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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"market failures"”.
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Financial market failures and systemic crises
… frameworks to address different financial market failures, and evaluate preventive policies to mitigate the vulnerability of the economy to costly systemic crises. First, it identifies a credit risk (fire sale) externality that justifies the macroprudential regulation of short-term debt to …
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Market failures, task-based production model and the agricultural productivity gap
La brecha de productividad agrícola es uno de los principales problemas de las economías en desarrollo. Las metodologías utilizadas para evaluar estos niveles de productividad dependen en gran medida de supuestos sobre la función de producción que, la mayoría de las veces, no tienen en cuenta la …
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Beyond market failures : irrigation, the state, and non-traditional agricultures in Northeast Brazil
… compromising the access of producers to export markets, and in spite of all three regions having received similar heavy government investments in large-scale irrigation infrastructure. Findings show that the economic transformation of Petrolina-Juazeiro does not relate to market-friendly …
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The Problem with Purity: Market Failures, Foodborne Contamination, and the Search for Accountability in the U.S. Food Safety Regulatory Regime
… "command and control" versus "bottom up" "market driven" regulatory regimes designed to resolve market failures and promote accountability relative to food safety. It includes an analysis of the impact and influence of food producing, processing, and distributing firms upon the policy …
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Speeding the uptake of electric vehicles in Australia: social attitudes to electric vehicle purchase and recommendations for government intervention to address market failures
… of government actions in the more successful markets to identify international best practice; 2) original research, using online questionnaires, to identify social attitudes to EVs for motorists with pro-environmental tendencies to determine significant perceived barriers to uptake, and …
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High Hill Yak Cheese Production in Nepal: An Analysis of Privatization Policy Incorporating the Impacts of Market Failures for Agro-Industries in Developing Countries
… shift. However, public enterprises mitigate market failures. The major objective of this study is to measure the impact of privatizing the Nepalese yak cheese industry. To achieve the objective, public and private behavior are determined. The impacts of privatization stem from changes in …
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Technology transition in the national air transportation system : market failure and game theoretic analysis with application to ADS-B
… barriers, and knowledge of ADS-B is presented. Market mechanisms that could potentially cause technology implementation failure are identified through game theoretic analysis of airline interview data. Potential market failures identified include public goods failures, cost-benefit asymmetries, …
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A szabályozó eszközök rengetegében. A villamosenergia-szektor piaci kudarcait kezelő szabályozó eszközök egymásra hatásának vizsgálata = In the jungle of regulatory instruments. Analysis of the interaction of regulatory instruments dealing with the market failures of the electricity sector
… volt. (...) ____ There are a number of market failures within the electricity sector, of which we introduced three in detail in our dissertation: environmental externalities, market failures related to energy efficiency investments, and negative externality of carbon-dioxide emission. A …
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Asymmetrical Information Market Failure Triggered by the Chicago School's Profit Motive Paradigm: A Case Study of Virginia's Public Higher Education Market and Media Identification of Public Value Failure
… of Virginia\'s public higher education market and the use of asymmetrical information flows between providers and consumers by college and university institutions to intentionally create market failures to maximize brand building through increased revenue collections via profit …
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Essays on Environmental Economics and Policy
… improving policies to address and correct market failures stemming from externalities and public goods. The rationale for most modern environmental regulations stems from the failure of markets to efficiently allocate goods and services. Yet, as with any policy, distributional effects are …
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In search of the silver lining : case analysis for mature market businesses
… developed to provide an understanding of notable failures in the mature market. Case studies in three sub-industries are used to highlight the negative effects of key influencers on each of the 3-D activities. Documentation from the business press and interviews with industry leaders are used to …
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Post-privatisation problems in the Nigerian electricity sector : the roles of sector-specific regulation and antitrust law
The current failures of electricity regulation in Nigeria are resulting from neoliberal, market-oriented ideas. The policies promised a competitive electricity market that would work well for all stakeholders. However, several years after implementation, these promises are yet to be realised. This …
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Economic Policies, Volatility and Development
… explains endogenous limited liability rules and market failures, using a dynamic environment with asymmetric information, with emphasis on wealth effects. Chapter 3 discusses why poor countries are more volatile than rich countries, from an empirical and theoretical perspective. Chapter 4 …
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A hybrid framework for social and financial investment decisions
… to address, with personal resources, the various market failures that lead to the unsustainable depletion of natural resources and degradation of social outcomes. To accommodate for these preferences, this study proposes a theoretical framework to be used by such managers to inform their …
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Theoretical and empirical investigations of excessive congestion as a result of market and planning failures
… congestion are discussed in detail here: market failures from congestion and agglomeration externalities and planning failures from exclusionary zoning and low-density zoning practices. This research is among the first to connect the economics of planning failure with excessive congestion. …
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Desregulamentação financeira e intervenção do Estado na economia: o exemplo americano e o caso brasileiro
… Financial System, taking as parameter regulatory failures identified in the US financial system that lead to the crisis of 2008, as well as market failures presented by Minsky requiring state intervention to regulate financial activity. This reflection is justified in reason of the importance of …
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Essays in applied macroeconomics
… of sectors can induce different types of market failures. Understanding the macroeconomic consequences of corporate decisions is a key component of creating sound policies that facilitate stable and sustainable economic growth. I employ a unique combination of reduced-form, theoretical, …
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Economic and environmental opportunities in electronics industry
… need to be managed at end of life. The two main market failures related to waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) are economic loss and environmental externalities. Incomplete recovery of materials in waste mobile phones results in a great amount of economic loss. Many studies aim to …
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Flawed corporate governance of state-owned entities (SAA) in South Africa: lessons from Rwandair and Ethiopian airlines
… SOEs are fundamental drivers to remedy market failures and remove direct obstacles to development
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Cost-effective allocation of public funding to promote the commercialization of renewable energy technology
… in the commercialization process to overcome market failures that distort private investment in new technologies to ensure the provision of these technologies. Both technology-push and demand-pull policies are necessary to accelerate commercialization of renewable energy technologies, but the …
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