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Perspectives on Firm Decision Making During Risky Technology Acquisitions
Powell, Adam C. - 2011
A novel survey dataset on computed tomography (CT) machine acquisition is used to explore which theories best answer two questions from the decision making literature. First, what determines how much uncertainty a firm has when investing in updated technology? Second, what determines the value...
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Understanding the Accrual Anomaly
Zhang, Lu - 2007
Interpreting accruals as working capital investment, we hypothesize that firms optimally adjusttheir capital investment in response to discount rate changes. Consistent with the discount-ratehypothesis, we document that (i) the predictive power of accruals for future returns increaseswith the...
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A DYNAMIC PARTICIPATION DECISION MODEL APPLIED TO THE CONSERVATION SECURITY PROGRAM FOR NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES DAIRY FARMS
Shultz, Joseph - 2006
The Conservation Security Program was authorized in the 2002 Farm Bill and is hailed by many observers as the first … conservation programs show that premature termination of contracts is a persistent issue. This type of producer behavior is not … impact of alternative behavioral assumptions and dynamic biophysical effects of conservation practices on the participation …
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Federal Commodity Programs and Returns to Irrigation in the West
Aillery, Marcel P. - Economic Research Service, Natural Resources and … - 1995
conservation in western irrigated agriculture. …
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Theoretical mathematical model of fishery economics
Garron, Andre - 2004
: Demand Management and Fishery Conservation", by J. Samuel Barkin and Kashif Mansori, who argue that the supply curve for a …
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Incentives for Residential Water Conservation: Water Price, Revenue, and Consumer Equity in Florida
Rawls, Colin; Borisova, Tatiana; Berg, Sanford; … - 2010
Economic theory suggests that price incentives can be used to encourage water conservation in residential consumers …. Conservation water rates are designed to send price signals that encourage households to reduce discretionary water use in the long … term.However, it is not always clear that conservation rates effectively provide meaningful incentives. Utilities …
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"Blue Mountains constantly walking': the re-signification of nature and the reconfiguration of the commons in rural Papua New Guinea.
Wagner, John - 1999
Conclusion: In conclusion it should be noted that the land and marine areas comprising Lababia’s Wildlife Management Area are a rich, largely undisturbed ecosystem. Despite the fact that commercial fishing has reached a point of unsustainability, the marine environment as a whole still...
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Predicting the performance of conservation tenders when information on bidders's costs is limited
Schilizzi, Steven; Latacz-Lohmann, Uwe - 2009
available to a conservation agency. We conclude there exists anoptimal level of information on bidders’ costs, neither too large …
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