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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Government subsidies"”.
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A közvetlen állami támogatások erkölcsi kockázatának formális modellezése és empirikus elemzése = Modelling and empirically testing moral hazard issues of government subsidies
A KKV-k finanszírozási problémáinak során tapasztalt kontraszelekció és az erkölcsi kockázat kiterjesztése során az állami támogatások generálta új típusú erkölcsi kockázatokat vizsgálom. Ellentétben a pénzintézeti forrásbevonással az állami támogatásokat, amelynek célja versenyképesség és a …
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A THREE PART ESSAY ON THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES ON FIRM LEVEL INNOVATIVE CAPACITY A SYNTHESIS OF EFFECT, PRODUCTIVITY AND PROFITABILITY.
… First, via a Probit model, we assess the effect subsidies have on firm level innovation and determine if these effects impound in firm level performance given these subsidies. Second, we seek to determine the extent subsidies promote learning and hence positively impact outcomes associated with …
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A distributional analysis of healthcare financing in a developing country : a Nigerian case study applying a decomposable Gini index
… significant third-party financing mechanisms and government subsidies, direct purchase of healthcare affects the relative abilities of households to meet their other financial obligations after paying for the cost of health services. In other words, this study aims to analyze the redistributive …
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Cuba's tourist industry: Parallel economies and social stratification
… economic, political and cultural genre of the government, but also of its citizens; This thesis asks the question, "Has the re-introduction of international tourism in Cuba diluted and compromised the egalitarian goals of the revolution"? I intend to show that the consequences of Cuba's …
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Decomposing the grid
… square frames a lose-lose situation in which government subsidies encourage intensive monocultural production resulting in loss of topsoil, biodiversity and population while contaminating the ground with chemicals and glutting global commodity markets. Current "advances" in agricultural …
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Achieving grid parity for large scale photovoltaic systems in New Jersey
… parity in the next few years without requiring government subsidies or market support techniques. This research included actual data from numerous real world, large scale photovoltaic projects the author engineered in the northeastern United States and is informed by those design optimizations, …
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A case study of the application of divestiture legislation on three small Québec ports
… in Canada has historically been under federal government ownership and control. Over the years, however, the marine system has become over-built. It is unable to cover costs and overly dependent on government subsidies. The Canadian government recently enacted legislation to divest the bulk of …
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Biofuel supply chain challenges and analysis
… is not competitive in price to gasoline without government subsidies, but as the supply chain matures, efficiencies gained will narrow the gap.
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Urban Growth with Limited Prosperity: A History of Public Housing in Laredo, Texas -- 1938 to 2006
… poor" continues to be of great importance as government subsidies become scarce in the early 21st century. This dearth of support for public housing is even more evident and prominent along the United States-Mexico border of South Texas, a territory described as having a third world …
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Deadweight loss and the American civil war : the political economy of slavery, secession, and emancipation
… practices—from piracy through monopoly to government subsidies—where individual gains do not vii translate into social benefits. In the terminology of economics, it was a system that imposed significant “deadweight loss” on the Southern economy, despite being lucrative for slaveholders. The …
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Megaform : a frame of opposition
… adoption of the internal combustion automobile, government subsidies and propaganda have resulted in a homogenized and privatized city with no identifiable center or clearly defined boundaries. How might one establish identifiable civic landmarks in these conditions? How could a novel technology, …
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The impacts of trade and agricultural policies in the Dominican Republic: a sector programming approach
… reflect the border price and the elimination of government subsidies in the agricultural sector. External market condition changes included the elimination of the US sugar quota and an increase in the US sugar quota up to the level assigned in 1990. Agricultural production, income and employment …
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Spatial Integration in China's Pork Markets, 1999-2009
… in domestic and foreign investments, and government subsidies. Despite these changes, small backyard operations still constitute a large share of production, and concerns exist as to whether the Chinese marketing system with limited infrastructure is providing appropriate signals to …
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An analysis of factors influencing the level of fundraising for Non-Profit Organisations (NPOS) of the Khomas region of Namibia
… has been increasing yearly. Most NPOs depend on government subsidies or local and international donor agencies to finance their operations. This scenario has been threatening their survival and ability to attain their aims and objectives for social transformation. Donor agencies have reduced …
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Effectiveness of policy instruments in promoting electric vehicle purchases: the case of lithuania /
… academic work was to determine the impact of government subsidies on the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) in Lithuania, based on a comprehensive analysis of existing literature and empirical data. The academic paper consists of three main parts: the literature review, the empirical research …
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Privacy Suspension with Sustainability and Trust in Consumer Adoption of Smart Technology
… study also discusses the relationships between governments, companies, and consumers regarding the effects of the common good of sustainability and government subsidies. The third chapter evaluates the mediation effects between sustainability, trust, privacy concerns, disclosure intentions, and …
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The Film Industry in Taiwan: A Political Economy Perspective
… industries. The study takes into account how the governments’ policies have been framed and examines the interaction between the governments and the industries in the 1990s. This thesis will start by expounding the approach of political economy and explain how it will be applied to the study of …
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Essays on Efficient Policy Interventions in Electricity, Natural Resource, and New Technology Markets
… In my first chapter, I study the effect of government subsidies for the adoption of rooftop solar panels in California. The subsidies for solar installations declined over time in discrete steps, resulting in demand spikes preceding each subsidy decline. In a market like this, solar …
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Brownian motion and multidimensional decision making
… for renewable deployment", considers the role of government subsidies for renewable technologies. Rapidly diminishing subsidies are cheaper for taxpayers, but could prematurely kill otherwise successful technologies. By contrast, high subsidies are not only expensive but can also prop up …
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Financing development of multifamily low income rental housing in Bogotá, Columbia
… city. As a response to the problem, the central government has traditionally supported the ownership of affordable housing through direct subsidies granted to qualifying low income households. However, given the constraints in the resources of capital available in the country, and the magnitude …
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