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Essays on Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard in Insurance Market
Wen, Jian - 2010
using data from the Florida Citizens Insurance Corporation, the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund, the Flood Insurance and … national flood insurance and the catastrophe fund complement the development of the private insurance sector, while the …
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Economic benefits of dolphins in the United States eastern tropical Pacific purse-seine tuna industry
Haraden, John; Herrick, Samuel F.; Squires, Dale; … - 2004
This paper provides a profit-maximizing model with vessel-level dolphin mortality limits for purse seiners harvesting tunas in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. The model analytically derives the shadow price (estimated economic value) for dolphin mortality, the fishing-fleet size, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447923
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Transition to a low carbon footprint : a conceptual model of impacts and management for Australian businesses
Thyil, Vijaya; Wise, Victoria - 2010
Australian businesses will face profound and wide-ranging structural impacts during their transition to a low carbon … footprint economy. This paper synthesizes the impacts for the firm during the transition and identifies the crucial impact … evaluates the challenges in managing the multiple impacts. The paper provides a conceptual model that will assist decision …
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Control of the effetiveness of applied measures by means of monitoring system
Hrabánková, Magdalena - 2012
orientation of prepared projects as well as proper indicators for the evaluation of outputs, results and impacts of the projects …
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The mobility of inhabitants and ways of transportation to the occupation
Alina, Jiří - 2012
The mobility of inhabitants in sense of persons relocation in order to reach work, entertainment etc. is very closely connected with unemployment rate in region, traffic infrastructure quality, region development and growth and so on. Partial project has been inhabitant mobility analysis in...
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The individual car transportation and its aspects
Alina, Jiří - 2012
Automobile transport is integral part of everyday modern live. On the other hand all the time bigger quantity of cars on roads and motorways slows down the transport speed, road are overloaded, congested, thereby human mobility holds down. Last but not least heavy traffic bears much bad...
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Modeling Non-Linear Spatial Dynamics: A Family of Spatial STAR Models and an Application to U.S. Economic Growth
Pede, Valerien O.; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Holt, Matthew T. - 2008
This paper investigates non-linearity in spatial processes models and allows for a gradual regime-switching structure in the form of a smooth transition autoregressive process. Until now, applications of the smooth transition autoregressive (STAR) model have been largely confined to the time...
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Production Outsourcing, Organizational Governance and Firm's Technological Performance: Evidence from Italy
Antonietti, Roberto; Cainelli, Giulio - 2007
Aim of this paper is to study whether and how the firm’s decision to outsource production activities affects its technological performance. In particular, we look at how the alignment between the firm’s governance strategy and the underlying attributes of the transactions affects the capacity...
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A Note on Business Cycle Non-Linearity in U. S. Consumption
Cook, Steven - 2003
The recently examined durability-asymmetry hypothesis of Cook (1999) is re-evaluated using the diagnostic tests of time deformation proposed by Stock (1987, 1988). An application of these tests to disaggregated data on U.S. consumers’ expenditure provides further support for this hypothesis,...
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Market efficiency and the Euro: the case of the Athens Stock Exchange
Panagiotidis, T - 2003
The efficient market hypothesis (EMH) is tested in the case of the AthensStock Exchange (ASE) after the introduction of the euro. The underlyingassumption is that stock prices would be more transparent; their performanceeasier to compare; the exchange rate risk eliminated and as a result we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009465449