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Research and development towards green technologies under technical and policy uncertainty

Valeria Jana Schwanitz - 2010

Green technological progress bears a strong potential to alleviate climate change, but its utilization is contingent on factors which are by nature impossible to anticipate or predict. Developing stochastic optimisation models, we explore how the decision to invest in research and development...

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The Influence of Taxes on Investment and Labor Supply Decisions - Experimental Analyses of Tax Perception

Fochmann, Martin - 2011

Laborexperiment sollten die Teilnehmer eine Entscheidung über die genaue Höhe einer Investition treffen. In verschiedenen Treatments …In this thesis, the effect of tax perception on investment behavior and labor supply decisions is analyzed using … investment behavior which is consistent with theory. However, an income tax with a limited or unlimited loss offset provision …

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Effects of federal risk management programs on investment, production, and contract design under uncertainty

Leatham, David J. (contributor) - 2004

managementprograms on investment, production, and contract design are investigated.The dissertation is comprised of three essays. The …

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Essays in Telecommunications Economics

Heimeshoff, Gerrit Ulrich - 2008

the determinants of telecommunications investments and presents two possible solutions to the investment problem. The …

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What is good work? Different aspects of labor contracts in theory and experiment

Bleich, Sabrina - 2009

unobservable intrinsic motivation and endogenous observable qualification. The impact of wage flexibility on contract terms and …

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Cost-Responsiveness of Conservation Practice Adoption: A Revealed Preference Approach

Lichtenberg, Erik - 2004

While there is current interest in reorienting agricultural policy toward environmental and resource conservation goals, relatively little is known about the influence of cost on conservation adoption decisions or about how farmers combine multiple practices into an overall conservation package....

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Transaction cost and host country’s opportunistic behavior in oil E

Jablonowski, Christopher J. (contributor) - 2011

The purpose of this paper is to understand why a host country (HC) shows ex post opportunistic behaviors in E&P projects and frequently forces international oil companies (IOCs) to renegotiate previously signed contracts. This research employs the concept of asset specificity and hold-up problem...

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Net Neutrality and Investment Incentives

Choi, Jay Pil; Kim, Byung-Cheol - Michigan State University; Georgia Institute of Technology - 2008

This paper analyzes the effects of net neutrality regulation oninvestment incentives for Internet service providers (ISPs) and contentproviders (CPs), and their implications for social welfare. We show thatthe ISP s decision on the introduction of discrimination across contentdepends on a...

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The Choice of Land Tenure Contracts in the Presence of Transaction Costs in Rice Farming in West Java, Indonesia.

Jamal, Erizal; Mardiharini, Maesti - 2009

This study assessed the preference for and efficiency of land tenure contract arrangements in rice farming in West Java …, Indonesia. Specifically, it examined the transaction costs associated with land tenure contracts, the land tenure contract … contract choice of landlord’s is influenced by the transaction cost. The results show that sharecropping is the more efficient …

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LAND LEASE MARKETS AND AGRICULTURAL EFFICIENCY: THEORY AND EVIDENCE FROM ETHIOPIA

Pender, John L.; Fafchamps, Marcel - 2001

, supporting the New School perspective relative to the other two models. Land contract choice is found to depend upon the social …

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