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Dimensions of service quality and service climate: a study of bank customers and employees in four local Malaysian banks
Ab. Wahab, Norailis - 2009
their employees and customers; using customer-oriented processes and training programs within an increasingly diverse … accomplished research to determine whether Malaysian local bank customers’ perceptions of service quality and its dimensions relate … to employees’ perceptions of service climate and its dimensions; and to ascertain whether various background elements …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009465913
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The Induced Innovation Hypothesis and Energy-Saving Technological Change
Newell, Richard G.; Jaffe, Adam B.; Stavins, Robert N. - 1998
We develop a methodology for testing Hick's induced innovation hypothesis by estimating a product-characteristics model of energy-using consumer durables, augmenting the hypothesis to allow for the influence of government regulations. For the products we explored, the evidence suggests: (i) the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446692
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The management structure for research in the RSA, with a proposed management model for medical faculties
Brink A.J.; Slabbert B.R. - 1985
Government accepts responsibility for stimulating and supporting research and development for the welfare of the entire community. Research is therefore a matter of serious concern which should be approached with the greatest degree of responsibility by those trained and qualified to engage in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009480472
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Demographic and economic trends in medical schemes--a time series analysis [Demografiese en ekonomiese tendense vir mediese skemas--'n tydreeksanalise.]
Hartshorne J.E.; Carstens I.L. - 1991
A time series analysis was performed on medical scheme statistics with the aim of determining current and future demographic and economic trends. This would enable one to reach a better perspective on the current and future financial dilemma presently experienced by medical schemes. Data for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009480497
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Allocation of CO2 Emissions Allowances in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Program
Burtraw, Dallas; Palmer, Karen L.; Kahn, Danny - 2005
Cap-and-trade programs for air emissions have become the widely accepted, preferred approach to cost-effective pollution reduction. One of the important design questions in a trading program is how to initially distribute the emissions allowances. Under the Acid Rain program created by Title IV...
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Climate Change Catastrophes
Pizer, William A. - 2003
Most studies that compare price and quantity controls for greenhouse gas emissions under uncertainty find that price mechanisms perform substantially better. In these studies, the benefits from reducing emissions are proportional to the level of reductions, and such linear benefits strongly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445516
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CO2 Allowance Allocation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and the Effect on Electricity Investors
Burtraw, Dallas; Kahn, Danny; Palmer, Karen L. - 2005
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is an effort by nine Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states to develop a regional, mandatory, market-based cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the electricity sector. The initiative is expected to lead to an increase in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445517
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An EU Sky Trust: Distributional Analysis for Hungary
Ferjentsik, Viola; Ash, Michael - 2007
We analyze the effects of EU adoption of a Sky Trust (Barnes and Breslow 2003) on the income distribution of Hungary, a lower-middle income EU member. We use plausible parameters for an EU carbon charge and revenue recycling system, input-output data to track the effect of a carbon charge on...
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Organizational Adaptation and Resilience to Extreme Weather Events
Martina Linnenluecke - 2010
Impacts from climate change already pose major challenges for organizations and industrial systems, and vulnerabilities … implications in terms of a necessity of a geographical shift of organizational and industrial activities. The thesis highlights …
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Legal issues for implementing the clean development mechanism in China
Jiang, Xiaoyi - University of Western Sydney; College of Business; … - 2010
Today, climate change is among the most hotly-debated topics worldwide. The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), one of the three financial mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol open to developing and developed countries, was devised to assist in mitigation of global warming. Since it was initiated,...
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