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Research and development towards green technologies under technical and policy uncertainty
Valeria Jana Schwanitz - 2010
Green technological progress bears a strong potential to alleviate climate change, but its utilization is contingent on factors which are by nature impossible to anticipate or predict. Developing stochastic optimisation models, we explore how the decision to invest in research and development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009466981
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The Influence of Taxes on Investment and Labor Supply Decisions - Experimental Analyses of Tax Perception
Fochmann, Martin - 2011
Laborexperiment sollten die Teilnehmer eine Entscheidung über die genaue Höhe einer Investition treffen. In verschiedenen Treatments …In this thesis, the effect of tax perception on investment behavior and labor supply decisions is analyzed using … investment behavior which is consistent with theory. However, an income tax with a limited or unlimited loss offset provision …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009478158
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Essays in Telecommunications Economics
Heimeshoff, Gerrit Ulrich - 2008
the determinants of telecommunications investments and presents two possible solutions to the investment problem. The …
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The dynamic relationship between firm capabilities, regulatory policy, and environmental performance: renewable energy policy and investment in the U.S. electric utility sector.
Fremeth, Adam Ryan - 2009
investment of renewable power in the U.S. electric utility sector and the growth of a utility scale renewable energy industry. I …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009462765
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Profit patterns across American agriculture.
Blank, S.C.; Erickson, K.W.; Moss, C.B. - 2005
To remain viable, agriculture in each location must offer returns that are competitive with those from alternative investments and sufficient to cover producers' financial obligations. Economic theory says that rates of return converge over time as resources flow into more-profitable industries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429574
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The Rise and Decline of U.S. Private Sector Investments in Energy R&D since the Arab Oil Embargo of 1973
Dooley, James J. - 2010
This paper presents two distinct datasets that describe investments in energy research and development (R&D) by the US private sector since the mid1970s, which is when the US government began to systematically collect these data. The first dataset is based upon a broad survey of more than 20,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435873
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Oil and gas development in the United States in the early 1990`s: An expanded role for independent producers
2009
Since 1991, the major petroleum companies` foreign exploration and development expenditures have exceeded their US exploration and development expenditures. The increasing dependence of US oil and gas development on the typically much smaller nonmajor companies raises a number of issues. Did...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436064
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Geothermal investment analysis with site-specific applications to Roosevelt Hot Springs and Cove Fort-Sulphurdale, Utah
Cassel, T.A.V.; Edelstein, R.H.; Blair, P.D. - 2007
The analysis and modeling of investment behavior in the development of hydrothermal electric power facilities are … reported. This investment behavior reflects a degree of sensitivity to public policy alternatives concerning taxation and … model was developed which offers an efficient means for site-specific investment analysis of private sector firms and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436469
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Alternative scenarios for Federal transportation policy. Volume I. Summary. First year final report
Friedlaender, A.; Simpson, R. - 2008
, procurement, government ownership and investment, special programs for particular transportation industry problems and impacts of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436526
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How can energy-efficient structures compete in an inefficient energy market
Noll, S. - 2009
The only way resources can be efficiently allocated in our market system is if prices of resources, goods, and services properly reflect their true value to society. However, because of (a) imperfections in the pricing mechanisms that currently influence private-sector decision making; (b) the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436739