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The design of both tuition fees and their accompanying loan systems determines their effect on the goals of investment in higher education, equal access to higher education, free choice between universities as well as cost-effective provision of the loans. Under a law-and-economics approach,...
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Staatliche Innovationsförderung erklärt Firmen, besonders kleinere Unternehmen, die Hindernissen zur Innovationstätigkeitgegenüberstehen, zu unterstützen. Frühere Studien haben gezeigt, dass staatliche Programme diese Ziele nicht erreichen. Aber in der Vergangenheit wurde hierbei selten...
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Regulation of mobile source emissions in the US has evolved as a complex combination of central government and decentralized authority. The central government required uniform new car emissions standards in the 1970 Clean Air Act, but gave states the power to meet ambient air quality standards...
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Andy Rose (2000), followed by many others, has used the gravity model of bilateral trade on a large data set to estimate the trade effects of monetary unions among small countries. The finding has been large estimates: Trade among members seems to double or triple, that is, to increase by...
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federalism among all of the sects battling for oil wealth in Iraq. This paper focuses primarily on the issue between Kurds and …
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complaining behaviour for both complainers and non-complainers.The high number of retaliation through 'exit' is a concern for …
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entry and exit behavior. We develop theoretical predictions based on the model of Lakdawalla and Philipson, in which for … be quicker to enter and exit than not-for-profits in response to changing market conditions. We test this hypothesis … using data for all U.S. hospitals from 1984 through 2000. Examining annual and regional entry and exit rates, for …
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entry and exit behavior. We develop theoretical predictions based on the model of Lakdawalla and Philipson, in which for … be quicker to enter and exit than not-for-profits in response to changing market conditions. We test this hypothesis … using data for all U.S. hospitals from 1984 through 2000. Examining annual and regional entry and exit rates, for …
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This study uses a unique firm-level dataset to examine how falling trade costs from 1993-2001 affected entry, exit … probability of exit, and reduced the market share of surviving firms. We also find that small firms had a particularly high level … of dynamism over the sample period. Small firms were more likely to enter and exit, and marginally more likely to gain …
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This study estimates the determinants of the exit behavior in a concentrating industry that encounters industrial … exit behaviors. This study uses U.S. swine industry data to explore the factors that affect small producers' quitting …: exit rates, we can evaluate how exogenous shocks, macroeconomic conditions, technological improvement and scale of …
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