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The California energy crisis and cogeneration investment opportunities for office landlords

REA Auditado

by Gregory L. Hammond. Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2001. Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-89).

Tema: general: 

• Arte, Arquitectura y Artes Aplicadas›Arquitectura

Hemispheric water vapor balance during 1958

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by Alfred Renato Crisi. Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Meteorology, 1961. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 52-54).

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• Ciencias›Ciencias del Medio Ambiente

Essays in international finance

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This thesis is a collection of three empirical essays in international finance. The first chapter studies the transmission of monetary policy through the lending channel in a partially dollarized banking system. Taking advantage of the cross-sectional and time-series variation in the individual Mexican bank balance sheets, I find that the deposits and loans of banks with a larger share of foreign deposits are less sensitive to domestic monetary shocks, particularly for small banks. This result is reinforced when foreign monetary shocks and country risk shocks are controlled for.

Tema: general: 

• Negocios y Economía›Economía

Price competition in the top US domestic markets : revenues and yield premium

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Since 2000 the US airline industry has gone through a severe crisis which initiated important changes in the competitive environment of the industry. The economic downturn, the fierce competition between Legacy carriers, the rapid expansion of Low Cost carriers, the soaring fuel prices and the 9/11 attacks are some of the reasons that put many US airlines into a financial crisis. Many of the traditional major US airlines were forced into bankruptcy during the first five years of the decade.

Tema: general: 

• Ingeniería y Ciencias Aplicadas›Ingeniería›Ingeniería Civil y Ciencia de los Materiales

Water+works : a new ecological infrastructure

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With the global water crisis as catalyst, Water+Works acts as a model for a localized water initiative that will mitigate flooding and provide a freshwater resource in times of crisis, while enriching urban ecosystems and creating a vibrant recreational amenity for a new civic public. The new typology creates a gradual transition from land to water to contend with sea level rise and increased storm surge flooding.

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• Arte, Arquitectura y Artes Aplicadas›Arquitectura

ReHABit : claiming endangered structures in Washington DC to rethink subsidized housing

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There is an affordable housing crisis today in Washington D.C. that is the result of a uniquely complicated history of a capital city and a current economic boom. This thesis responds to that crisis by proposing a new program of subsidized housing that differs from the historically large scale, myopic solutions of the last century by attempting to claim under-used buildings in Washington that have the potential to re-invigorate the city. Endangered structures throughout Washington sit dormant while inherently imbued with power.

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• Arte, Arquitectura y Artes Aplicadas›Arquitectura

Real estate private equity : market impacts on investment strategies and compositions of opportunity funds

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Market forces continually change the landscape of the real estate private equity ("REPE") industry. In the current market, robust capital raising and the emergence of new funds in REPE suggest increasing competition to place capital while the credit crisis has marked the end of an era for cheap debt that was previously used by opportunity funds to enhance returns.

Tema: general: 

• Arte, Arquitectura y Artes Aplicadas›Arquitectura

Supply chain disruptions : managing risks vs. managing crises

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This thesis looks at two back-to-back disruptive supply chain events, one due to a sole-supplier's bankruptcy and the other caused by Hurricane Rita, that occurred at a specialty chemical company, and uses these examples to demonstrate how managing crises is more costly than managing risks. In examining the events surrounding the sole-supplier bankruptcy, managing a crisis cost this specialty chemical company 45% more money than managing a risk. Through the findings of these two disruptive events, a framework, the Eye of Providence, is created to manage supply chain risks.

Tema: general: 

• Ingeniería y Ciencias Aplicadas›Ingeniería

Re-imaging the knowledge factory : an alternative role for Attica's educational institution

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Point of departure for this thesis is a concern regarding educational institutions' current state and the dialectic that it suggests with the city within which they reside. US universities and specifically MIT are used as case studies to depict the contemporary conditions that characterize research and education and their impact in their physical, economic and social context. Last, using as a test-field the city of Eleusina in Greece, this proposal aims to destruct the accumulated and concentrated value embedded in the knowledge economies of universities.

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• Arte, Arquitectura y Artes Aplicadas›Arquitectura

Essays in development economics

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(cont.) social activities. These results are unlikely to be driven by omitted environmental variables: social violence increases fastest where participation in Koran study also increases the fastest, and this is not true for state or industrial violence. Religious intensity is more strongly linked with social violence in regions that are more economically distressed. Credit availability mitigates this effect. These results support the ex-post social insurance model of religious intensity. High marginal utilities during economic distress increase incentives to enact sanctions.

Tema: general: 

• Negocios y Economía›Economía