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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"windfall"”.
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Security in network games
… game which makes it possible to achieve the 'windfall of malice' even without the actual presence of malicious players. We also show the limitations of this technique for congestion games that are known to have a windfall of malice.
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Climate policy and the airline industry : emissions trading and renewable jet fuel
… costs associated with free allowances, windfall gains may be substantial at about $2.6bn because under current allocation rules, airlines would only have to purchase about a third of the required allowances. However, an increase in the proportion of allowances auctioned would reduce …
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THREE ESSAYS IN LABOR FINANCE
… corporate hiring sensitivities to a sudden tax windfall, documenting substantial nationwide heterogeneous responses across geographies, ownership types, and worker prospects. Chapters two and three focus on the innovation side of corporate human capital. I develop separate research and …
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Jackpot! The Employment Effects of Gaming Revenue Allocation Plans on Native American Tribes
… income effect. Instead, the study suggests that windfall (or non-labor) income on these tribes has a positive, yet small, effect on labor supply.
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From wealth to well-being : spending money on others promotes happiness
… survey (Study 1), a longitudinal study of windfall spending (Study 2), and an experimental study in which participants were randomly assigned to spend money on themselves or others (Study 3). We also found that people believe that spending on themselves, as opposed to others, will make them …
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ARAACtional exuberance : lessons and prospects for age-restricted active adult housing development in Massachusetts
… in the belief that they would bring a fiscal windfall. After a thorough exegesis of the legal, policy, and economic factors at play in this finding, I propose a new framework that municipalities can use to better manage the supply and form of ARAACs and conclude with key findings and …
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And Chaos Whence? Canadian Energy Politics, 1973-1984
… of oil continuing to increase and capturing this windfall to fund various federal programs, only for the price of oil to rapidly deteriorate shortly after the program’s implementation. This thesis uses these cases to reflect upon how uncertainty is generated and the role of socioeconomic beliefs …
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Impact of carbon emission regulatory policies on the electricity market : a simulation study
… reduction targets. We observe significant windfall profit for electricity producers under the cap-and-trade policy. Therefore for the same emission level the cost to consumers is higher under cap-and-trade policy as compared to taxation policy. Our results suggest that cap-and-trade policy …
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Fairness expectations in the first year of life
… the possibility that young infants might expect windfall resources to be divided equally between similar recipients but might demonstrate this expectation only under very simple conditions. In three violation-of-expectation experiments, 9-month-olds (N = 120) expected an experimenter to divide …
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Early reasoning about moral obligations and rights
… example, infants expect an individual to divide windfall resources equally between similar recipients (e.g., Buyukozer-Dawkins, et al., 2019) and to provide help to an ingroup member in need (helping or ignoring an outgroup member in need are both viewed as acceptable; e.g., Jin & Baillargeon, …
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Natural Resources Development in the Republic of Sakha: Russia's Diamond Producing Region
… industry. In Sakha, enormous real and potential windfall from natural resource development amplifies the existing chaos, typical in Russia, caused by the tangle of economic transition, regionalism, ethnic politics, and corruption. The last one hundred years of development and reform in the …
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Three essays on Native American economic development
… business corporations. After adjustment for windfall tax preferences and natural resource asset sales the 12 regional corporations lost 80 percent of their cash endowment -- about $380 million -- in business operations between 1973 and 1993. The corporations channeled resources toward …
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Behavioural and physiological responses of chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) to wildfire in the Cape Peninsula of South Africa
… result of the fire. This unexpected nutritional windfall, in addition to the inclusion of vineyards within their ranging patterns, may explain why there were no physiological indicators of nutritional stress despite the loss of most above ground biomass. Despite suffering the loss of 12 troop …
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Developmental underpinnings of expectations of equity and attitudes toward resource disparities
… infants expected an experimenter to give new windfall resources to an individual with no resources as opposed to an individual who already had similar resources. Infants thus found it unexpected when the experimenter either gave the new resources to the resource-rich individual or divided them …
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Stromerzeugung in Deutschland unter den Rahmenbedingungen von Klimapolitik und liberalisiertem Strommarkt : Bewertung von Kraftwerksinvestitionen mit Bayes’schen Einflussdiagrammen
… gratis zugeteilten Emissionsrechten, welche hohe Windfall-Profite generieren. Dadurch erweist sich der Emissionshandel in seiner konkreten Ausgestaltung insgesamt als gewinnbringendes Geschäft. Über die Restlaufzeit der Bestandskraftwerke resultiert ab 2008 aus der Einführung des Emissionshandels …
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Banks and inflation
… downward, banks are in a position to earn some windfall gains from inflation. The third section of the dissertation analyzes bank portfolio behavior under both anticipated and unanticipated inflation. It is shown that unanticipated inflation forces the banks to alter their portfolio of income …
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Internalization of Escherichia Coli in Apples Under Field and Laboratory Conditions
… placed randomly on the soil much like a drop or windfall apple. The position was noted as to whether the apple fell calyx up, down or on its side. Apples were examined for the presence of E. coli and sampled on days 1, 3, 8, and 10. Skin, flesh, inner, and outer core samples were plated on …
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Aplicación del análisis tecno-económico a la gestión del espectro radioeléctrico. El caso de la reutilización de las bandas GSM en Europa
… increase the value of these licenses providing windfall profits to current licensees; 2) potential competition distortions that may arise in mobile communications market as a consequence of the uneven access to the 900MHz frequency band by the different mobile operators. In this dissertation, …
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Substitution effect through fiscal transfers?! : incidence of the Peruvian property tax
… In 2006, the share was closer to 6% due to windfall transfers. The property tax can enhance accountability at the local level and has important impacts on urban spatial development. It is also important considering that most charges or transfers are earmarked such that property tax yields …
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Nutrient fluxes and soil microbial processes
… of Norway spruce such as susceptibility to windfall, forest dieback, drought, as well as soil acidification have caused negative ecological impacts in many sites. Conversion of conifers into deciduous or mixed stands has been suggested by some foresters, in order to improve the stability, …
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