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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"rebates"”.
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Incentives and disincentives for conserving renosterveld remnants and the potential impacts of property rate rebates
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-101).
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Effects Of E85 Fueling Stations And State Incentives On Private Flex Fuel Vehicle Demand
… state incentives including tax credit, purchase rebates, purchase loans, and tax exemption. Using fixed-effects linear model, random-effects tobit model, and fixed-effects instrumental variable model with fueling station incentives and government FFV fleet incentives as instruments, the results …
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Slotting Allowances, Failure Fees and Asymmetric Information in the Grocery Supply Chain
… slotting allowances, failure fees (or success rebates) and sales targets can separate products by their demand distributions and alleviate asymmetric information problems. Adverse selection problems can be reduced by utilizing such mechanisms to align incentives for retailers and manufacturers …
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Demand response at the Naval Postgraduate School
… during peak times and in return benefiting from rebates and support services that can help to adopt better energy saving practices.
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Three essays on energy economics: Policy options and evaluation
… of both developed and developing countries. Rebates that reward economic agents if they meet a minimum conservation threshold are a popular policy to encourage energy conservation. However, most threshold-based rebates are structured such that they do not encourage reduction beyond the …
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How Promotions Effect Consumer Purchases
… a preference for matching promotions over coupon rebates even when the two promotions types are strictly equivalent. An important question remaining is whether this result persists. This paper analyzes whether this seemingly anomalous behavior persists as individuals gain experience through …
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Peruvian trade policies in the 1960-1985 period
… are distinguished: import duties, duty rebates and import subsidies; export taxes and subsidies; quantitative restrictions; and exchange controls. An evaluation of these policies is presented in Chapter 4, especially in those aspects concerning the agricultural and manufacturing sectors, …
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Energy Efficiency In San Marcos, Texas: Is Our Rebate Program Up to Code?
… utility customers. In 2010, $42,424 in rebates was given, with 68 households receiving at least one rebate. Still, the program falls short, not reaching or educating enough potential customers to bring about significant change. This thesis explores and develops potential improvements to …
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Political Institutions and Carbon Taxation
… which are often characterized by exemptions and rebates for certain sectors and reductions in taxes on labor. Evidence is also found for spatial diffusion of ECT policies spreading outward from Northern Europe.
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Relanzamiento de la levadura fresca Fleischmann
… panaderías o con presencia de grupos musicales, rebates a los mayoristas y distribuidoras, aplicación de promociones, repartición de tabloides informativos, incentivos a la fuerza de ventas y demostraciones comparativas de productos. Estas actividades dieron como resultado un incremento del …
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Empirical evidence of utility sponsored conservation programs
… used to achieve this is to offer monetary rebates to purchasers of high-efficiency appliances. The costs of these conservation programs are then passed-on to all customers as increased energy prices. Economic theory predicts that the income and substitution affects should decrease the …
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Water Demand Projection Accuracy and Conservation Trends in California Cities
… initiatives toward outdoor-focused mandates and rebates. This shift in conservation strategy appears closely linked to the reduction in per capita demand that suppliers failed to anticipate. Our findings underscore the importance of incorporating dynamic conservation trends into demand …
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Essays in experimental industrial organization on economic issues of the digital age
… mechanisms can be remedied. We find that rebates are a suitable and easy-to-use tool that improves the success rate of projects, as backers are willing to pledge higher amounts.
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The Influence of Conservation Programs on Residential Water Demand: Synthesis and Analysis for Shared Vision Planning in the Rappahannock River Basin
… financial incentives (such as water pricing and rebates) or educational incentives (such as radio ads and bill inserts) to encourage conservation, and mandatory programs utilize regulatory incentives (such as plumbing standards and bans on outdoor water use). The water demand statistical model …
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An analysis of state aid to nonpublic elementary and secondary schools in the 50 states, 1970-1984
… loans, tuition tax credits (vouchers, rebates), and old book donations. Five types of aid were provided by fewer states at the end of the present study, while 16 types of aid were offered by more states in the 1970s than in the 1960s.</p> <p>Analysis and trends should interest public …
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Reducing Provincial Drug Plan Costs Through Regional Pooled-Purchasing Agreements
… enable members to maximize supplementary volume rebates from manufacturers. New Zealand’s national purchasing pool lowered drug prices between 21% and 79% less than prices paid in British Columbia for the same products in 2005. Purchasing pools in the United States designed to reduce the cost of …
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Green realities : the financial opportunities of environmental sensitive development in the commercial real estate development industry
… incentive programs can yield energy and capital rebates, tax savings, and free technical consulting. Finally, and perhaps the most significant finding of this thesis, integrative development processes reduce community and governmental friction, align project interests, and most importantly, …
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Developing high-frequency equities trading models
… bid/ask spread, but also from the transaction rebates offered by the numerous exchanges to those who provide liquidity. We believe that there are more opportunities to capture existing inefficiencies in this arena, and we show how with very simple mathematical and predictive tools, those …
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Water Conservation in Central Texas: Sustainable Water Savings and Future Applications
… fixture, rain barrel, and rain catchment system rebates and watering restrictions. Estimations of conservation savings necessary to meet projected water savings over the fifty year planning horizon were calculated equally over each decade and model outputs show that plumbing retrofit, rebate and …
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Characterizations of and closed-form solutions for plain vanilla and exotic derivatives
… exponential barrier options and associated rebates. The third essay models logarithmic asset prices under the physical probability measure as additive jump-diffusion processes. The corresponding risk-neutral probability measure is defined through an Esscher transform. We are interested in …
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