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Designing Contracts for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation
Cordero Salas, Paula - 2010
Reduction of carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) has been identified as a cost effective element of the post-Kyoto strategy to achieve long-term climate objectives. The success of REDD depends primarily on the design and implementation of a financial mechanism that...
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Three essays on adaptive learning, institutions and multiple equilibria
Steiger, Laura Christina - 2009
This dissertation examines the role that institutions play in the existence of multiple equilibria in models of … economic development. In addition, it examines the dynamics of transition between such equilibria. In the first chapter of this … dissertation presents an empirical test for the role that human capital and institutions may play in transitions between equilibria …
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The State and Innovation Policy in Late Development: Evidence from South Africa and Malaysia
Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Banji; Sampath, Padmashree Gehl - 2008
; it is the ability of the state to set up institutions that reflect a harmony between knowledge and physical …Plenary 1: Redefining development goals: Science, Technology and Innovation, sustainable growth, improvement of income …
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The effect of institutions on European housing markets : an economic analysis
Mora-Sanguinetti, Juan S.
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Are credit unions in Ecuador achieving economies of scale?
Marchio, Nick A - 2009
and technological development in addition to their unique structural features. This conclusion has important implications …
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An empirical analysis of variety price premium attributes, spatial andtemporal pricing patterns for cowpeas in Ogun State, Nigeria
African Crop Science Society
The paper examined variety price premium attributes, spatial andtemporal pricing patterns of cowpeas in Ogun State Nigeria. Monthlyretail cowpea prices were collected over the period of January 1989 toDecember 1999, for peu (drum) and sokoto varieties. Four marketslocated in four zones were used...
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Risk management associated with tariff-linked agreements
Mahlatsi, Tsatsi Jonas - 2004
The study focuses on tariff-linked (or commodity-linked) agreements entered into between a power utility and commodity producers. The main purpose of these types of agreements is to link electricity tariff payable by commodity producers to the price of the commodity produced thereby transferring...
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(WP 2011-07) Factoring Emerging Markets into the Relationship Between Global Liquidity and Commodities
Landgraf, Steven; Chowdhury, Abdur - 2011
What caused the mid-2000s world commodity price ?bubble? and the recent commodity price growth during the economic recovery after the 2007-2009 recession? The classical ?supply and demand? interpretation offered by some observers suggests that rapid global industrial growth over the past decade...
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Know How, Know Whom, Know Where: A Global Analysis of Investor Experience and Startup Performance
Álvarez-Garrido, Elisa - 2010
This dissertation analyzes where and when experienced investors add value to startups. Building on the resource-dependence theory and the relational view of the firm, I argue that the positive effect of investor experience on startup performance is stronger when the startup faces a more...
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Wage inequality and productivity growth: motivating carrots and crippling sticks: SKOPE Research Paper No. 40, Spring 2002
Rogers, Mark; Vernon, Guy - 2002
Wage inequality is a particular focus of attention not only in public debates over the need for social regulation to support equity, but those over the implications of social regulation for productive performance. The present paper employs panel techniques to examine the comparative historical...
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