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"Sustainable Biofuel Production in Tropical and Subtropical Countries"; 12 June 2008 - Workshop proceedings

Kaphengst, Timo; Schlegel, Stephanie - 2008

In January 2008 the European Commission (EC) presented an integrated Climate and Energy package to cut emissions for the 21st Century, including proposals for specific targets on renewable energy (20% by 2020) and greenhouse gas emissions reduction (20% by 2020). The package, amongst others,...

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14.471 Public Economics I, Fall 2003

Poterba, James M. - 2003

taxation on labor supply and savings; corrective taxes for externalities; taxation and corporate behavior; and tax expenditure …

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The Clean Development Mechanism and Least Developed Countries: Key Determinants for Enhancing Climate Change Mitigative Capacity with Case Study Analysis of Niger.

Winkelman, Andrew Gene - 2011

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol offers developing countries the opportunity to participate in the effort to reduce global greenhouse gas levels while also benefitting from sustainable development opportunities. To date, the majority of CDM investments have gone to...

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Value of Learning and Acting On Customer Information

Cao, H. Henry; Sun, Bao-Hong - 2007

The rapid growth in demand and supply of sophisticated data mining and analytical decision tools calls for research to understand the value of learning, as well as how learning interacts with firms’ day-to-day marketing strategies.In this paper, we consider a market in which the firm can...

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Efficiency in Managing the Environment and the Opportunity Cost of Pollution Abatement

Ray, Subhash C.; Mukherjee, Kankana - 2007

Using the directional distance function we study a cross section of 110 countries to examine the efficiency of management of the tradeoffs between pollution and income. The DEA model is reformulated to permit 'reverse disposability' of the bad output. Further, we interpret the optimal solution...

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Optimal Pricing for Integrated-Services Networks with Guaranteed Quality of Service

Wang, Qiong; Peha, Jon M.; Sirbu, Marvin A. - 1997

Integrating multiple services into a single network is becoming increasingly common in today’s telecommunications industry. Driven by the emergence of new applications, many of these services will be offered with guaranteed quality of service. While there are extensive studies of the...

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Childcare constraints on immigrant integration

Guirola Abenza, Luis M.; Sánchez-Domínguez, María

Si bien la maternidad es una de las principales causas de la persistencia de las brechas de género, su impacto en la creciente proporción de madres inmigrantes en Europa es menos conocido. Este artículo se pregunta cómo afecta la carga del cuidado de los hijos a la integración de las...

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Wealth effects on consumer spending in the US economy

Avramenko, Andriy - 2004

This paper investigates the effects of wealth on consumer spending in the United States. A traditional life-cycle model … is estimated first. Although it does find a statistically significant wealth effect, its findings are unusable due to the … offered. First, wealth is divided into stock market and non-stock market components, second into liquid and illiquid …

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Drivers of the Value of the Firm: Profitability, Growth, and Capital Intensity

Miller, Tom W.; Mathisen, Richard E. - 2004

Value-based management systems focus on wealth and the wealth creation process and promote the generation of value for … desired course of action to improve the wealth generating ability of the firm by managing these value drivers more effectively. …

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Financial position of euro area households in 2018

Río Lopezosa, Ana del; Cuenca Morales, José Antonio

households’ income, savings, borrowing and financial wealth evolved in 2018. The improvement in the labour market and the more …

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