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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Unbundling"”.
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Concorrência e interconexão na indústria de telecomunicações brasileira: o problema do Unbundling
… desafios e oportunidades inerentes à prática do unbundling no Brasil. Propõe uma metodologia para o cálculo do preço do compartilhamento, que é um aspecto fundamental do unbundling, porque não deve ser levado o suficiente para impedir a entrada no mercado, nem reduzido de forma a inibir os …
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Energy related services in Kenya: Implications of unbundling the electricity sector on trade in services negotiations
… the need for policy reforms with the aim of unbundling the sector in Kenya. The literature review sets out to consider the main features of the electricity sector to better understand the legal and regulatory reforms that have taken place in the electricity sector and the impact of the …
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Efficient Bundling and Unbundling of Hospital Services: An Examination of Scale and Scope Economies in the Hospital Industry
… emergency or outpatient surgery clinics. This "unbundling" of services from the traditional hospital setting has motivated researchers to study the production technology of a hospital in order to determine which pairs of services exhibit economies or disconomies of scope. In addition, the …
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Tasks, stratification and occupational change : evidence from the legal profession
… is the disaggregation of work processes, or the unbundling of work into component tasks and their allocation to different sources of labor. The legal profession, and specifically the corporate law firms and clients that make up the profession's "core", is increasingly subject to such …
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The effects of construal level on types of creative agreements
… parties’ likelihood of creating value by unbundling issues under discussion. This is in contrast to prior work showing low construal levels were not effective for creating value by trading off issues, and worksuggesting that low construal levels do not promote creative solutions. This work …
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Methodology for a Security-Dependability Adaptive Protection Scheme based on Data Mining
… in the process of re-inventing itself. The unbundling of the traditional monopolistic structure that gave birth to a deregulated electricity market, the mass tendency towards a greener use of energy, the new emphasis on distributed generation and alternative renewable resources, and new …
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A comparative analysis of the electricity and telecommunications regulations of the UK and Germany - cross country and cross sectoral lessons
… between these regulations concern: 1) unbundling, 2) regulatory authorities and 3) Significant Market Power (SMP) regulation. Chapter 1 gives a general basis, through the analysis of the specific regulatory outcomes (prices, market shares and consumer satisfaction) then a more …
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Privatizing the Saudi electricity sector
… main take away being the importance of ownership unbundling in structural reforms. Chapter 3 provides a description of the current status of the sector in the KSA. It also discusses the regulatory options available to the government. Chapter 4 applies a mathematical model based on the concept of …
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Developing a natural gas trading hub in China
… the assets to the three big oil companies. Such unbundling should start from the national level with the conditions that big consumers should be permitted direct connection to the trunk pipelines. Additionally, a new mechanism incentivized the ISO to efficiently expand and connect the network …
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Remedies for non-price discrimination: their application in the UK broadband market and their effect on investment decisions
… back investment in market entry via local loop unbundling (LLU). To address this problem, Ofcom and BT agreed a set of Undertakings in lieu of a reference to the Competition Commission. BT agreed to a new form of non-discrimination remedy referred to as Equivalence of Input (EoI) and to a set of …
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Swimming at low Reynolds number slip boundaries and interacting filaments
… filaments to reveal the dynamics of bundling and unbundling. I then expand upon this to consider the full helical geometry of a bacterial flagellum, and develop a theoretical model for the pathway to synchronization. In each case, either by considering simple geometries or through the use of …
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Essays In international trade and labor markets
… where trade in services arises from the spatial unbundling of workers' task output. Transmission costs endogenously determine the magnitude of between-sector task trade both within a country ("outsourcing") and between countries ("offshoring"). We show that, while differentials in sectoral task …
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Liberalisation, the World Bank and investment in the electricity systems of Vietnam
… to the electricity sector, this called for the unbundling of the vertically-integrated public monopolies, in the expectation of sufficient private investment, lower prices and greater efficiency. The empirical literature shows that these expectations have not been generally fulfilled. Chapter 3 …
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Information and Incentives in Online Platforms
… firm enters the market though we show that unbundling becomes the unique optimal strategy.
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Electric power network economics : designing principles for a for-profit independent transmission company and underlying architectures for reliability
… for defining the market mechanisms essential for unbundling reliability in parallel to the functional unbundling. As attempted in this thesis, we believe that any proposed designs for electricity market structures should be examined with a clear understanding of the implications on the overall …
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Allocation of transmission losses to determine tariff
The recent widespread restructuring and unbundling of the electricity industry has introduced some changes in the organization of the sector, thereby creating a more competitive environment in which each participant must bear its own cost and be responsible for its own contribution to losses in the …
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Power, legitimacy and sovereignty in Hadramawt, Yemen
… often by proxy, dominates this valley. By unbundling the various strategies used by whole social classes or tribes and families within them, the dissertation identifies the tools deployed in securing a favourable social position in the context of three competing systems of governance – …
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The mechanical regulation of Eph/ephrin signalling in the developing Xenopus brain
… the role of tissue stiffness in RGC axon unbundling as the optic tract innervates the optic tectum. I characterised the mechanical landscape in the vicinity of the optic tract and found a stiffness gradient across the diencephalon-tectum boundary at the time of innervation by RGC axons. To …
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Enabling a Sustainable Economy through Energy Systems Modeling: Solar-centric, Efficient, Integrated and Continuous Process Synthesis and Optimization
… area is studied. The proposed solar spectrum unbundling FEW systems (SUFEWS) can enhance quality of life while reducing the overall environmental impact of meeting these needs. SUFEWS implementation on a relatively small portion of agricultural land area can supply the entire electricity and …