Financial Framework for Global Investment and Implications

The objective of this paper is to describe a valuation decision model for a firm in a multi -country environment. The paper extends the works of Myers, Myers and Pogue and Lev to include individual investment project decisions to the global marketplace. The model integrates the buy or builds decision, the location of production, distribution decision and tax effects into the capital investment decision of the firm. The model shows that a firm\u27s production decision (buy or build), the customer location and tax effects are interdependent. The model to optimize the value of the firm is a function of the interdependencies of the input and financing factors. This will require significant modification of the traditional theories used for the determination of a firm\u27s capital structure and cost of capital. This implies the current methodology used to learn finance needs to be modified. The paper also briefly discusses its implications on government policy for the economy and the firm

Citizen Police: Using the \u3cem\u3eQui Tam\u3c/em\u3e Provision of the False Claims Act to Promote Racial and Economic Integration in Housing

Economic and racial integration in housing remains elusive more than forty years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act. Recalcitrant municipal governments and exclusionary zoning ordinances have played a large role in maintaining and exacerbating segregated housing patterns. After discussing some of the persistent causes of segregated housing patterns, this Note presents a novel approach to enforcing the Fair Housing Act and the affirmatively furthering fair housing requirement on recipients of federal housing grants. This Note presents a citizen suit that emerged from the Southern District of New York in Anti-Discrimination Center v. Westchester County, where a private plaintiff successfully used the False Claims Act to enforce the Westchester County\u27s obligations to overcome impediments to racial integration. This Note concludes by arguing for specific reforms, regional coordination, and inclusionary zoning policies that recipients of federal funds should adopt as part of a truly integrated fair housing policy

Global Financial Model for the Value Chain

The objective of this paper is to describe how a valuation decision model for a firm in a multi-country environment can be used to determine the optimal value chain. The paper extends the initial work of Rainish and Mensz (2012). The paper examines how a global firm can optimize its value chain and how that chain will be affected when the value of various key variables change. Variables were selected (e.g. labor costs, transportation costs and transfer price tax rates) from recent studies by consulting firms Deloitte (2013) and the Boston Consulting Group (2014). The data used in the model was extrapolated from the financial statements of a publicly traded multinational corporation and modified slightly in order to preserve anonymity. The model conclusively demonstrates that a firm\u27s production decision to buy or build, the customer location and tax effects are interdependent and that the model to optimize the value of the firm and its value chain is a function of the interdependencies of the input and financing factors. The paper also briefly discusses its implications on government policy for the economy and the firm. The conclusions, recommendations and implications reached in this paper are generalizable and appropriated for developing best practices in value chain modeling global capital investment

Two-dimensional quantum interference contributions to the magnetoresistance of Nd{2-x}Ce{x}CuO{4-d} single crystals

The 2D weak localization effects at low temperatures T = (0.2-4.2)K have been investigated in nonsuperconducting sample Nd{1.88}Ce{0.12}CuO{4-d} and in the normal state of the superconducting sample Nd{1.82}Ce{0.18}CuO{4-d} for B>B_c2. The phase coherence time and the effective thickness $d$ of a conducting CuO_2 layer have been estimated by the fitting of 2D weak localization theory expressions to the magnetoresistivity data for the normal to plane and the in-plane magnetic fields.Comment: 5 pages, 4 postscript figure

Spin-resolved Quantum Interference in Graphene

The unusual electronic properties of single-layer graphene make it a promising material system for fundamental advances in physics, and an attractive platform for new device technologies. Graphene's spin transport properties are expected to be particularly interesting, with predictions for extremely long coherence times and intrinsic spin-polarized states at zero field. In order to test such predictions, it is necessary to measure the spin polarization of electrical currents in graphene. Here, we resolve spin transport directly from conductance features that are caused by quantum interference. These features split visibly in an in-plane magnetic field, similar to Zeeman splitting in atomic and quantum dot systems. The spin-polarized conductance features that are the subject of this work may, in the future, lead to the development of graphene devices incorporating interference-based spin filters.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures, plus supplementary (11 pages, 9 figures

Quantum Transport in Semiconductor Nanostructures

I. Introduction (Preface, Nanostructures in Si Inversion Layers, Nanostructures in GaAs-AlGaAs Heterostructures, Basic Properties). II. Diffusive and Quasi-Ballistic Transport (Classical Size Effects, Weak Localization, Conductance Fluctuations, Aharonov-Bohm Effect, Electron-Electron Interactions, Quantum Size Effects, Periodic Potential). III. Ballistic Transport (Conduction as a Transmission Problem, Quantum Point Contacts, Coherent Electron Focusing, Collimation, Junction Scattering, Tunneling). IV. Adiabatic Transport (Edge Channels and the Quantum Hall Effect, Selective Population and Detection of Edge Channels, Fractional Quantum Hall Effect, Aharonov-Bohm Effect in Strong Magnetic Fields, Magnetically Induced Band Structure).Comment: 111 pages including 109 figures; this review from 1991 has retained much of its usefulness, but it was not yet available electronicall

Citizen Police: Using the \u3cem\u3eQui Tam\u3c/em\u3e Provision of the False Claims Act to Promote Racial and Economic Integration in Housing

Economic and racial integration in housing remains elusive more than forty years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act. Recalcitrant municipal governments and exclusionary zoning ordinances have played a large role in maintaining and exacerbating segregated housing patterns. After discussing some of the persistent causes of segregated housing patterns, this Note presents a novel approach to enforcing the Fair Housing Act and the affirmatively furthering fair housing requirement on recipients of federal housing grants. This Note presents a citizen suit that emerged from the Southern District of New York in Anti-Discrimination Center v. Westchester County, where a private plaintiff successfully used the False Claims Act to enforce the Westchester County\u27s obligations to overcome impediments to racial integration. This Note concludes by arguing for specific reforms, regional coordination, and inclusionary zoning policies that recipients of federal funds should adopt as part of a truly integrated fair housing policy

14 Monolithic Wavelength Converters: Many-Body Effects and Saturation Analysis

Wavelength converters are a novel class of photonic integrated circuits that is crucial for multiwavelength fiber-optic communication networks [1]. Such converters switch the flow of information from one wavelength to another. We present here the simulation and analysis of an optoelectronic InP-base