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Eisenkopf, Gerald - 2007

.Chapter four discusses the impact of ability grouping in secondary educationon student incentives. Education provides a signal on … unobservable abilityfor employers and improves productivity after education. Selection setsbetter incentives in primary education … (Gesamtschulen) hat die erworbeneQualifikation aber eine höhere Signalwirkung. Deswegen haben die Schülerauch einen höheren Anreiz …

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Dams

Duflo, Esther; Pande, Rohini - 2005

The construction of large dams is one of the most costly and controversial forms of public infrastructure investment in developing countries, but little is known about their impact. This paper studies the productivity and distributional effects of large dams in India. To account for endogenous...

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Gross National Happiness: Can Environmental Economics Offer a Way Forward?

Sharrock, Guy - 1999

The aim of this article is to suggest that economic planning concepts and tools currently exist which might be of practical interest to those individuals working within the Royal Government of Bhutan (RGOB) who are responsible for interpreting and applying in practice the concept of Gross...

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Nonlinear Pricing of Information Goods

Sundararajan, Arun - 2004

This paper analyzes optimal pricing for information goods underincomplete information, when both unlimited-usage (fixed-fee) pricingand usage-based pricing are feasible and administering usage-basedpricing may involve transaction costs. It is shown that offeringfixed-fee pricing in addition to a...

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HRD Strategies Making a Difference in Regional Australia: Implications for Local Action in a Global Context

Hyland, Paul; Becker, Karen L.; Acutt, Bruce - 2005

Effective Human Resource Development (HRD) has long been recognised as a critical element in overall organisational strategy, and in turn is important to the ongoing sustainability of organisations. In this paper, the importance of effective HRD strategies and interventions are considered,...

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Fostering IPv6 Migration Through Network Quality Differentials

Guérin, Roch A; Hosanagar, Kartik - 2010

Although IPv6 has been the next generation Internet protocol for nearly 15 years, new evidences indicate that transitioning from IPv4 to IPv6 is about to become a more pressing issue. This paper attempts to quantify if and how such a transition may unfold. The focus is on ``connectivity...

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The Virtual Commons: Why Free-Riding Can Be Tolerated in File Sharing Networks

Krishnan, Ramayya; Smith, Michael D.; Tang, Zhulei; … - 2008

value and by providing external incentives to peers to share. With regard to the latter finding, we show that without … external incentives, the level of free-riding in peer-to-peer networks will be higher than the socially optimal level, but that …

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Reliability and Competitive Electricity Markets

Joskow, Paul; Tirole, Jean - 2004

incentives for investments consistent with these reserve requirements. …

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Multilateral Trade Liberalisation and FDI: An Analytical Framework for the Implications for Trading Blocs

Ghazalian, Pascal L.; Cardwell, Ryan T. - 2010

firms’ incentives to undertake FDI activities and can lead to various permutations of trade and investment creation and …

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PRIVATE R&D INVESTMENTS IN AGRICULTURE: THE ROLE OF INCENTIVES AND INSTITUTIONS

Alfranca, Oscar; Huffman, Wallace E. - 1999

This paper presents econometric evidence of the effects of economic incentives and institutions on national aggregate …-1995. We find strong impacts of both incentives and institutions on private agricultural R&D investment, and including …

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