Es gibt verschiedene Antworten auf die Frage nach dem Nutzen der Transformation des Energiesystems. Die klassische Antwort besteht in Argumenten für die Klimafreundlichkeit der erneuerbaren Energien und die Chance, durch ihre Skalierung die fossilen Energien aus dem Markt zu drängen, die...

Access to accurate and reliable information on the cost of COVID-19 is essential for informed socio-economic policy decisions. This paper analyses the economic costs associated with the COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, with a particular focus on Australia. This study examined both the macroeconomic...

Background Mongolia introduced liver transplantation 10 years ago, becoming the 46th country globally to successfully perform this procedure. However, the cost of liver transplantation treatment remains expensive in Mongolia, a lower-middle-income country. Thus, the need to calculate the cost of...

Determining which ports to call at in a maritime loop is considered as an important determinant factor for shipping companies which impacts not only on efficiency, and productivity but also on transportation costs. The port selection process becomes more challenging and sensitive if the market...

Background: This study investigates the vital significance of logistical cost optimization within the residual woody biomass supply chain, aiming to boost both sustainability and the efficient uti-lization of this resource. There is an emphasis on how adept cost management can determine the...

CO 2 emission reduction has become the consensus of various industries in China. CO 2 capture, utilization and storage, as an important means for CO 2 emission reduction, is one of the necessary paths to achieve carbon neutrality. Combined with the CO 2 emission of a chemical industry company in...

Operative und strategische Ansatzpunkte für die unternehmenswertorientierte Steuerung eines Unternehmens. Unternehmenswerte stehen im Zentrum vielfältigster Entscheidungen und Transaktionen. Ihre Höhe wird dabei vor allem durch die zukünftig erwarteten Erfolge und die damit verbundenen...

Objectives: The aim was to determine the direct impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Spain's health budget. Methods: Budget impact analyses based on retrospective data from patients with suspected severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) admitted to a Spanish hospital between...

Klaus Deininger and Lyn Squire have recently produced an inequality data base for a panel of countries from the 1960s to the 1990s. We use these data to decompose the sources of inequality into three central parts: the demographic or cohort size effect; the so-called Kuznets Curve or demand...

Olive which has attracted people throughout its history has made great contributions to the economic development of countries in Mediterranean basin because of its multi-purpose usage possibilities in daily life and its economic value. Turkey, supplying the 8% of world olive production and 5% of...

Earned value management is the utmost common method used in study of performance of the project. EVM incorporates the project possibility, budget and agenda processes to promote the project management crew to measure project performance from beginning to the end of the project. It is capable of...

This study provides cost data for different heating appliances, covering: gas boilers, oil boilers, biomass boilers (pellet), air source heat pumps, ground source heat pumps, air-air heat pumps (air conditioners), direct acting electric heaters (panel heaters), storage heaters (high heat...

Background: There is growing evidence that the cost for dementia care will increase rapidly in the coming years. Therefore, the objective of this paper was to determine the economic impact of treating clients with dementia in outpatient Dementia Service Centres (DSCs) and simulate the cost...

Identifying the causal effects of turnover on organizational productivity is challenging, due to data constraints and endogeneity issues. We address these challenges by using day-to-day variation in the composition and performance of small retail sales teams, and by exploiting an advance notice...

We estimate turnover costs in small retail sales teams using daily sales data and an advance notice requirement to address endogeneity concerns. In addition to short-staffing and onboarding costs, we identify two less familiar sources of turnover costs: incumbent workers' recruitment activities,...

Green and energy efficient buildings in accordance with international standards has now become a forefront of sustainable development in this century that takes the responsibility for balancing long-term economic, environmental and social health. Energy Retrofitting of existing building is more...

In the green building industry there is an implicit understanding that the use of a green building rating tool will attract additional capital cost. This phenomenon has been well studied in commercial buildings, with mixed results, but has received little focus in the residential, single family...

"This textbook covers how to apply managerial accounting techniques to problems in areas such as cost estimation, cost control, product pricing, and business segment discontinuation. It also discusses how to assess and evaluate cost and profitability analysis of financial projects. Cost Analysis...

The beginnings of Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) in Macedonia date back to 2008, first as a pilot project, then becoming mandatory for all legal proposals since 2009 as part of regulatory reforms with a declarative goal - improving the entrepreneurial environment. In 2011, the Ministry of...

The primary goal of this study was to estimate the economic costs associated with aggravated murder cases that result in death sentences and compare those costs to other aggravated murder cases, the majority of which resulted in some form of a life sentence, in the state of Oregon. Importantly,...

Der deutsche Klimaschutzplan sieht vor, die Treibhausgasemissionen in Deutschland bis 2050 um 80 bis 95% gegenüber 1990 zu reduzieren. Auch wenn im Detail noch große Unsicherheit darüber besteht, wie dieses Ziel konkret erreicht werden soll, ist in jedem Fall davon auszugehen, dass die...