The influence of property, plant and equipment (Fixed Assets) and the quality of infrastructure on return was analyzed in the hospitality industry in emerging markets. The analysis unit was Colombia, a member of the CIVETS emerging market group. Financial healthwas determined by the relationships among return on fixed assets ratio,fixed assets net worth and fixed assets turnover ratios. Besides...

Knowledge Networks selected the sample to accommodate the “none or low”, “some” and “high” retirement asset requirements based on its Financial Services profile data. Because of the economic downturn, it was possible that a person’s level of assets could have changed between the time it was collected in the Financial Services profile and the fielding of the main survey. Therefore current level ...

This paper analyzes the role that health status plays in household portfolio decisions using data from the first wave of the Health and Retirement Study. The results indicate that health is a significant predictor of both the probability of owning different types of financial assets and the share of financial wealth held in each asset category. Households in poor health are less likely to hold ...

The purpose of this research is to predict stock returns and the purpose of the least squares regression and neural network approach is used. The potential financial ratios based on the historical cost and financial ratios based on Adjusted Cost predict stock returns are investigated. Independent variables and the dependent variable in this study and financial ratios and stock returns is for th...

This paper analyzes the role that health status plays in household portfolio decisions using data from the Health and Retirement Study. The results indicate that health is a significant predictor of both the probability of owning different types of financial assets and the share of financial wealth held in each asset category. Households in poor health are less likely to hold risky financial as...

This paper analyzes the role that health status plays in household portfolio decisions using data from the first wave of the Health and Retirement Study. The results indicate that health is a significant predictor of both the probability of owning different types of financial assets and the share of financial wealth held in each asset category. Households in poor health are less likely to hold ...

This paper studies the financing of durable assets in a model with collateral constraints due to limited enforcement. Durability affects the ease of financing: we show that more durable assets require larger down payments of internal funds per unit of capital making them harder to finance, because durability raises the price of an asset and hence the overall financing need more than its collate...

We consider a stochastic financial exchange economy with a finite dateevent tree representing time and uncertainty and a nominal financial structure with possibly long-term assets. We exhibit a sufficient condition under which the payoff matrix and the full payoff matrix have the same rank. This generalizes previous results of Angeloni-Cornet and Magill-Quinzii involving only short-term assets....