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The impact of transaction costs on the participation of smallholder farmers and intermediaries in the banana markets of Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda
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2011-06-23
Person:  Jagwe, John Nkalubo
Publisher:  University of Pretoria
Affiliated person:  C L Machethe
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accorded to farmers while ignoring middlemen/traders who arealso part of the marketing system. Furthermore ... which incorporated fixed andproportional transaction costs in the function of maximising utility subject ... participation of smallholder farmers in markets. Belonging to farmer groupsfacilitates information exchange ...

 
 
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Voter Behavior and Seniority Advantage in Pork Barrel Politics
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2011-04
Person:  Rodet, Cortney S.
Institution:  Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
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This paper uses experiments to explore electoral accountability in a legislative system that favors ... tested as a mechanism to reduce the cost of searching for a legislator who better represents voters on ... abortion are used in an innovative means of capturing incumbents’ policy choices where subject legislators ...

 
 
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Evolution of the Governmental Accounting Reform implementation in Greek Public Hospitals: Testing the institutional framework
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2011-01-31
Person:  Stamatiadis, Filippos; Eriotis, Nikolaos
Institution:  Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
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production, the Greek government imposed in 2003 an accrual basis financial and cost accounting system in all ... public hospitals of the National Health System (NHS). The purpose of this study is not to investigate ... basis financial and especially cost accounting adoption in Greek public hospitals is realized only to a ...

 
 
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Capital regulation of financial institutions, the role of ratings and the tension field between regulation and economic reality..
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2011-01-26
Person:  Van Laere, Elisabeth
Institution:  Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
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liquidity crisis that is still having a profound impact on the cost and availability of credit, financial ... system? Theory and evidence on capital regulation in Europe Traditionally capital requirements have been ... requirements in place have been found inadequate, and as a reaction major steps to move the banking system are ...

 
 
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Risk Classification and Health Insurance
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information. An efficient risk classification system generates premiums that fully reflect the expected cost ... , risk classification is also subject to concerns about social equity and potential discrimination. We ... asymmetric information. ...

 
 
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CONSUMER DISPUTE RESOLUTION: THE WAY FORWARD
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2011
Person:  Abedi, Fahimeh; Yusoff-PhD, Sakina Shaik Ahmad
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information technology have combined into a new system, which is more effective, more flexible and less costly ... , share information, converse and develop communities across borders of space and time on virtually every ... subject. The emergence of the internet as a tool in the ecommerce for the transactions between businesses ...

 
 
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CONSUMER DISPUTE RESOLUTION: THE WAY FORWARD
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2011
Person:  Abedi, Fahimeh; Yusoff-PhD, Sakina Shaik Ahmad
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information technology have combined into a new system, which is more effective, more flexible and less costly ... , share information, converse and develop communities across borders of space and time on virtually every ... subject. The emergence of the internet as a tool in the ecommerce for the transactions between businesses ...

 
 
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Machined part cost estimating in SMEs: a feature-driven case-based approach
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2010-03
Person:  Dimmock, S. I.
Publisher:  Cranfield University
Affiliated person:  Greenough, Richard; Tjahjono, Benny; Clark, G.; Hadley, S. J. Industrial Supervisor
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knowledge;before determining that an intelligent information system offered the most beneficialsolution to ... information management inestimating can improve process performance and contribute to increasedcompetitiveness ... .The research which is the subject of this thesis investigated whether a systemsapproach to machined part ...

 
 
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Reducing the use of ineffective health care interventions. CHERE Working Paper 2010/5
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technology is advancing rapidly, there remain very many technologies in use which have not been subject to ... case studies and pilot projects. There is limited information available on the mechanisms used, and no ... limited information available on how these were identified, how disinvestment is implemented, or what the ...

 
 
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Essays on insurance and taxation
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2010
Person:  Scheuer, Florian
Publisher:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Affiliated person:  Daron Acemoglu and Iván Werning.
Institution:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics.
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information economy with endogenous firm formation. Individuals differ in both their skill and their cost of ... setting up a firm, and choose between becoming workers and entrepreneurs. I show that a tax system in ... which entrepreneurial profits and labor income must be subject to the same non-linear tax schedule makes ...

