Effects of Production of Woody Pellets in the Southeastern United States on the Sustainable Development Goals
2021
Sustainability
Wood-based pellets are produced in the southeastern United States (SE US) and shipped to Europe for the generation of heat and power. ...
Primary strengths of the pellet supply chain in the SE US are the provisioning of employment in depressed rural areas and the displacement of fossil fuels. ...
Acknowledgments: We thank Matthew Langholtz, Thomas Schuler, and three anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on prior versions of this manuscript. ...
doi:10.3390/su13020821
fatcat:xw4pwnrckvhchkb46pkv3fcofq
D1.1 Linkages between agricultural trade, markets, investments, environmental sustainability and human well-being
2022
Zenodo
This in turn calls for more holistic perspectives and analyses, which blend novel insights into local and on-the-ground perspectives, including those of the whole range of stakeholders (e.g., as part of ...
We conclude that only the combination of local and macro-perspectives is likely to provide a more convincing assessment of transboundary impacts of trade on sustainable development and human rights, and ...
Investments in agri-food firms by large asset management firms have the potential to contribute to the already concentrated market power in the agri-food system (Clapp 2019) . ...
doi:10.5281/zenodo.6410883
fatcat:guh2qebywncfphk7gm347x7dk4
Three Episodes of Financial Fragility in Norway Since the 1890s
2003
Social Science Research Network
For investment projects with a long horizon it is reasonable to argue that investors did not expect the real long-term interest rate to deviate much from the nominal long-term interest rate before WW1. ...
its role in the provision of long-term credit to non-financial companies. ...
All volumes are available on request from the BIS and are also on our website www.bis.org.
Previous volumes in this series ...
doi:10.2139/ssrn.901204
fatcat:eq6b44mtbfhjza6iy4xgf3xlkq
The Role of the Start-Up Aid for Young Farmers in the Adoption of Innovative Agricultural Activities: The Case of Aloe Vera
2021
Agriculture
In this study, taking into consideration the embedded risk and uncertainty, we utilise a stochastic version of the Net Present Value (NPV) analysis, a common discount cash flows method to detect the desirability ...
of an investment. ...
The most common way to evaluate an investment opportunity is to use traditional discounted cash flow methods, such as the Net Present Value (NPV). ...
doi:10.3390/agriculture11040349
doaj:128a59215a7b4bdb8b2b0e1598c28998
fatcat:nh2au6tekvamnjbbhjase2go4u
Qatar: 2010 Article IV Consultation-Staff Report; Staff Statement and Supplement; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Qatar
2011
IMF Staff Country Reports
stress of an increase in NPLs to 20 percent and a drop in the value of investments by 50 percent. ...
Qatar witnessed a rapid transformation in the last 15 years, with a massive investment in infrastructure as part of its long term strategy. ...
doi:10.5089/9781455219957.002
fatcat:4oqffitcofagvk65oosjrtlmuu
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