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Economic Deregulation And Corporate Dividend Policy
… operating environment induced by economic deregulation from the 1970s-1990s. Specifically, I examine the impact of deregulation on the firm's propensity to pay dividends, dividend payout ratio, the sensitivity of corporate dividend policy to current and past earnings, changes in the …
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RNA Deregulation in Metastatic Breast Cancer
<p>Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed and second highest cause of cancer-related mortality in women, with the majority of deaths associated with metastatic spread of tumors to distal organs. The metastatic process involves multiple sequential steps including invasion of the surrounding …
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Two essays on depository institution deregulation
The first essay develops two sets of linear models of a depository institution under various competitive assumptions about deposit and loan markets. To evade an explicit interest rate ceiling, intermediaries pay implicit interest on deposits. The models show that the total rate under ceilings will …
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The economic effects of surface transport deregulation
Over the past two decades, the deregulation of surface transport at both national and international levels has gathered momentum, particularly within the United States and European Union. The structural and performance changes associated with transport deregulation generated substantial …
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The effects of deregulation on small market broadcasters.
… vieing for the same piece of spectrum. Deregulation may prove to be the undoing of the medium, not because of lack of space on the spectrum, but from the number of different media that are all competing for the same audience. If deregulation is the undoing of broadcasting as it has …
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Productivity performance of US passenger airlines since deregulation
… productivity performance since the airline deregulation in 1978, this research measures and compares productivity at both the US airline industry and individual carrier levels. Productivity is measured at the aggregate airline industry level in terms of multifactor productivity (MFP), the …
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Role of Electric Utility Companies in Economic Development Within Deregulation
… and if so, how might the trend of electric deregulation affect that relationship. The researcher reviewed the academic literature to determine that electric utilities do, in fact, participate in economic development and significantly contribute to economic growth. They participate in all …
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Deregulation, financial deepening and savings performance in Zambia: 1978-2006
This paper attempts to review the impact of financial reforms largely undertaken in the early 1990s on the financial sector of Zambia. In particular, it investigates the influence of the reforms on the depth of the financial sector. This analysis is made by means of simple monetary and financial …
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Productivity and competition in the U.S. trucking industry since deregulation
… on to present a framework for understanding how deregulation engendered changes in competition and productivity. Physical multifactor productivity (MFP) growth in the years 1979-1992 is found to average 1.6% p.a. for TL and 1.0% p.a. for LTL. After initial productivity stagnation, MFP growth from …
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Analysis of aircraft fleets of U.S. major airlines since deregulation
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1992.
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An analysis of the Cambridge condominium market after rent deregulation
… phenomenon of condominium conversions after rent deregulation and the findings indicate that less than 2 percent of the rent controlled units in 1994 were converted to condominiums during the period of 1995 through 1998. Most of the conversions and new construction of condominiums were in five of …
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The impact of German telecommunications deregulation on the industry structure
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1996.
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Solidarity, Global Restructuring and Deregulation: The Liverpool Dockers' Dispute 1995-98
… marked by economic restructuring and political deregulation. It does so by proposing three analytical categories: (1) economic restructuring and political regulatory processes, (2) trade union strategies and (3) workplace and community experience and popular historical memories. The thesis …
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Developmental Deregulation and Tumorigenesis Inhibition In 14-3-3Zeta Knockout Mouse
<p>Cancer is second leading cause of death in the United States. Improving cancer care through patient care, research, education and prevention not only saves lives, but reduces health care cost as well. Breast cancer is the most leading cause of cancer incidence and cancer related death in women …
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Multilevel Deregulation of Survival Mechanisms In Npm-Alk+ T-Cell Lymphoma
… <strong><em>We hypothesized that multilevel deregulation of survival mechanisms contributes to aberrant NPM-ALK and IGF-IR expression, which supports the survival and progression of NPM-ALK<sup>+</sup> ALCL. </em></strong></p>
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European deregulation: analysis of the future of European low cost carriers
… of the differences between the approaches to deregulation of the US and the EU policy makers are analysed, hence their repercussions on the low cost carrier market are examined. In the second part, a model was thus developed to simulate the direct costs of operations of a low cost airline. The …
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Identification of DNA Copy Number-Dependent Transcriptional Deregulation inHepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC)
… number variation and concomitant transcriptional deregulation, is posited to provide a promising strategy to identify driver targets. Here, the integrative analysis of the DNA copy numbers and gene expression profiles of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) was performed. By comparing DNA copy numbers …
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Essays on the economic performance of U.S. freight railroads under deregulation
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1994.
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