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Showing 1 to 20 of 130 for “"Economic Incentives"”.
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Economic incentives in aerospace weapon systems procurement
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1998.
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Money. Money. Money? Economic incentives in civil conflict
… of wealth to explain the relationship between economic factors and civil peace. Many scholars have suggested that this may not be enough, but it does not appear that we have been listening. This thesis assesses the strength of economic incentives to influence the actions of individuals and …
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Economic incentives for military housing residents to conserve utilities
… of individual metering are, the financial incentives for tenants to conserve utilities and the ability to hold tenants responsible for consumed utilities through accurate utility meter readings. The five alternatives for the conservation of utilities in military housing proposed by the …
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Policy goals and economic incentives: the case of sheltered workshops
… regulatory controls are ciearly delineated. An economic model is utilized to show how the organizational process deviates from government policy and how, by manipulating the process through incentives, the agency can be motivated to more socially optimal performance. The conceptual paradigm for …
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Economic incentives for the sustainable management and conservation of tropical forests
… traces through 13 of my publications on economic incentives for forest management and conservation in tropical countries (with a regional bias towards Latin America), including several papers focused on participatory forest management or community-based conservation. The papers show how …
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Economic incentives for adoption of alternative crops in the rainfed US
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Economic incentives for institutional change: the case of the Virginia Wetlands Act
… explore the view that some institutions provide economic services, and that pressure for institutional change result from changes in demand for these services. A general hypothesis to be tested in the case of the Virginia Wetlands Act is that institutional change to assure protection of …
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Internet use and the duration of buying and selling in the residential housing market, economic incentives and voting
In this study we examine the impact of internet use on the duration of non-sequential search in the housing market. We develop a model of partial equilibrium in the housing market which suggests an ambiguous effect on the search duration when internet resources are employed in the search. In this …
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A Quantitative Analysis of the Economic Incentives of sub-Saharan Africa Urban Land Use Planning Systems: Case Study of Accra, Ghana.
… is known of the extent and magnitude of the economic impact of these planning regimes on the economic wellbeing of individuals and the society. This situation is further compounded by the lack of simplified and bespoke methodologies for calibrating economic impacts of planning policies even …
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A case study in the deployment of digital access technologies : DSL vs. cable modems
… industry with little or no competition. The economic incentives to deploy new technological innovations were often overshadowed by the regulatory environment and a lack of competitive pressures. The 1982 divestiture of AT&T successfully created competition in the long distance market, however …
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Economics of Sustainable Resource Use
This dissertation studies the economics of sustainable resource use across biological scales and policy domains. It combines conceptual and quantitative approaches in four parts: the valuation of microbial biodiversity, the development of an indicator framework for SDG 14 in Europe, the analysis of …
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Strategic algorithms
… components are, for example, uncertainty and economic incentives. Therefore, modem algorithm design is calling for more interdisciplinary approaches, as well as for deeper theoretical understanding, so that the algorithms can apply to more realistic settings and complex systems. Consider, for …
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The role of military-industrial relations in the history of vaccine innovation
… to fall and vaccine stocks to dwindle. Poor economic incentives for vaccine development are often cited as the reason for falling rates of innovation. This explanation is correct but incomplete, because, for example, economic incentives for vaccine development were poor during the 1940's and …
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Information Technology and Governance: Substitution and Complementary Effects
… efficiently while simultaneously managing economic incentives effectively continues to provide challenges for strategic management. By analyzing the effects of a specific IT system on the governance of vertical relationships, this dissertation extends studies in organizational economics and …
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The Impact of Electronic Commerce on Consumer and Organizational Costs
… any increase in costs. Therefore, there are economic incentives for consumers and many types of organizations (product/service providers, transaction brokers, and interactive service providers) to participate in electronic markets and organize as electronic hierarchies to create products and …
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Nature's contributions to people: socio-economic assessments of strategies to conserve natural capital and guide the sustainable provision and equitable distribution of ecosystem services in developing countries
… benefits inequitably shared. In many instances economic incentives and resource management approaches have not led to the sustainable use or equitable distribution of the benefits of natural resources such as fisheries and forests. This has occurred in part because policy makers and natural …
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Controlling PM2.5 in Chengdu: Analysis and Recommendations from the China, U.S. and California Experience
<p>Chengdu, China, is experiencing rapid economic growth and urbanization at a cost of serious air pollution problems. China has developed a series of policies to reduce PM2.5 emissions and to reform energy structure. However, problems exist which may prevent effectively implementation of the PM2.5 …
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Essays on Ethnic Party Competition and Public Goods Provision in South Asia
… a stronger motivator driving ethnic voting than economic incentives like public goods or economic clientelism. Economic patronage is found to be only relevant in peaceful societies with little modern history of ethnic violence, and towards building cross-cutting ethnic coalitions. The findings …
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The Earnings Test and Work Patterns: Experiences of Canada and the United States
… to this goal because people respond to economic incentives. The purpose of this study is to empirically examine what has happened when the earnings test has been liberalized in the United States and completely removed in a country with similar socio-economic characteristics, in this case …
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Investigating practice variation in a changing primary care. A multilevel perspective on The Skaraborg Primary Care Database
… are the introduction of medical guidelines and economical incentives that rewards the desired behaviour. Practice variation in primary care can be seen on different hierarchically organised levels (e.g. patient, physician, health care center (HCC)) and Multilevel Regression analysis techniques …
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