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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Under-investment"”.
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Stability and Legitimate Expectations in International Energy Investments: An Analysis of the Interplay between the Two Concepts
… in order to be able to secure profit from their investments. Stability provisions, as found under investment contracts or domestic laws, are the main tools that international energy investors employ in this regard. <br/><br/>Even though stabilisation clauses have been around for decades, the …
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The measurement of passenger preferences towards rail station and on-train facilities
… by rail operators and planners for evaluating investment in such facilities are limited. The result can be under-investment in such facilities. It makes the case that such facilities are important devices for inproving the quality of rail travel and that under-investment in facilities implies …
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Measuring risk aversion among asset poor small-scale farmers in the Western Cape, South Africa
… inherently risk averse given their tendency to under-invest in risky yet profitable crop technologies. In contrast to this dominant view we argue that it is unlikely that these farmers have an inherent disposition towards risk aversion. We hypothesize that the observed under-investment in crop …
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Essays in Foreign Investment
… a framework for analyzing indirect foreign investment flows when enforcement of private contracts is inadequate. We analyze conditions under which investment decisions are affected by a repayment incentive constraint, and study when ""under investment"" occurs. The optimal investment level …
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Real estate investment indices in Japan and their role in optimal international portfolio allocation
… disadvantage involved in cross-border investment. But, real estate has become a major asset class and cross-border real estate investment has been surging. Behind this phenomenon is heightened awareness among investors of the modem portfolio theory and the benefits of diversification. …
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Agency conflicts in financial contracting with applications to venture capital and CDO markets
… a model of manager trading behavior and quantify under-investment and asset substitution problems, calibrating to market parameters.
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An analysis of the cost-effectiveness of selected government- supported training programs
… and training related externalities may lead to under investment in human capital, i.e., a non-Pareto equilibrium in which marginal social return to human capital investment exceeds its marginal social cost. When this situation occurs, it may be economically sound to have the public sector make …
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The impact of educational attainment on household poverty in South Africa: a case study of Limpopo Province
From 1947-1994, South Africans were ruled under apartheid – a racially discriminatory political and economic system. As the name itself implies, apartheid is an Afrikaans name meaning “apartness”. The provision of education in South Africa during this regime was poor, particularly for the African …
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Trade Secrets and International Investment Law
… by bringing claims against those states under investment promotion and protection treaties. While the protection of trade secrets has been noted by commentators, there is yet to be a detailed analysis of the protection of trade secrets under international investment law. To carry out that …
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Teachers with a capital 'T' : exploring the professionalism of experienced teachers in Kyrgyzstan
… despite the effects of at least three decades of under investment in education and teacher policies that have deprofessionalised teachers and diminished their social status. My conceptual approach includes an exploration of three interrelated aspects of professionalism: professional commitment, …
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Determinants of the supply of urban public transport services in Harare, Zimbabwe
… sector to the Zimbabwean economy, the continued undersupply in the sector is alarming. The main objective of the study is to identify the factors affecting the supply of urban transport in Harare, Zimbabwe. The research seeks to find the reasons of the high mismatch of demand and supply in the …
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The commercial and technical evolution of the ferry industry 1948-1987
… railway nationalisation followed by a decade of under-investment. The period ended with a loss of supremacy for the railway-owned shipping sector, privatisation, increased competition, the 1987 Herald of Free Enterprise disaster – in no small part exacerbated by the drive through vehicle deck …
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Labour Investment: A Managers’ Decision-Making Perspective
… factors that affect management’s labour investment decisions and how management of labour influences firm performance. In my first study, I examine how firms adjust their labour in response to business downturns and how different labour adjustment practices influence firms’ financial …
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Investment Cash Flow Sensitivity: International Evidence
… investigated the effect of financial factors on investment decisions of firms. More recently, researchers have extended conventional models of firm-investment by incorporating a role for financing constraints in determining the firm's investment decision. Empirical work points to overwhelming …
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Resilience thinking and the influence of street-level bureaucrats on the implementation of EU environmental policies in overseas territories: lessons from Gibraltar.
… theory and resilience to develop more detailed understandings of how contextual factors shape policy implementation trajectories and how the coping mechanisms used by SLBs enable policy implementation systems to remain functional and adapt to external policy pressures. This research used a …
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Three Essays in Macroeconomics
… paper studies a dynamic moral hazard problem under an AK-technology. In a first best world, the expected growth rate is strictly decreasing with capital. However, with information asymmetry our theory is consistent with both empirical facts because the optimal contract dictates …
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Rage against the regime: Policy responses to international investment arbitration
… literature is the notion that the international investment regime is experiencing backlash. At the center of this backlash is the belief that international investment treaties unduly restrain states’ ability to regulate in the public interest, most notably by allowing foreign investors to file …
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Business, training and education: Sheffield circa 1880-1940
… economic decline was causally related to an under-investment in technical education and a failure to recruit scientific personnel. However, economic depression in the 1920s and consequent spending cuts led to a general weakening of the education and training system, not only in Sheffield but …
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Perspectives on Innovation Incentives on the EU Pharmaceutical Sector with Focus on EMA and Parallel Trade
… desirable extent. The regulator can respond to under-investment by introducing regulation that supports the emergence of innovations. Patents have traditionally been used by the regulator for this purpose, because they provide the innovator an exclusivity period, which enables the innovator to …
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Exploring the impact of pre-proceedings meetings in the Northern Health and Social Care Trust
… Trusts. The aim of this study was to develop an understanding of the broad range of factors underpinning social work activity in the pre-proceedings forum, the biographical contexts within which families are engaged in pre-proceedings interventions and the extent to which pre-proceedings meetings …
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