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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"pay-as-you-go"”.
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Uncertainty and the effects of a pay-as-you-go social security program on economic growth
… and portfolio decisions are integrated into stochastic growth models to find how a social security program alters intermediate and long-run equilibrium factor payments. Two forms of uncertainty are used, namely, production uncertainty and labor force participation. In the first part of this paper …
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Assessing the impact of recent fare policy changes on public transport demand in London
… have made changes in fare structure. Over the last decade, Transport for London has implemented the Oyster smart card based electronic ticketing system (including the Pay-as-you-Go stored credit payment facility) on the major public transport modes: buses, the Underground and National Rail, and …
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Essays on financial, transportation and savings investment technologies
… retirement income: inter-generational transfers (pay-as- you-go systems) and capital markets investments. Access to mobile money services is shown to have a significant impact on economic activity. Areas with access to mobile money services grow faster, especially when they are initially richer, …
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The challenge of smooth transition from R&D business for innovation in a telecom company
The environment surrounding telecom companies has changed dramatically since most were privatized in the 1980s. Under the influence of regulations, they had faced globalization and have repeatedly divided and consolidated to improve competitiveness. From the technology and marketing points of view, …
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Essays on Macroeconomics and Labor Economics
… estate tax creates short-run distortions, whereas a pay-as-you-go social security system can eliminate dynamic inefficiency, even when not explicitly linked to an individual's fertility decision. In Chapter 2, I use a heterogeneous-agent lifecycle overlapping-generation model with credit …
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Pensions reforms, redistribution and welfare
… of pensions, whether universal or targeted, has a signficant impact on capital formation and by extension on a host of economic aggregates and welfare. Capital is always higher under a fully-funded scheme. Under certain conditions, it is optimal to have no pay-as-you-go pensions in place and a …
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Essays on public pension systems, with special reference to China
… reforms and the problems and suggestions associated with the current system. More importantly, by applying a calibrated overlapping generations general equilibrium simulation model, it investigates the impact of the demographic changes and the choice of pension system to the individual …
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Fireworks: A Fast, Efficient and Safe Serverless Framework
… in Cloud computing. Serverless computing has interesting, unique properties that the unit of deployment and execution is a serverless function. Moreover, it introduces the new economic model pay-as-you-go billing model. It provides a high economic benefit from highly elastic resource …
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Demographic Change, Social Security, and Lifetime Decision Making
… intuitive disutility of labor function, and a pay as you go (PAYG) social security system to investigate the impact of demographic change on lifetime decisions of consumption-saving and retirement. The demographic changes are in the form of mortality rates declining and compression of morbidity …
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An improved strategy to support multiple QoS assessment for selecting content adaptation services
… in providing ubiquitous access of the increasingly rich Internet multimedia contents (i.e., resources) to a variety of users’ requirement, along with their limited device’s capability (i.e., delivery contexts). Service Oriented Content Adaptation (SOCA) framework enables users to use content …
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Family Plans: Market Segmentation with Nonlinear Pricing
… firms often give consumers the option of purchasing an individual plan or a family plan. An individual plan gives a certain allowance of usage (e.g., minutes, data) for a single consumer, whereas a family plan allows multiple consumers to share a specific level of usage. The theoretical …
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Gateway to energy democracy and access in India using off-grid solar home systems and PayGo platform
… options, these citizens are forced to either go without power or burn kerosene or wood. There is an urgent need for the democratization of energy, which is defined as equitable access for smaller, disadvantaged energy consumers to the high-value energy options currently realized only by larger …
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Are solar home systems a more financially viable method of electrifying Ghana households?
Africa still has the lowest electrification rates in the world with over 600 million people estimated to be living without access to electricity. What makes the challenge even greater for Africa is that the continent is so sparsely populated that building grid infrastructure is not viable in many …
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Cost-Effective Resource Configurations for Executing Data-Intensive Workloads in Public Clouds
… offers “infinite” resources on demand, and on a pay-as-you-go basis. As a result, it has gained interest for large-scale data processing. Given this supposedly infinite resource set, we need a provisioning process to determine appropriate resources for data processing or workload execution. We …
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Trygg, sviken eller osäker : Tankar och förberedelser inför pensioneringen
… people's preparation for retirement. The study has been made through semi-structured interviews with 78 people born between the years 1931-1981 regarding their preparations for retirement. The analysis is based on the model Reflexive Planning for Later Life, coping, bounded rationality, …
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O potencial do mobility-as-a-service como facilitador de acesso a aeroportos
… acessível. Se por um lado o transporte aéreo assegura deslocamentos em curto espaço de tempo, por outro, muitos aeroportos situam-se afastados das regiões centrais das grandes cidades. Muitos aeroportos são acessíveis por uma diversidade de modos, tais como: carros particulares, táxis, trens, …
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Techniques for efficient high performance computing in the cloud
"The advantages of pay-as-you-go model, elasticity, and the flexibility and customization offered by virtualization make cloud computing an attractive option for meeting the needs of some High Performance Computing (HPC) users, especially those with emerging or sporadic demands. ""Computing or …
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Resilient payment systems
… From Chaum’s proposals in the 1980s for private payment systems to micropayments, previous attempts failed to take off for a variety of reasons, including non-existing markets, or issues pertaining to usability, scalability and performance, resilience against failure, and complexity of protocols. …
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Social Security reform in Spain
The Spanish public pension system is currently based on the pay as you go (PA YOO) principle. This thesis examines the current structure of this public system and its financial viability in the face of expected demographic changes. First, demographic and macroeconomic models were created extending …
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Essays on finance, learning, and macroeconomics
… can explain why the standard consumption-based asset pricing model produces large pricing errors for U.S. equity returns. I prove that under learning standard moment conditions need not hold in finite samples, leading to pricing errors. Simulations show that learning can generate …
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