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, not only because more and higher-quality schools are being built, but also because construction costs have increased by an … literature studying the determinants of school construction costs focuses on the impact of prevailing wage laws; however, there … this article, we measure the impacts of three regulations on the costs of construction in a model that incorporates a more …
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Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence recognises organisations in the USA, Mexico and Canada …
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effect). This study has practical implications for regulators, corporations and investors, both in the USA and abroad. …
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Offshore outsourcing continues to gain prominence as the printing industrystrides into the future. With different segments of the industry looking at reducingcosts and, in exchange providing value-added services, more companies turntowards outsourcing services offshore as a solution. Although it...
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Traditional economic theory regards the social costs of monopoly as the reduction in both consumer and producer surplus … the social costs of monopoly must include the costs of obtaining and maintaining monopoly positions. Anne 0. Krueger used … costs of monopoly. In a developing country such as Cameroon, where government activity in the economy has been quite …
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-cally disadvantageous. This study gives a comparison of the estimated external costs (environmental aspects) and internal costs (economic … database is used for the estimation of external costs which is based on updated factors of damage and avoidance costs for …. Global warming and discounting are considered to be the hot spots in the external costs discussion. An avoidance costs …
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Die Arbeit untersucht das Auftreten von Externen Kosten im Rahmen der Verbraucherverschuldung, sowie die Wirkungen … auf drei „Arten“ von externen Kosten:1. externe Kosten über das Sozialsystem,2. externe Kosten über das Rechtssystem,3 …. externe Kosten für frühere Kreditgeber.Es wird untersucht, unter welchen Bedingungen solche externen Kosten sowie eine …
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The theoretical debate over whether countries can and should set tariffs in response to the foreign export elasticities they face goes back to Edgeworth (1894). Despite the centrality of the optimal tariff argument in trade policy, there exists no evidence about whether countries actually...
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Traditional economic wisdom claims that - while global economic integration is beneficial for economic performance - a country's trade specialization pattern has no impact on its economic performance. In this paper, we seek to cast doubt on this aspect of mainstream economics using a very...
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