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Mangondo, Kismore - 2006

Currently the gold mining industry is taxed differently to other industries. It is taxed on a two-tier system. The nature of the gold mining tax formula encourages the mining of marginal gold ores. Firms that are involved in the mining of gold are subjected to a "tax tunnel", which is a tax free...

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Climate Policy and the Optimal Extraction of High- and Low-Carbon Fossil Fuels

van der Werf, Edwin; Smulders, Sjak - 2007

We study how restricting CO2 emissions affects resource prices and depletion over time. We use a Hotelling-style model with two non-renewable fossil fuels that differ in their carbon content (e.g. coal and natural gas) and in addition are imperfect substitutes in final good production. We show...

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Value creation in the resource business

Garcia, J. M.; Camus, J. P. - 2011

This paper highlights several management practices from the oil and gas industry to support the proposition that financial performance in the finite, non-renewable resource business relates more to upstream rather than downstream activities. Based on the analysis of nine oil and gas companies,...

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Exact Measures of Income in Two Capital-Resource-Time Economies

Pezzey, John C.V - 2001

Exact optimal paths are calculated for two closed, continuous-time economies with explicit functional forms for utility from consumption, and for production from human-made capital and a non-renewable resource. Features of the first economy are non-linear utility, hyperbolic utility discounting...

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The direction of technical change in capital-resource economies

Di Maria, Corrado; Valente, Simone - 2006

We analyze a multi-sector growth model with directed technical change where man-made capital and exhaustible resources are essential for production. The relative profitability of factor-specific innovations endogenously determines whether technical progress will be capital- or...

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Two economic perspectives on the IPv6 transition

School of Information Systems

Purpose – IPv6 is the replacement for the Internet’s incumbent protocol, IPv4. IPv6 adoption is required to allow the Internet to continue to grow; however, there has been almost no uptake since its standardisation in the late 1990s. This paper seeks to explain how this non-adoption may be a...

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Savings and investment decisions in a poor oil economy: beyond the textbook case

Collier, Paul; Gunning, Jan Willem - 2007

The current commodity boom is a major opportunity for poor countries exportingexhaustible resources such as oil. In the past oil booms were often mismanaged leaving the country with lower long run income. Many countries are now well aware that booms require intricate savings and investment...

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Cost Estimating Certifications Offered by Professional Societies in the United States and Abroad

Remer, Donald S.; Ahle, Karen; Alley, Kevin; Silny, John; … - 2007

Many projects in industry and government go over budget and schedule. In most engineering economics courses, the emphasis is on how to compare alternatives and learn about time value of money and interest and inflation rates. The students are usually given the costs and asked to compare the...

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The Effect of Cross-Training and Scheduling in an Inbound Call Center Using Simulation

Racz, Melanie Beth - 2004

highest average speed of answer. This result is an indication that carefully planned scheduling, along with strong schedule …

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Filter Scheduling Function Model In Internet Server: Resource Configuration, Performance Evaluation And Optimal Scheduling

Xu, Minghua - 2010

ABSTRACTFILTER SCHEDULING FUNCTION MODEL IN INTERNET SERVER:RESOURCE CONFIGURATION, PERFORMANCE EVALUATION ANDOPTIMAL …, searching, publishing and media streaming,being timing sensitive and/or financially critical. The scheduling policy in Internet … arrival processand scheduling function. For the second factor, it is known from this thesis that convexscheduling function …

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