 
 
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Research guidance studies. Quarterly progress report, April--June 1996
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2009-11-10
Person:  Gray, D.; Tomlinson, G.
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Coal Liquefaction technology is the subject of the analyses, and in subtask (b), Indirect Liquefaction ... for several years. These models are constantly being updated and improved as more data and better cost ... information becomes available. These models also include detailed refinery models based on bench ...

 
 
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Verslo taisyklių valdymo sistemų taikymo įmonėse tyrimas
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2009-05-04
Person:  Avdejenkov, Vladimir
Publisher:  Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT) / Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
Affiliated person:  Vasilecas, Olegas; Čenys, Antanas; Baronas, Romas; Čaplinskas, Albertas; Denisovas, Vitalijus; Navakauskas, Dalius; Dzemyda, Gintautas; Šeinauskas, Rimantas
Institution:  Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
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business management information systems of enterprises. The main subject of the study is the use of ... database management system triggers. This method is suitable when the use of other methods of integration ... is either impossible or not cost-efficient. The method allows to create, edit, manage and install ...

 
 
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A dynamic rerouting model for air traffic flow management
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2009
Person:  Mukherjee, Avijit; Hansen, Mark
Publisher:  Elsevier
Published in:  Transportation Research Part B: Methodological
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to an airport when both the airport itself and its approach routes are subject to adverse weather. In ... Collaborative Decision Making, which is the governing philosophy of the air traffic management system of the ... experimental results indicate that making rerouting decisions dynamically results in 10-15% delay cost ...

 
 
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Assessing the impact of inventory inaccuracies within a Newsvendor framework
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2009
Person:  Sahin, Evren; Dallery, Yves
Publisher:  Elsevier
Published in:  European Journal of Operational Research
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warehouse inventory is based on inventory data recorded in the information system. We assume that the ... subject to inaccuracies in inventory data. The wholesaler's decision regarding the management of his ... wholesaler uses barcode labels and scanners in order to gather information concerning the available inventory ...

 
 
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Three Essays on Analyses of Marine Resources Management with Micro-data
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2009
Person:  Huang, Ling
Affiliated person:  Smith, Martin D.
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common-pool resources, empirically we have limited information about the micro-level mechanisms that ... -specific limited entry system with transferrable permits, and then quantify the dynamic efficiency costs of ... translates into 31.4\% of the rent without deducting the cost of capital.

Chapter 2: Although hypoxia ...


 
 
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The alignment of the information technology’s Enterprise Resource Planning rollout strategy with the business strategy in a semi-governmental organisation
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2008-07-10
Person:  Bopape, H.M.; Lubbe, Sam; Klopper, Rembrandt
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-plementation of this type of integrated system is difficult and high in cost. It places immense strain on time and ... Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are highly intricate Information Systems (IS). The im ... organisation, was selected as the research subject. The organisation’s alignment of its IT ERP rollout strategy ...

 
 
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Transport of solid commodities via freight pipeline: cost estimating methodology. Volume III, parts A and B. First year final report
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2008-02-06
Person:  Warner, J.A.; Morlok, E.K.; Gimm, K.K.; Zandi, I.
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cost equations for various competing transportation modes. This volume presents cost ... equations that approximate the fully allocated and variable costs contained in the ICC cost tables for rail ... development of a set of engineering cost equations for pneumo-capsule pipelines. The development was based on ...

 
 
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Current trends in the evolution of bank costs within the framework of the Romanian banking system
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2008
Person:  DESPATIE, Robert; Coana, Rodica; FODOR, Iudit
Institution:  Facultatea de Economie şi Administrarea Afacerilor, Universitatea din Craiova
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The banking incomes and costs represent an important source of information regarding the ... profitability of a bank. In a banking environment such as Romania's, constantly changing and subject to the ... costs within the framework of the Romanian banking system, analysis which targets their structure on one ...

 
 
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PROTECTED HORTICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT. AN INTEGRAL DECISION MODEL FOR GREENHOUSE WASTE MANAGEMENT IN SOUTHEASTERN SPAIN
Year:                     
2008
Person:  Gomez, Salvador Parra
Institution:  European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE
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Information System (GIS) has been used to locate an optimal zone for a composting plant. The solution obtained ... vegetable waste are a potential breeding ground for diseases and pests, they can also be the subject of ... minimizes the transportation cost of organic waste. It represents 40% of the total cost at current market ...

