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Meier, Alan; Eide, Anita - 2008

were eliminated; however it does suggest that raising energyprices such as in the form of carbon taxes will not necessarily …

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Management accounting information in micro enterprises in Gaza

Alattar, Jalal M.; Kouhy, Reza; Innes, John - 2009

Purpose – Relatively little research exists about the information used by owner/managers (O/Ms) in micro enterprises (less than 10 employees). The purpose of this paper is to explore the management accounting information (MAI) generated and used by O/Ms for planning, decision making and...

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The Relative Impacts of U.S. Bio-Fuel Policies on Fuel-Energy Markets: A Comparative Static Analysis.

Kim, C.S.; Schaible, Glenn; Daberkow, Stan - 2010

Rapidly declining gasoline prices from their record high during the summer of 2008, while ethanol prices remained relatively high, made it difficult for many bio-fuel policy modelers to fully explain the impacts of U.S. bio-fuel policies on fuel prices. Using profit-maximization models for...

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Financial considerations of policy options to enhance biomass utilization for reducing wildfire hazards.

Becker, Dennis R.; Larson, Debra; Lowell, Eini C. - 2009

The Harvest Cost-Revenue Estimator, a financial model, was used to examine the cost sensitivity of forest biomass harvesting scenarios to targeted policies designed to stimulate wildfire hazardous fuel reduction projects. The policies selected represent actual policies enacted by federal and...

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Uniform and Non-Uniform Second-Best Input Taxes.

Claassen, Roger; Horan, Richard D. - 2001

We investigate second-best, input-based taxes foragricultural nonpoint pollution control when marketprices are … endogenous and production isheterogeneous. Theoretically, we derive the optimalforms of taxes which take account of heterogeneity …(non-uniform taxes) and a tax which does not (auniform tax). Empirically, we use a multi-factor,market-equilibrium simulation model to …

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Tax-deferred exchanges of farmland: theory and evidence from federal tax data.

Williamson, James M.; Brady, Michael P.; Durst, Ron - 2010

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the use of Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC), a piece of US tax law that allows for tax-deferred exchanges of like-kind property. Design/methodology/approach: The paper derives a theoretical premium value for exchanges and presents...

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Geysers Unit 18

Finney, John P. - 2006

those dividends are paid after taxes. When money borrowed to build a project costs more than you can earn on the project …

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Operations research and systems analysis of geopressured/geothermal resources in Texas. Final report

Lesso, W.G.; Zinn, C.D.; Cornwell, J. - 2007

A preliminary resource assessment, based on the best available parameters, was made to identify potentially suitable fairways. Of those examined only the Brazoria Fairway in the Frio Formation was able to produce sufficient fluid to meet the minimum requirements. These requirements are based...

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Intergenerational transfers and the social discount rate

Howarth, R.B.; Norgaard, R.B. - 2008

This paper investigates the relationship between intergenerational asset transfers and the choice of the discount rate for use in cost-benefit analysis in a model of a competitive overlapping generations economy constrained by a socially managed exhaustible resource. Provided that there are no...

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ELSA: an electric power supply analysis model for the Pacific Northwest. [Effects of developments]

Harrington, T.P.; Jacobsen, J.J. - 2008

Battelle, Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL) is conducting a program to help assess impacts of energy-related developments through the year 2025 in six northwestern states--Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Alaska. ELSA (Electric Power Supply Analysis Model), one component of this...

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