Iowa's Highways, 1950

A brief history of Iowa highways.

Primary Road Bonds, 1950

A brief overview of Iowa's road bonds.

Supplemental Pre-Location Report, U.S. 18, Mason City Bypass I-35 to Rudd : Cerro Gordo and Floyd Counties, 1992

The purpose of this report is to compile and update the prior studies in order to select viable alternatives for inclusion in the Environmental Assessment to be prepared for this project.

How do Small Players Deduce Beliefs about Uncertainty? A Look at Texas Shale Oil Investments

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2016-08

Executive summary -- 2015 Corridor Management Plan - The Iowa Great River Road

The 2015 Corridor Management Plan for the Iowa Great River Road is modeled after similar plans for other National Scenic Byways: it is a dynamic, written document that describes the broad range of goals, objectives, policies, programs, projects and activities which can assist with protecting the intrinsic resources of a byway; interpreting the engaging stories of the byway; and promoting and presenting the byway with services and amenities to meet the needs and expectations of the traveling public.

Essays on Market Frictions and Securitization

This dissertation provides a novel theory of securitization based on intermediaries minimizing the moral hazard that insiders can misuse assets held on-balance sheet. The model predicts how intermediaries finance different assets. Under deposit funding, the moral hazard is greatest for low-risk assets that yield sizable returns in bad states of nature; under securitization, it is greatest for high-risk assets that require high guarantees and large reserves. Intermediaries thus securitize low-risk assets. In an extension, I identify a novel channel through which government bailouts exacerbate the moral hazard and reduce total investment irrespective of the funding mode. This adverse effect is stronger under deposit funding, implying that intermediaries finance more risky assets off-balance sheet. The dissertation discusses the implications of different forms of guarantees. With explicit guarantees, banks securitize assets with either low information-intensity or low risk. By contrast, with implicit guarantees, banks only securitize assets with high information-intensity and low risk. Two extensions to the benchmark static and dynamic models are discussed. First, an extension to the static model studies the optimality of tranching versus securitization with guarantees. Tranching eliminates agency costs but worsens adverse selection, while securitization with guarantees does the opposite. When the quality of underlying assets in a certain security market is sufficiently heterogeneous, and when the highest quality assets are perceived to be sufficiently safe, securitization with guarantees dominates tranching. Second, in an extension to the dynamic setting, the moral hazard of misusing assets held on-balance sheet naturally gives rise to the moral hazard of weak ex-post monitoring in securitization. The use of guarantees reduces the dependence of banks' ex-post payoffs on monitoring efforts, thereby weakening monitoring incentives. The incentive to monitor under securitization with implicit guarantees is the weakest among all funding modes, as implicit guarantees allow banks to renege on their monitoring promises without being declared bankrupt and punished.

ECONOMIC PROFITABILITY OF THE BAKKEN, NORTH DAKOTA UNCONVENTIONAL OIL PLAYS BASED ON A TYPICAL WELL PERFORMANCE WITH CURRENT MARKET CONDITIONS

Increases in oil prices after the economic recession have been surprising for domestic oil production in the United States since the beginning of 2009. Not only did the conventional oil extraction increase, but unconventional oil production and exploration also improved greatly with the favorable economic conditions. This favorable economy encourages companies to invest in new reservoirs and technological developments. Recently, enhanced drilling techniques including hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling have been supporting the domestic economy by way of unconventional shale and tight oil from various U.S. locations. One of the main contributors to this oil boom is the unconventional oil production from the North Dakota Bakken field. Horizontal drilling has increased oil production in the Bakken field, but the economic issues of unconventional oil extraction are still debatable due to volatile oil prices, high decline rates of production, a limited production period, high production costs, and lack of transportation. The economic profitability and viability of the unconventional oil play in the North Dakota Bakken was tested with an economic analysis of average Bakken unconventional well features. Scenario analysis demonstrated that a typical North Dakota Bakken unconventional oil well is profitable and viable as shown by three financial metrics; net present value, internal rate of return, and break-even prices.

SME Policy and Competitiveness in Hungary

Small and medium-sized (SMEs) enterprises in Hungary account for 99.9% of all enterprises and for more than two thirds of employment. Since transformation started in 1989 they have been the only net makers of employment. In spite of such remarkable importance, results have been modest compared to the amount of Hungarian and foreign, mostly EU resources poured into the sector. Less than a sixth of SMEs are fast-growing and only a tiny minority of SMEs make use of bank credit. According to various indicators and in spite of bright spots, the SMEs context is problematic and SMEs features are often unfavourable and hardly competitive. In recent years the goal of upgrading SMEs and strengthening their contribution to the economy has acquired central position among policy goals and activity. Although progress has been made, the results are weak and in some cases drawbacks have happened. The paper starts from analysing the SMEs situation, reviews the main features of the recently implemented policy strategies, assesses whether these strategies are appropriate to address the situation, including the effects of the domestic and international crises, and considers whether the targets pursued are realistic and important, and the instruments considered in line with the targets

A beruházásgazdaságossági számítások gyakorlatban alkalmazott módszerei

A cikk 23 ország és a közép-kelet-európai régió vállalatai körében gyakran alkalmazott beruházásgazdaságossági módszerekről nyújt átfogó szakirodalmi áttekintést a vonatkozó külföldi kutatási eredmények feldolgozásával. A feldolgozott tanulmányok alapján két fontos megállapítás tehető az alkalmazott módszerekkel kapcsolatosan: az egyik, hogy az ország földrajzi elhelyezkedésétől függetlenül a vállalatok többsége kiszámítja a statikus megtérülési idő mutatóját, igaz, az nem dönthető el egyértelműen, hogy elsődleges vagy másodlagos mutatóként használják-e ezt a mutatószámot a beruházási döntéseknél. A másik, hogy az időtényezőt figyelembe vevő módszerek közül a nettójelenérték-számítás és a belsőkamatláb-keresés a két leggyakrabban alkalmazott módszer, a jövedelmezőségi index használata egy-két kivételtől eltekintve nem jellemző.

Audit report on Fremont County, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2015

Audit report on Fremont County, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2015

Audit report on Butler County, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2015

Audit report on Butler County, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2015

Reaudit report on the Bettendorf Community School District for the period July 1, 2013 through June 30, 2014

Reaudit report on the Bettendorf Community School District for the period July 1, 2013 through June 30, 2014

Report on a special investigation of the City of Corning Volunteer Fire Department for the period July 1, 2013 through April 30, 2015

Report on a special investigation of the City of Corning Volunteer Fire Department for the period July 1, 2013 through April 30, 2015

Audit report on Madison County, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2015

Audit report on Madison County, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2015