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Showing 1 to 20 of 549 for “"subsidies"”.
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Effects of Subsidies on Optimized Bus Transportation
… The most interesting results indicate that as subsidies increase, the social welfare increases much less than proportionally, for either type of bus service and for practically all circumstances considered. Sensitivity analyses are conducted for the effects of input parameters (i.e., potential …
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Private v. public subsidies : an analysis of Chapter 774 subsidies for the production of low and moderate income rental housing
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1988.
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Encouraging Organic Agriculture: The Effects of Conversion Subsidies
… thesis examines the importance of conversional subsidies in accounting for an increase in organic acreage in the 12 North-Central States in the United States. Monthly time series data that spans from January 2002 to December 2014 was used in the analysis. Empirical evidence suggests that …
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Costs and benefits of electricity subsidies in Uganda
Electricity subsidies in Uganda have been pervasive in support of industrial output and government revenues since 2005, until their reduction in January 2012. While economic theory suggests that market mechanisms maximise social welfare, the necessity for subsidies arises when a markets fail. …
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The Economics of Entrepreneurship: Subsidies, Risk and Tax Evasion
… model to investigate whether state level subsidies increased the health insurance take-up rate among the self-employed. The findings suggest that, in fact, these types of subsidies did increase the probability that a self-employed individual would be self-insured. The second chapter …
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An analysis of subsidies within the plastics recycling industry
… of PET through the administration of recycling subsidies and the unlocking of constraints in the PET recycling value chain. This study sets out to describe the PET recycling industry and empirically assess the effectiveness of PETCO's recycling subsidies through regression analysis. As a …
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A Transport Justice Evaluation of Employer-Based Transit Subsidies
… commuting suggest that employer-based transit subsidies may be inaccessible to the vast majority of the working poor. My main purpose with this study is to increase our understanding of employer-based transit subsidies from a transport justice perspective. I apply the theory of transport …
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RESOURCE SUBSIDIES ACROSS THE AQUATIC-TERRESTRIAL BOUNDARIES OF TEMPORARY PONDS
… terrestrial environments via reciprocal subsidies. Much of the research on these subsidies has been focused on streams, while subsidies across aquatic-terrestrial boundaries of other aquatic systems, like temporary ponds, have received little attention. Temporary ponds are seasonally …
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Corporate subsidies in Maine : what Mainers got for their money
… reports filed by 188 companies that received subsidies from the State of Maine in 1998. Because of significant flaws in the data, generalizations are hazardous. However, three major sets of findings were evident: while the major goal of the program was job creation, followed by job retention, …
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The incidence of U.S. agricultural subsidies on farmland rental rates
This paper identifies the effect of agricultural subsidies on farmland rental rates in the United States. Rental agreements are primarily between farmers and non-farmer landlords, but no evidence exists concerning the incidence of subsidies on these two groups. By exploiting a unique policy change …
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Subsidies, aquaculture technology adoption, and welfare impacts in Ghana and Kenya
<p>This dissertation empirically examines subsidies, aquaculture technology adoption, and welfare implications of fish farming households in Ghana and Kenya. It is divided into three separate chapters, each addressing a specific empirical issue related to aquaculture in the countries.</p> <p>The …
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Start-up subsidies for the unemployed - New evaluation approaches and insights
… ALMP instruments like training measures, wage subsidies, or job creation schemes, which are aimed at reintegrating unemployed individuals into dependent employment, start-up incentives are a fundamentally different approach to ALMP, in that they intend to encourage and help unemployed …
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The Shifting of Corporate Capital Acquisition Tax Subsidies: An Empirical Analysis
… benefits associated with capital acquisition tax subsidies, and whether such shifting behavior is affected by the competitive pressures in the marketplace (as reflected by industry barriers to entry). The capital acquisition tax subsidy is defined as the sum of the tax savings derived from the …
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Essays on U.S. agricultural policy : subsidies, crop insurance, and environmental auctions
… The first chapter asks how agricultural subsidies affect farmland rental rates. Chapter two examines the relative effects of ad hoc disaster payments and crop insurance, focusing on the potential to smooth income shocks, and the final chapter studies the targeting efficiency of the …
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Examining the Experiences of Smallholder farmers in Malawi towards Farm Input Subsidies
The author of this dissertation is the last born in their family. He was born and grew up in the rural area of the Blantyre district of the beloved country Malawi which is also popularly known as the warm heart of Africa for its friendly people. Our African belief states that one's strength is made …
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Property values, housing subsidies and incentives : evidence from Chile's current housing policies
This study evaluates the performance of low income housing subsidy programs currently operating in Chile. The use of detailed microdata allows a close assessment of the relationship between individual subsidy grants, characteristics of the units purchased and actual transaction prices. The study …
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An analysis of the financing of soil conservation subsidies on high country properties
Subsidies are made available to New Zealand farmers who undertake soil conservation programmes. This thesis is concerned with alternative financing proposals for subsidies given to farmers undertaking soil conservation programmes on high country sheep farms. The results establish that the present …
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Human Capital Outcomes for Children : The Impact of School Subsidies and Natural Disasters.
Visualizing Real Time Vasomotion in vivo Using Optical Coherence Tomography.
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The role of production subsidies in general equilibrium macroeconomic models with imperfect competition
Industrial policy in the form of direct and indirect government subsidy provision to firms in specific sectors of the economy is a common sight in many countries. Some of the most often quoted examples are East Asian economies such as japan and Taiwan. While industrial policy is touted as a …
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