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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"flexible policy"”.
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Mergers and Acquisitions with a Flexible Policy Regime: Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
… empirical approach. The theoretical part uses flexible optimal policies which adjust to changes in the market structure following a merger. The empirical part tests the major theoretical predictions to identify determinants of M&As in advanced economies. Chapters 1 and 2 consider M&As among …
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Promoting Student Learning by Automatically Managing Resubmission Tokens
… the semester. While this approach is more flexible and equitable, it creates a significant amount of manual work for instructors, who have to track every request and update deadlines across multiple websites. This thesis tackles that problem in two ways. First, it introduces the EGP Broker, …
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Assessing the local-centre government policy relationship in Ireland
The policy relationship between local and national government has tended to be delineated into two frameworks. The first defines a relationship which is centralised at the national level. The second is one which identifies local government as autonomous. Current accepted thinking suggests that …
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Implementing State Educational Policy in Iowa: Voices from the Field
The problem: The problem of this qualitative policy implementation study was to describe and analyze what implementers understood as the intent of Iowa's Accountability for Student Learning Act as well as the processes and strategies used by small public school districts to implement this policy. …
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NATO military interventions in Kosovo, Libya, Afghanistan and their impact on relations with Russia after the Cold War
… etc.), "practical geopolitics" (the decisions of policy makers, official statements, documents, strategies and speeches) and "popular geopolitics" (media discourse and opinion surveys). The combination of these three elements allows for a determination of certain NATO and Russian geopolitical …
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Pricing and incentive design in applications of green technology subsidies and revenue management
… thesis addresses three issues faced by firms and policy-makers when deciding how to price products and properly incentivize consumers. In the first part of the thesis, we focus on a firm attempting to dynamically adjust prices to maximize profits when facing uncertain demand, as for example …
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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.
The policy implementation literature has provided important insights on how policy formulation processes affect the achievement of policy goals and how street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) involved in policy implementation utilise coping mechanisms to overcome shortages in resources, expertise and other …
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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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Zimbabwe's CAMPFIRE public investments: impact on education, adaptation and preferences
… The key lesson is that the programme is flexible; policy makers can reconfigure it to address critical livelihoods and capacity components as needed. With the active participation of local communities, it can therefore be directed to invest in livelihoods components that are more …