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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Single market"”.
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The European Union's single market initiative : a new context for construction
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1994.
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Impacts of the EC 1992 single market on international marketing activities of American interior furnishing textile manufacturers
… was to examine the export involvement and marketing characteristics of eight US interior furnishing textile (IFT) manufacturers who market to the EC, and to determine their perceptions of how the creation of the EC 1992 Single Market would affect their future marketing strategies and market …
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The Caribbean Community, the Caribbean Single Market and Economy and the CISG: Three ways of promoting international trade in the Caribbean region
… into to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), its Single Market and Economy and the Caribbean Court of Justice. This dissertation will then culminate by addressing the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods 1980 (CISG) and the benefits of CARICOM countries in …
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Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise (SME) Participation in Public Procurement
… and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) dominate the Single Market contributing to local employment generation and innovative supplies and services development. Yet, SMEs are continuously disproportionately underrepresented in public markets. On average EU member states spend approximately 14% of …
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Rethinking cross-border insolvency and rescue law theory: towards a better understanding of European harmonisation
… of the EU objective of integrating the European Single Market. This thesis introduces a new understanding of “harmonisation” and presents the regulatory methods and instruments it encompasses. The research uses the specific field of cross-border insolvency and rescue law as a case study to gather …
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Multimarket Search
… exclusively with the search for the price of a single good. Since consumers would like to maximize the utility of consumption, a more general problem than minimizing the price of one good, search theory should consider the problem of searching in several markets in order to determine the …
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Three Essays on the Interactions between Agriculture and the Environment
… third essays). The first essay proposes a multimarket equilibrium approach to estimating the consumer surplus for environmentally-friendly technologies adopted by farmers. Compared to conventional non-market valuation techniques based on single-market equilibrium, this new method allows for …
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Knowledge-based SOA framework for improved supply chain integration and delivery
… are everywhere that people do business, from a single market stall by the side of a road to a multinational corporation. Wherever there are goods and services that need to be used in a scheduled way to create a product that will be sold. The problem that this thesis addresses is to manage a …
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Essays in econometrics and random matrix theory
… of risk factors. They are also biased towards a single market factor, the importance of which is overestimated in samples. In Chapter 3, I derive a new consistent procedure for the estimation of the number of latent factors by examining the effect of the idiosyncratic noise in a factor model. …
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Environmental Tradeoffs in Bioenergy Production and Agricultural Practices
… tested in regards to sustainability, prices, and market integration for five states and 18,760 soil types throughout the Corn Belt. Sustainability was defined to limit soil erosion from wind and water to 5 tons/acre/year and the soil organic matter metric (SCI) to be positive. The results of the …
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Using Directional Change for Information Extraction in Financial Market Data
… change (DC) is a new concept for summarizing market dynamics. Instead of sampling the financial market at fixed intervals as in the traditional time series analysis, by contrast, DC is data-driven: the price change itself dictates when a price is recorded. DC provides us with a complementary …
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Economic & Social Development and the benefits of the process of integration in the European Union: the case of Cyprus
… are located primarily in Europe. An internal single market has been established through a standardized system of laws that apply in all member states in those matters, and only those matters, where the states have agreed to act as one. EU policies aim to ensure the free movement of people, …
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Assessing cost efficiency and economies of scale in the European banking system, a Bayesian stochastic frontier approach
… cost effi_x000E_ciency of the European banking market for which we identify fourteen nation-specific frontiers and also perform cross country comparisons under a common frontier assumption. Our interest in the subject is twofold. At the nation level, cost e_x000E_fficiency influences the …
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BALANCING FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS, INNOVATION AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST IN COPYRIGHT LAW: THE CASE OF GENERATIVE AI MODELS
… exceptions under the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive (CDSMD) struggle to accommodate the data-driven logic of machine learning. The conflict between ‘lawful source’ and ‘lawful conduct’ of the access requirement, alongside the shortcomings of the opt-out mechanism, reveals a …
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TOWARDS A SINGLE INVESTMENT AREA IN THE EAST AFRICAN REGION: FRAMEWORK, PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES
… a common external tariff (CET). In addition, a single market can be created that provides four principal freedoms; free movement of goods, services, people and labour. As an offshoot of this integration process, investment inflows are typically expected to increase in the region and thus the …
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Performance of multiple cabin optimization methods in airline revenue management
… separately. In this thesis, we develop several single-leg multiple cabin revenue management optimization algorithms. We extend two different single-leg separate cabin dynamic programming algorithms to the multiple cabin case, and also present three Expected Marginal Seat Revenue (EMSR) based …
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The deregulation of television and policies for new media development: a comparative study of the United Kingdom, France, Luxembourg and the broadcasting policy of the European Community during 1981-86
… Kingdom favoured private initiative and the market forces. This project also stresses that although economic pressures and challenges have been a driving force for policy adjustment, technology and markets do not themselves dictate specific and institutional arrangements. Additionally, it …
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Whose Choice Is It Really?: The Impact of Property Profitability, Owner Strategies, & Perceived Majority Tenant Prejudices on Housing Choice Voucher Acceptance
… and qualitative studies of landlords within a single market area. This research has implications for improving the future performance of the voucher program and the housing quality of low-income renters. By understanding the factors influencing voucher acceptance, public policy makers can …
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Japanese firms in the EU: Europeanization of lobbying strategies and enduring national characteristics
… has increased since the creation of the European Single Market. At the same time, large European firms have become independent political actors and harmonized their lobbying pattern, creating a distinctive business-government relationship in the EU. Yet, it still remains to be examined whether …
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