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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Rebate"”.
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The diplomatic bargaining process of the British budgetary rebate
A BBQ (British Budgetary Question) egy gyűjtőfogalom. Magában foglalja egyfelől az Egyesült Királyság EK költségvetéshez történő nagymértékű nettó hozzájárulásának problematikáját, másfelől pedig előbb - 1984-ig - a túlzott hozzájárulás (helytelenül: túlfizetés) kompenzálására tett brit diplomáciai …
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Adoption, Spatial Patterns, and Behavioral Mechanisms in California Turf Removal Rebate Programs
… a $450 million-dollar regional turf removal rebate program which provided homeowners with a cash rebate for every square foot of natural turf removed from their yard and replaced with a program approved alternative. This dissertation is divided into three distinct papers that analyze the role …
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Energy Efficiency In San Marcos, Texas: Is Our Rebate Program Up to Code?
… of San Marcos offers the Energy Efficient Home Rebate Program to reduce the cost of energy efficient home improvements for residential utility customers. In 2010, $42,424 in rebates was given, with 68 households receiving at least one rebate. Still, the program falls short, not reaching or …
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A Study of Energy Tax and Rebate Schemes: Energy Conservation and the Question of Equity
… especially the poor, tax revenues could be rebated to households. It has been attempted to design an "equitable" rebate scheme.
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Fair Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) Commitment Disputes and Antitrust Law–An Analysis of Bundled Rebate Under FRAND Commitment Context
… intertwined with the issues of bundled rebate and loyalty discount because only few scholars focus on researching this issue. The Qualcomm case is the example of this dispute. Based on this case, the research questions that interests us are: one, if the court rules that bundled rebate …
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Cost trends and government incentives in the California photovoltaics market, 2007-2008
… market during 2007-2008. The data show that pre-rebate system costs increased in California during this time period and that this was driven by a surge in worldwide module cost. Systems employing thin film technology did not exhibit a downward impact on cost, which contradicts historical and …
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Contractor Learning and Home Energy Efficiency in Heat Pump Installations
… the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) rebate program. We find that as contractors gain experience, heating systems are downsized at the cost of less hours of displaced fossil-fuel based heating. This learning impact is strongest for homes with a natural gas backup heater, which is the …
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Implementations of electric vehicle system based on solar energy in Singapore : assessment of solar photovoltaic systems
… funding and government incentives such as rebate or feed-in price tariff, PV electricity generation could become economically feasible. The small private house system is found not economical as a means of household electricity generation even with current status of government rebate. When …
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Reducing Provincial Drug Plan Costs Through Regional Pooled-Purchasing Agreements
… enable members to maximize supplementary volume rebates from manufacturers. New Zealand’s national purchasing pool lowered drug prices between 21% and 79% less than prices paid in British Columbia for the same products in 2005. Purchasing pools in the United States designed to reduce the cost of …
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Essays on Social Preference
… essay discusses the effects of different type of rebate schemes on altruistic behavior. We study the effects of a real and a minimal identity on initiation and escalation of conflict in the fourth essay. The fifth essay investigates the effects of social cues in (anti) social behavior. The final …
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New applications in Revenue Management
… encourage green technology adoption through a rebate to consumers. We model this setting as a Stackleberg game where firms interact in a price-setting competing newsvendor problem where the government gives a rebate to consumers in the first stage. We show the trade-off between social welfare …
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Informal debt contract and consumption : evidence from the vehicle scrappage program/
… of social sanction. Moreover, I exploit a unique rebate mechanism of the VSP in China to show that the program design and household liquidity together play a big role in determining the take-up rate of the vehicle scrappage program.
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Future contactless payment options for transport for London : demand, cost, equity, and fair policy implications
… Option 2 is like Option 1 but adds a rebate program to approximate the effects of passes and transfer discounts. Option 3 requires users to tap-in and tap-out, and supports traditional transit fares. Option 4 continues the current use of a proprietary smartcard to implement traditional …
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Implementación del proceso "Order to Cash" para lograr un óptimo fill rate en un importante cliente de autoservicios en Puig Perú
… de ello se logró negociar con ellos un cobro por rebate logístico por centralizado que satisfizo a ambas partes.
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The Economic Water Model - a method and software program for assessing the impacts of storm water "green solutions" in urban areas
… while also providing a performance based rebate for those property owners who do install a storm water green solution. Rather than use modeling tools that utilize single design storms and runoff coefficients, site-specific GIS data can be input for a continuous runoff model whose focus is …
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Combinations of policy measures with a high potential for reducing the fuel consumption of the U.S. light-duty vehicle fleet
… that combines fuel economy standards, fee and rebate scheme for vehicles, fuel taxes and increased renewable content in fuels
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Maintenance of Weight Loss
… was rewarded with the return of a monetary rebate from therapy fees during training. Clients were contacted and weighed at random intervals during the three months following the end of training. Findings. There were no differences between those clients who did not practice the maintenance …
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Wastewater treatment and energy : an analysis on the feasibility of using renewable energy to power wastewater treatment plants in Singapore
… viable, but only with at least a 63 percent rebate. Sludge digestion and methane gas combustion proved to be by far the most economically viable option for wastewater treatment plants in Singapore. In the case of BJ725, approximately S$8,000 of yearly income can be generated if sludge …
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ESSAYS ON CUSTOMER ANALYTICS IN MOBLIE ECOSYSTEMS
… donation amount are significantly higher with rebate subsidies, compared to matching subsidies. Taken as a whole, this dissertation contributes to a better understanding of customer behavior and the role of the technology use in the mobile ecosystem.
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Essays on firms in developing countries
… many forms. I take advantage of an export VAT rebate policy reform in 2004 as a natural experiment to identify the existence of internal trade barriers and study the impact on TFP and resource allocation. In particular, as a result of shifting tax rebate burdens, the 2004 reform leads to a …
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