 
 
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Essays in macroeconomics and experiments
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2008
Person:  Shurchkov, Olga
Publisher:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Affiliated person:  George-Marios Angeletos.
Institution:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics.
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designed to capture the role of information and coordination in speculative attacks. The game has a large ... decreasing in both the underlying strength of the status quo and the agents' cost of attacking. Furthermore ... , implying that a new attack is possible only if agents receive new information. Our experimental evidence ...

 
 
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Reflections on Multilevel Legitimacy
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2007-07-04
Person:  Scharpf, Fritz W.
Institution:  Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
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anything that I have written on the subject - and I certainly will not bore you with a restatement. But I ... , growing electoral volatility, more rapid government turnover, the rise of radical or system-critical ... quality of the responses and their causal significance remain dubious at best. Information on the ...

 
 
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Explaining a productive decade
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2007
Person:  Oliner, Stephen D.; Daniel E. Sichel.; Stiroh, Kevin J.
Institution:  Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System)
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and industry-level data. We confirm the central role for information technology (IT) in the ... . Productivity growth after 2000 appears to have been boosted by industry restructuring and cost cutting in ... examine the outlook for trend growth in labor productivity; our estimate, though subject to much ...

 
 
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Methodology and Estimation of the Welfare Impact of Energy Reforms on Households in Azerbaijan
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2006-06-07
Person:  Klytchnikova, Irina
Affiliated person:  Just, Richard
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infrastructure services in developing countries where data are limited and supply is subject to interruptions ... services so that they reach the cost recovery level. Currently, households in rural areas receive ... are derived from a system of fuel demands that takes into account the intermittent availability of ...

 
 
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Fair Enough: Ethics and Entrepreneurship
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2006-06
Person:  Crawford, Robert G.
Publisher:  Yale University
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interpreting results of the process is a judgment subject to disagreement. None the less, the need for the ... prohibition cost the United States more than the imagined cost of its legalization would, as evidenced in some ... subject to constraints. This perspective of contemporary economic theory and business thought make it ...

 
 
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Robustness in monetary policymaking: a case for the Friedman rule
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2006-04-19
Person:  Kilponen, Juha; Leitemo, Kai
Institution:  Suomen Pankki
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Inflation targeting involves using all available information in stabilizing inflation around some ... hence its de-termination is subject to much model uncertainty which the central bank will want to guard ... against using robust policies. Such robustness comes however with the cost of increased social loss under ...

 
 
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Rational Entrepreneurship in Local China: Exit Plus Voice for Preferential Tax Treatments
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information of exit cost, firm is able to mimic behaviors of those with high mobility so as to boost the ... Bearing the legacy from central-planned system, the tax system in local China still lacks ... subject to negotiation despite the new tax-reform 1994. Applying Hirschman’s Exit-Voice theory, we ...

 
 
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The Cost of Disputes in Companies and the Use of ADR Methods: Lessons from Nine Latin American Countries
Year:                     
2006-01
Person:  Bank, Inter-American Development
Institution:  Inter-American Development Bank
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, providing empirical information on the cost of disputes within companies; ii) it evaluates in a comparative ... reasons: i) it is the first comparative study on the subject that has ever been conducted in the region ... as the relationship between companies and the judicial system; and iii) it targets the private sector ...

 
 
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Eine panelökonometrische Evaluation des deutschen Strafverfolgungssystems
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2006
Person:  Spengler, Hannes
Institution:  Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Justus-Liebig-Universität
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punishment. Moreover, it makes a difference whether offenders are subject to general of juvenile criminal law ... combining information from different sources of official judicial statistics covering the German states for ... the period 1977-2001. Building on this database a comprehensive system of criminal prosecution ...

 
 
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Eine panelökonometrische Überprüfung der ökonomischen Theorie der Kriminalität mit deutschen Bundesländerdaten
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Jan. 2006
Affiliated person:  Spengler, Hannes
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punishment. Moreover, it makes a difference whether offenders are subject to general or juvenile criminal law ... combining information from different sources of official judicial statistics covering the German states for ... the period 19772001. Building on this database a comprehensive system of criminal prosecution ...

 
 
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Eine panelökonometrische Überprüfung der ökonomischen Theorie der Kriminalität mit deutschen Bundesländerdaten
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2006
Person:  Spengler, Hannes
Institution:  DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung)
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punishment. Moreover, it makes a difference whether offenders are subject to general or juvenile criminal law ... combining information from different sources of official judicial statistics covering the German states for ... the period 1977-2001. Building on this database a comprehensive system of criminal prosecution ...

