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Indirect Welfare Effects of Price Changes and Cost-Benefit Analysis
Rouwendal, Jan - 2002
The effects of a policy measure often reach the consumer only after one or more intermediatesteps, for instance because the measure lowers the cost of an input for an industry producinga consumer good. This paper is concerned with the question how to measure such indirect effectscorrectly under...
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Three decades of rural development projects in Asia, Latin America and Africa: Learning from successes and failures
Zoomers, Annelies - 2006
This article aims to contribute to the discussion about how to make development interventions more effective by analyzing the factors contributing to the success or failure of rural development projects. We made an aggregate level analysis of 46 projects in the field of agricultural research...
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Using G/G/m-models for multi-server and mainframe capacity planning
Müller-Clostermann, Bruno - 2007
-term performance goals with respect to service class specific execution velocity, wait time and wait time percentiles. The same …
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CapSys: A tool for macroscopic capacity planning of IBM mainframe systems
Tilev, Milen; Müller-Clostermann, Bruno - 2008
Capacity planning for large-scale systems like mainframe installations is typically based on rather coarse historical workload data. Hence, it is advisable to employ techniques and tools that use the same macroscopic (high-level) view of the overall system. We follow the classic approach known...
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Zeit, Wohlstand und Zufriedenheit - multidimensionale Polarisierung von Zeit und Einkommen: Selbständige und abhängig Beschäftigte
Merz, Joachim; Scherg, Bettina - 2016
In dieser Studie werden Zeit, Wohlstand und Zufriedenheit mit einem interdependenten multidimensionalen (IMD …) Polarisierungsansatz von Zeit und Einkommen und der Entwicklung über 20 Jahre in Deutschland analysiert. Mit dem neuen Ansatz zur … (ZBE/ZVE, GTUS) der Jahre 1991/92, 2001/02 und aktuell 2012/13. Prominentes Ergebnis: Die multidimensionale Zeit und …
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Kann Offenheit geplant werden? Ein Essay über die zeitliche Dimension in der räumlichen Planung
Siegmund, Yvonne - In: Räumliche Transformation: Prozesse, Konzepte, …, (pp. 165-176). 2019
Sinnzusammenhänge sein. Obgleich in der Planungspraxis der Faktor Zeit noch vorwiegend ignoriert wird, experimentieren einige Ausnahmen …, considering processes as a function of time can be a key to understanding these complex contexts. Although in the planning … practice the factor time is still largely ignored, some exceptions such as Rapid Planning or Slow Urbanism experiment with it …
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Intergenerational altruism and transfers of time and money: a life cycle perspective
Bolt, Uta; French, Eric; Hentall-MacCuish, Jamie; … - 2023
mothers and fathers make investments in their children. We find that time investments, educational investments, and … education subsidies can reduce inequality, due to an estimated dynamic complementarity between time investments and education …
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Raumwissen für die große Transformation
Knieling, Jörg; Koch, Florian; Kruse, Sylvia; Seidl, Irmi - In: Nachhaltige Raumentwicklung für die große …, (pp. 190-213). 2021
Die Autorinnen fragen nach den Inhalten und Formen von Wissen über Raum und Raumentwicklung für die große Transformation sowie nach den Bedingungen für dessen Produktion und Verbreitung. Vor dem Hintergrund der frühen Debatten um nachhaltige Raumentwicklung werden die Hemmnisse und...
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Project selection, income smoothing, and Bayesian learning
Gaber, Christian - 2003
Capital rationing is an empirically well-documented phenomenon. This constraint requires managers to make investment decisions between mutually exclusive investment opportunities. In a multiperiod agency setting, this paper analyses accounting rules that provide managerial incentives for...
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Creditor coordination with social learning and endogenous timing of credit decisions
Schüle, Tobias - 2006
In case of multiple source lending even solvent firms may be forced into bankruptcy due to uncoordinated credit withdrawals of their lenders. This paper analyzes whether a debtor firm can thwart such inefficient liquidations by offering creditors the option to delay their foreclosure decision...
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