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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Market failure"”.
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Market failure and forms of enterprise
… are determined to a large extent by potential market failure. In the four independent, but closely interrelated chapters, I derive this hypothesis through theoretical reasoning, and suppose it by referring to empirical observations. Chapter 1, Forms of enterprise as a response to market …
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Public works as a response to labour market failure in South Africa
… pool of workers who are excluded from the labour market. The South African economy is facing labour market failure, with labour supply increasingly outstripping demand. If the economy continues on its current growth path this problem of labour market failure will intensify and the employment …
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The economics of social subordination : gender relations and market failure in the highlands of Papua New Guinea
… with the causes and consequences of the market failure that is generated by the social subordination of women in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG). It is argued that the development impasse in PNG, noted by a number of observers, has its principle antecedents in the extreme economic …
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Technology transition in the national air transportation system : market failure and game theoretic analysis with application to ADS-B
… barriers, and knowledge of ADS-B is presented. Market mechanisms that could potentially cause technology implementation failure are identified through game theoretic analysis of airline interview data. Potential market failures identified include public goods failures, cost-benefit asymmetries, …
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Asymmetrical Information Market Failure Triggered by the Chicago School's Profit Motive Paradigm: A Case Study of Virginia's Public Higher Education Market and Media Identification of Public Value Failure
… of Virginia\'s public higher education market and the use of asymmetrical information flows between providers and consumers by college and university institutions to intentionally create market failures to maximize brand building through increased revenue collections via profit …
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Affordable rental housing delivery in Kenya
… and an essential component of a vibrant housing market and construction industry as a whole. However, rental housing markets in most developing countries have been characterized by market failure because of the inability to provide adequate rental units commensurate with the urban population's …
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Contributions to EU regional policy
… analyse as to whether regional policy or the market force of the free flow of labour (migration) in the internal European market is the better instrument to improve and harmonise the living and working conditions of EU citizens. Based on neoclassical market failure theory, the first paper …
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Dead reckoning : where we stand on privacy and security controls for the Internet of Things
… induce a significant privacy and security market failure. This market failure is evident in recent IoT privacy and security events such as the Federal Trade Commission's cases against the IoT system developers TRENDnet and D-Link. I define three necessary paradigm shifts needed to improve …
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Strategic outsourcing of micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS)
… and services that will revolutionize the market in ABB's industrial sensors, instrumentation and analytical areas. The thesis begins with a description of ABB as a company and then provides a brief overview on MEMS and the challenges ABB faces as it tries to commercialize MEMS enabled …
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Essays on Social Venture Antecedents, Consequences, and Strategies
… explanation of social venture creation is the market failure perspective. This perspective holds that social ventures are created to address social issues that the market and the government have failed to deal with effectively (Austin et al., 2006). In this essay, I delve into the market …
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National approaches to consumer protection in France and Germany, 1970-1990
This research investigates the growth of product market regulation in France and Germany from 1970 to 1990. It finds that these countries have pursued divergent strategies for regulating their domestic product markets. France has treated consumers as citizens, granting them special political …
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Show me the money : promises and pitfalls of asset growth in community development credit unions and loan funds
… programs, deregulation in banking, and capital market failure, CDFIs provide a range of financial services that encourage economic self-sufficiency and wealth in low-income communities. In order to expand their impact, some CDFIs have increased their assets to serve more customers and offer more …
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Casting Bread Upon the Waters: American Farming and the International Wheat Market, 1880-1920
… and early 20th century, as wheat production and marketing were transformed in scale and in practice, American farmers tried to make sense of how they were positioned within a rapidly growing and changing international market. They tried to formulate a response that would gain them some sense of …
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Privatising infrastructure in a developing economy: lessons from stakeholder perceptions in a case study of Thailand's airport
… within the private sector. Yet many of the market failure lessons of the past are not discussed in any depth in recent privatisation literature, and few case studies are comprehensive. This thesis critically reviews existing world literature, theory, and evaluative frameworks in the context …
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Essays on Environmental Taxes, Tax Evasion and Public Goods Supply in the Presence of Imperfect Competition
… economy. In the chapter, we assume that another market failure is present in the economy through the existence of a production externality generated by the imperfectly competitive sector. The problem of interest is that of second-best taxation of externalities in the presence of imperfect …
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A Financial Model to Assist New Therapeutics Development Decision Making
… to evaluate Aduhelm, a recent high-profile failure in the biotech industry, and compare the valuation with Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) and Decision Tree (DT) methods. All three models were able to generate similar overall predictions to the change in Biogen’s market capitalization but ROV and …
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The private sector's capacity to manage climate risks and finance carbon neutral energy infrastructure
… change, (c) the capacity of private capital markets to finance carbon neutral energy infrastructure, and (d) the potential for market failure in developing carbon neutral energy infrastructure. The dissertation first identifies climate risks to infrastructure by examining scientific evidence …
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Asymmetric network ties to elite American universities create differential access to venture capital in Africa
… of countries? I reject the popular notion that market size is the primary reason why VC investments only end up in a few countries. Because ties with elite universities are the primary way in which African startup founders build social capital with U.S. VC firms, which are the largest purveyors …
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Fringe town : revitalization on the margin, assessing small downtown revival and catalytic real estate development feasibility on the urban fringe
… of small town revitalization, [2] a local market analysis, and [3] a site plan and financial feasibility model. The methods used to complete this research included focused interviews, market analysis, and financial modeling. These methods are coupled with a review of literature and sought …
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The planning and management of tourism in Europe: case studies of planning, management and control in the coastal zone.
… have been implemented only as a reaction to market failure and that resort managers are ill-equipped to deal with many of the problems that are evident in the tourism system. In particular the study highlights the importance of information and monitoring within the process of planning and …
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