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managementprograms on investment, production, and contract design are investigated.The dissertation is comprised of three essays. The … nitrogen use, these risk management programscounteract federal environmental programs.The third essay uses a principal-agent …
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One of the reasons for the success of Fiji Nursing and Associates Credit Union (FNACU) was through innovation in governance by making amendments to the Credit Union Act to allow for expansion of their membership to paramedics and minors. Cooperatives including credit unions have played a...
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In the first chapter, I develop and estimate a dynamic general equilibrium model with imperfectly informed firms in the sense of Woodford (2002). The model has two aggregate shocks: a monetary policy shock and a technology shock. Firms observe idiosyncratic noisy signals about these shocks and...
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My dissertation consists of two independent essays on macroeconomic volatility and monetary economics respectively. The first essay explores the implications of imperfect information on macroeconomic volatility. It offers a micro-founded theory of time variation in the volatility of aggregate...
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Este documento propone un modelo estadístico y un marco conceptual para estimar la volatilidad de la inflación suponiendo rational inattention, donde la caída del nivel de atención responde a la llegada de noticias al mercado. Estimamos la tendencia y la volatilidad condicional de la...
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El presente trabajo resume la literatura existente relativa a los modelos de ajuste de los precios nominales, centrándose en los modelos de comportamiento óptimo o casi óptimo. El documento abarca tres clases principales de mecanismos: 1) modelos que suponen un coste fijo (menu cost) al...
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or the role of penalty mechanism in the RPS design on meeting its goal. In my Master Thesis I estimate which states are … focus on the role of penalty size, and controlling for complimentary policies promoting renewable energy production. I use a … fixed effects linear probability model and state level data. Results indicate that including a penalty in the RPS design …
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Australia is an express factor in determining unconscionability in contract formation and performance. Certainty is essential to … business confidence that underpins planning and investment. Certainty is also a factor in evaluating what parties have agreed … to in making the contract. Discretion, if it is too wide, may no longer represent the true intentions of the parties, but …
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deliberations and investment in the transaction, as well as her willingness to seek agreement with the promisee on how to fill …
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Kingdom, Germany and USA, are compared. A contract signed by municipality and a private sector company concerning the delivery …
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