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Fiscal incentives and urban regeneration in Dublin 1986-2005
Williams, Brendan - 2006
Purpose – This paper seeks to examine the critical role fiscal incentives have played in urban regeneration in Ireland since 1986, focusing on the role of such incentives, their impact on development and implications for the market of their termination.Design/methodology/approach – The paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475656
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Urban growth centres on the periphery : Ad hoc policy vision and research neglect
Jain, Ameeta; Courvisanos, Jerry - 2009
The focus of this paper is peripheral urban growth centres on the edges of capital cities in Australia and the challenges they face as dormitory suburbs attempting to establish their own local business development. These challenges create dilemmas as infrastructure and climate change place...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009484588
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Tracking the Sun II: The Installed Cost of Photovoltaics in the U.S. from 1998-2008
Barbose, Galen L; Wiser, Ryan; Peterman, Carla; … - 2010
States was the world's third largest PV market in terms of annual capacity additions in 2008, behind Spain and Germany; 335 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436480
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DOES INTENSITY OF CHANGE MATTER? FACTORS AFFECTING ADOPTION IN TWO AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL SCHEMES
Barreiro-Hurle, Jesus; Espinosa-Goded, Maria; Dupraz, Pierre - 2008
level of requirement of each measure.The model is tested with two different AES in Spain implying a low and a high farm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443247
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Interest Rate Pass-Through in Central and Eastern Europe: Reborn from Ashes Merely to Pass Away?
Égert, Balázs; Crespo-Cuaresma, Jesus; Reininger, Thomas - 2006
than in Spain and is higher than in core euro area countries. Hence, euro adoption by the CEE-5 would not further increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476888
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Excess capacity and expense preference behaviour in National Health Systems: an application to the Spanish public hospitals
Rodríguez-Álvarez, Ana; Lovell, Charles A. K. - 2004
The aim of this paper is to study excess capacity in National Health System (NHS) hospitals, which have the characteristics of a bureaucracy, within a theoretically consistent framework. In this sense, we develop and estimate an empirical model which has not previously been applied to this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448274
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Gran Centre Granollers – “city, culture and commerce”
Coca-Stefaniak, J. Andres; Parker, Cathy; Barbany, Amadeu; … - 2005
Purpose – Town centre management (TCM) schemes in Spain have generally evolved primarily from a retail perspective, led …-address this imbalance by exploring some of the key success factors of Gran Centre Granollers (GCG) – one of Spain's most advanced … retailer-led TCM schemes located in Granollers (near Barcelona).Design/methodology/approach – This paper, adopting a case …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009455028
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Application of the KISA concept to innovation dynamics and its impact on firms' performance
Albors Garrigo?s, Jose?; Hervas, Jose Luis; Marquez, … - Universidad Polite?cnica de Valencia; Universidad …; … - 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the analysis of firms? innovative activities from the knowledge-intensive service activities (KISA) point of view and analyse their relation to the firms? competitive performance in the case of a mature industry, the Spanish ceramic tile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009481989
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Revisiting the demand of agricultural insurance: The case of Spain
Garrido, Alberto; Zilberman, David - 2007
We use the actual insurance records of 52,300 farmers and 11 years to estimate two sets of insurance demands. We define measures of insurance's expected returns, variance and third moment, based on observed insurance data, and infer the expected returns for those farmers that have never had an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483600
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'SINAMI': a tool for the economic evaluation of forest fire management programs in Mediterranean ecosystems.
Rodríguez y Silva, Francisco; González-Cabán, Armando - 2010
Historically, in Spain and most European countries, forest fire budgets have never been subjected to an objective and … budget requests. The fire economics evaluation system described here (SINAMI) is the first attempt by Spain's National Forest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429502