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Economic ideas for a complex climate policy regime

Burtraw, Dallas; Woerman, Matt - In: Energy Economics 40 (2013) S1, pp. 24-24

economic approach is built on the premise that incentives affect behavior. We suggest that an important pathway of influence … regime, incentives can be shaped by shadow prices as well as market prices. …

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Chinese Graduate Students and U.S. Scientific Productivity

Gaulé, Patrick; Piacentini, Mario - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 95 (2013) 2, pp. 698-701

The migration of young Chinese scientists to undertake graduate studies in U.S. universities is arguably one of the most important recent episodes of skilled migration. Using a new data set covering around 16,000 Ph.D. graduates in 161 U.S. chemistry departments, we show that Chinese students...

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What is the Place of Christian Wolff in the History of the Social Sciences?

SENN, PETER - In: European Journal of Law and Economics 4 (1997) 2, pp. 147-232

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Optimal expansion of the power transmission grid: why not?

Léautier, Thomas-Olivier; Thelen, Véronique - In: Journal of Regulatory Economics 36 (2009) 2, pp. 127-153

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An Agency Perspective on the Costs and Benefits of Privatization

Martimort, David - In: Journal of Regulatory Economics 30 (2006) 1, pp. 5-44

This paper proposes a unified theoretical framework to discuss the costs and benefits of privatization using the recent advances of Incentive Theory. I begin by presenting a simple model in which the State (the principal) delegates a task (e.g., the production of a public good) to the private...

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How incentives affect web-based survey response rates of athletic program donors

Alvarado, Glenda; Callison, Coy - In: International Journal of Revenue Management 7 (2013) 2, pp. 155-170

survey response rates. Results indicated that the inclusion of incentives did not increase survey response rate nor did value … of incentive or incentive saliency. Respondents who were offered incentives, however, were quicker in providing the … requested information than those respondents not offered incentives for their participation. Discussion details how audiences …

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Price cap regulation and the ratchet effect: a generalized index approach

Bottasso, Anna; Conti, Maurizio - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 32 (2009) 3, pp. 191-201

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