 
 
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The airport Network and Catchment area Competition Model - A comprehensive airport demand forecasting system using a partially observed database
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2005-08
Person:  Kroes, Eric; Lierens, Abigail; Kouwenhoven, Marco
Institution:  European Regional Science Association
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comprehensive, pragmatic air demand model system that has been implemented for Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport ... , airlines/alliances/low cost carriers, types of flight (direct versus transfer), air routes, and main modes ... - information was available for air passengers using Schiphol Airport in 2003, no such data was available for ...

 
 
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Technical Documentation of the Regional Manure Management Model for the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
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2005
Person:  Aillery, Marcel P.; Gollehon, Noel R.; Breneman, Vincent E.
Institution:  Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture
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sector, subject to land availability and policy provisions. A defining feature of the modeling system ... Improved Water Quality," is used to evaluate the cost and feasibility of manure land application as a ... involves the integration within an optimization framework of spatial data from a Geographic Information ...

 
 
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Funzionamento della giustizia civile e struttura finanziaria delle imprese: il ruolo del credito commerciale
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2004-06
Person:  Carmignani, Amanda
Institution:  Banca d'Italia
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illiquid, inputs are less easily diverted than cash, hence trade credit providers are less subject to moral ... information problems are more significant. The issue is analysed by using information on firm ... ’ characteristics such as their credit-worthiness and the average cost of funds. ...

 
 
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A Mobile Platform for Roadway Incident Documentation
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2004-01-01
Person:  Su, Ray J.; Chan, Ching-Yao
Institution:  Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS), University of California-Berkeley
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transportation system are significant in terms of their direct hazards and the associated losses in time delays ... , energy usage, and environmental impact. The subject discussed in this report focuses on the post-incident ... developments of powerful processors and low-cost electronics, there have been a large number of hand ...

 
 
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Decision Support Technology for Public Safety Resource Allocation: Location of Fire Stations in a Fiscally Constrained Environment
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2004-01-01
Person:  Wendholt, Amy Jo; Johnson, Michael P.
Publisher:  Research Showcase
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culmination of efforts to design and implement an information system to aid City decision makers in designing ... goals of the decision makers.This system methodology was developed using best practices from the ... disciplines of management science, information systems and policy analysis. It is not intended to provide a ...

 
 
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Industry Dynamics and Secondary Markets: Theory and Evidence from Commercial Aviation
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2004
Person:  Gavazza, Alessandro
Institution:  Society for Economic Dynamics - SED
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aviation software company. AVSOFT produces a detailed information system database for the aviation market ... turnover of firms, since price-cost margins are smaller. In the absence of transaction costs, leasing plays ... rental market. We then introduce transaction costs on resale but not on leasing. The transaction cost is ...

 
 
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Modelling the choice between regulation and liability in terms of social welfare
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2004
Person:  Boyer, Marcel; Porrini, Donatella
Institution:  Canadian Economics Association - CEA
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welfare superior, inferior, or equivalent to a system based on an incentive regulatory scheme subject to ... Using a formal political economy model with asymmetric information, we illustrate the conditions ... under which an environmental protection system based on extending liability to private financiers is ...

 
 
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Ruin probability under compound poisson models with random discount factor
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2004
Person:  Ng, KW; Yang, H; Zhang, L
Publisher:  Cambridge University Press
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/inventory system. In this article, we consider a periodic-review inventory system subject to random demand ... also discuss the backorder case, for both the discounted and long-run average cost criteria. For the ... linear cost model, we derive the structural properties and bounds of the optimal policy. We also propose ...

 
 
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Imputed an Presumptive Taxes: International Experiences and Lessons for Russia
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2002-03-01
Person:  Wallace, Sally
Institution:  International Studies Program, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
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, record keeping, and tax administration in order to balance various goals of the tax system including ... individuals remain outside of the tax system through use of different types of evasion or avoidance. In many ... with record keeping and the need for specialized information to comply with complex tax laws. At the ...

 
 
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Modeling the Choice Between Regulation and Liability in Terms of Social Welfare
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2002-02-01
Person:  Boyer, Marcel; Porrini, Donatella
Institution:  Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO)
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equivalent to a system based on an incentive regulatory scheme subject to capture by the regulatees. We ... Using a formal political economy model with incomplete information regarding the accident ... conditions under which an environmental protection system based on extending liability to private financiers ...

