British owners of Croatian vacation homes are selling even at reduced prices, she said, because the exchange rate of euros to pounds sterling makes it advantageous to convert assets back to British currency.
However, this OLS estimator suffers from not accounting for firm-specific time-invariant characteristics that are not measured in micro-level surveys (e.g. an advantageous location, firm-specific assets such as patent ownership, or other firm idiosyncrasies).
In some cases, it might be advantageous to keep some groups of assets together, or have many rules within one behaviour especially if it will not be reused elsewhere in the future.
In some instances, Mr. Kess said, it may be advantageous for affluent people to give investment assets to a low-income relatives.
Clearly, Microsoft, having failed to advance in search, is aligning with the short-term objectives of Mr. Icahn to coerce Yahoo! into selling its core strategic search assets on terms that are highly advantageous to Microsoft, but disadvantageous to Yahoo! stockholders.
Mastering integration is a prerequisite for success, because much of the value in many acquisitions comes from combining China's advantageous cost position with the brand, technology and other assets of a Western business.
The Western capitals waited for the most advantageous moment to play this card — exposing the site — as a major asset in the struggle with Iran running up to the U.N. General Assembly session in late September.
The Troubled Asset Relief Program did make capital available to them on potentially advantageous terms, but taking that capital might have signaled that management thought there was a deeper problem.
Like many union leaders, she said Citizens United was far more advantageous to corporations than unions because corporations have trillions of dollars in assets at their disposal.
However, for many investors these items are chicken feed compared with the tax savings they'll realize from the reduction in the capital gains holding period: For assets sold during 1998, the holding period for the most advantageous capital gains rate has been shortened to 12 months from 18 months.
Many Yahoo investors want some sort of tax-advantageous sell off of the assets so they can get a pop and get out of the stock, but Bartz knows full well Yahoo will lose at least a quarter of its value once Alibaba is gone.
