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Showing 1 to 20 of 146 for “"Policy Instruments"”.
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Market imperfections and market-based policy instruments
The first chapter discusses procurement auction mechanisms under the political constraint that the contractor is in effect protected from ex-post loss. Many construction procurers who use first price auctions eliminate abnormally low bids in order to reduce the probability of ex-post bid …
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Public policy instruments for designing the built environment
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1986.
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Election cycles in Federal Reserve policy instruments and indicators
… of a political monetary cycle in Federal Reserve policy instruments and indicators, such as the discount rate and the monetary base. The theoretical predictions of a four year presidential election cycle are tested with seasonal adjustment indices, which provide a measure of the seasonal component …
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Federal choice of policy instruments in the Canada green plan
… agenda, has now guided Canadian environmental policy for over a year and a half. In that time span, a large number of environmental initiatives have been announced under the Green Plan, and an even larger number are still promised. However, not every initiative contributes equally to preventing …
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Effectiveness of policy instruments in promoting electric vehicle purchases: the case of lithuania /
The main aim of this 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 …
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Essays on Earnings Instability: The Impact of Search Effectiveness, Labour Market Policy Instruments, and Globalisation
Chapter 1: We study the link between market thickness, labour market flexibility and wage dynamics. We consider an economy with two sectors; a risk-free sector that employs workers only, and a risky sector with matching frictions that employs both workers and employers. Workers are risk-averse, …
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Fostering the delivery of wind power: an evaluation of the performance of policy instruments in three European Union member states.
… into national systems with the deployment of policy instruments to make renewable energy sources electricity (RES-E) capable of nearly competing on a commercial basis with traditional forms of electricity generation. At the national level within the EU, there has been much experimentation with …
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Evaluating the role of market based policy instruments in managing trade-offs between ecosystem services supply and human welfare: case of Uluguru water catchment, Tanzania
… in Tanzania to assess whether marketbased policy instruments can secure internalisation of externalities in such complex socio-economic-ecological systems which are not only characterised by uncertain longterm responses to perturbations, but also intense competition between upstream and …
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Properties of natural systems and the efficiency of market-based solutions to environmental externalities
… and natural systems affects the efficiency of policy instruments to regulate environmental externalities. In the first study, I use a population data set of irrigation wells in Nebraska's Republican River Basin to analyze whether adopting spatially differentiated groundwater markets leads to …
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Instrument choice in environmental policy: a comparative study of pollution taxes and tradable pollution rights in British Columbia, Germany, and the United States
… theories of instrument choice in environmental policy suggest that policy makers choose policy instruments based on the distribution of costs and benefits in society. It is postulated that policy makers will select those policy instruments which confer concentrated benefits on interest groups …
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Facilitating trade in mineral resources : policy implications for trade between Africa, South Africa and East Asia
… such research in order to consider the optimal policy instruments that can benefit resource poor countries, such as Korea in particular, and resource rich countries such as South Africa. In Chapter 3, a number of proposals for Korea to establish rational policy systems to secure a stable REE …
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Cost -Effective Targeting of Land Retirement Programs to Improve Water Quality
… cost effective land retirement patterns and the policy instruments. Furthermore, the integration framework developed for the empirical applications is a methodological innovation that provides a tool for policymakers to improve cost effectiveness in land retirement programs.
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Challenges of the Energiewende from a policy analysis perspective
… The unclear and sometimes contradictory policy goals of the Energiewende as well as suboptimally designed policy instruments in key areas of the Energiewende are the two major areas of concerns of this dissertation. The aim of this dissertation is to contribute to the solution of selected …
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Modelling the impact of policy incentives on CO2 emissions from passenger light duty vehicles in five major economies with a dynamic model of technological change
… from passenger light-duty vehicles (PLDVs). Policy incentives send a signal to consumers and car manufacturers to influence purchasing decisions and the adoption of low-emission vehicles. In this thesis, an innovative model formulation is developed to represent consumer group diversity by …
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The Emergence and Persistence of Entrepreneurship Policy — A Policy Process Perspective [before doctoral defense]
… emergence and persistence of entrepreneurship policy across OECD countries in the developed world. The term entrepreneurship policy refers to a set of public policy instruments aimed at promoting entrepreneurship in specific socioeconomic contexts. These instruments include support services, …
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Building Energy Efficiency - Policy, learning and technology change
… To promote energy efficiency, various policy instruments have been in place since the 1970s. Nevertheless, energy efficiency improvements still lag behind their potential in the building sector, which indicates that there is a lack of knowledge about the performance of policies. To …
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Woodfuel in Rwanda impact on energy, poverty and the environment
… legal and regulatory framework were analysed. Policy instruments were examined to assess their conformity to sustainable management i.e whether they increase, or help to alleviate the pressure on woodfuel resources.
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The effects of agricultural price policies on the funding of agricultural research: Chile 1960-1988
… of the agricultural sector. These two policy instruments, under changing political environments, have had important distributional implications for agricultural producers and consumers. Neglecting the interactions between these instruments may have distorted the measurement of research …
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Simulation of Chinese Sorghum Imports from a New Perspective: U.S. and Global Impacts
… government cancels its corn price support policy and corn temporary reserve program nationwide. This study uses the USDA-ERS China Model and the Country-Commodity Linked System (CCLS) to simulate the impacts on U.S. sorghum exports and the reduction of sorghum's global price, global …
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