 
 
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Microeconomic reform of wholesale power markets: a dynamic partial equilibrium analysis of the impact of restructuring and deregulation in Queensland
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2002-01-01
Person:  Simshauser, Paul Edward
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and adaptation of a suite of economic cost and generation system simulation models to test the stated ... explored under specified scenarios using the economic cost and generation system simulation models ... increasing. While system thermal efficiency is declining, the rush of new, low-cost coal-fired capacity ...

 
 
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The Transformation of China's Health Care System and Accounting Methods: Current Reforms and Developments
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2002-01
Person:  Rask, Kolleen Joanne; Chu, David
Institution:  Department of Economics and Accounting, College of the Holy Cross
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signaling a need for a new accounting system that would provide information to managers and resource ... information system that serves neither the need of managers nor external resource providers. In January 1999 ... health care system in transition to highlight the changing role and nature of accounting services before ...

 
 
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Searching for New Regulatory Frameworks for the Intermediate Financial Structure in Post-Crisis Asia
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2001-07
Person:  Shirai, Sayuri
Institution:  Financial Institutions Center, Wharton School of Business
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debentures. This support system may make bank debentures an attractive payment reserve assets for commercial ... , banks will be encouraged to spend more resources in generating inside information about their clients ... banks. Furthermore, since banks already possess inside information about their clients through ...

 
 
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Capital Budgeting, the Hold-up Problem, and Information System Design
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In this article, we explore the connection between information system design and incentives for ... project search. The choice of an information system affects the level of managerial slack that is ... project. To trade off the costs and benefits of slack in our model, an optimal information system ...

 
 
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Information, Contracting, and Quality Costs
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2000
Person:  Baiman, Stanley; Fischer, Paul E.; Rajan, Madhav V.
Institution:  Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences - INFORMS
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lower relative to first-best. We then show that installing an information system that makes the ... This article analyzes the relation between product quality, the cost of quality, and the ... information that can be contracted upon. We consider a setting where a risk neutral supplier sells an ...

 
 
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Mutual funds and institutional investments - what is the most efficient way to set up individual accounts in a social security system?
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1999-04-30
Person:  James, Estelle; Ferrier, Gary; Smalhout, James; Vittas, Dimitri
Institution:  Economics Research, World Bank Group
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-effective way to organize a system with mandatory individual accounts? How does the cost of an efficient ... individual account system compare with that of a single centralized fund? And are the cost differentials ... security systems is that they are too expensive. The authors investigate the cost-effectiveness of three ...

 
 
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What price civil justice?
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1998-11
Person:  Main, Brian G; Peacock, Alan
Institution:  School of Economics, University of Edinburgh
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improved information flows for consumers, and provision for innovations such as cost capping and risk ... In the jurisdictions both of England and Wales and of Scotland, the civil justice system is ... currently the subject of intense critical appraisal. This paper considers the current status of civil ...

 
 
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Expenditure Decentralization and the Delivery of Public Services in Developing Countries
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1998-11
Person:  Bardhan, Pranab; Mookherjee, Dilip
Institution:  Institute for Economic Development, Department of Economics
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cost control. In a decentralized system, it is allocated instead to elected local governments or client ... governments have all the bargaining power and access to relevant cost information vis-a-vis public enterprise ... methods of delegating authority over the delivery of public services, on the targeting and cost ...

 
 
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Pension reform in Bolivia : innovative solutions to common problems
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1997-09-01
Person:  von Gersdorff, Hermann
Institution:  Economics Research, World Bank Group
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-go system and its replacement by a defined-contribution system based on individual capitalization ... accounts and managed by the private sector. The pensions of the old system will be covered by the Bolivian ... Treasury. Workers will receive compensatory pensions for their contributions to the old system. These will ...

 
 
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Emission trading in Europe with an exchange rate
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1994
Person:  Klaassen, Ger; Førsund, Finn; Amann, Markus
Institution:  European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
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: pre-trade emission levels, the transaction costs, the availability of information on potential cost ... the deposition. It is shown that, generally, this system will not achieve the optimal solution and ... , subject to an exchange rate. In the example used, results for SO2 emissions in ...

 
 
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