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Incentives for the Quality and Safety Traceability System of Agricultural Products
Bai, Shizhen; Li, Meng - In: Asian Agricultural Research 06 (2014) 02
The quality and safety traceability system of agricultural products is an important measure to protect the quality and safety of agricultural products. Farmers and food enterprises are main operators of the traceability system. If they are effectively encouraged to practice traceability system,...
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A system dynamics approach for investigating impacts of incentive mechanisms on wind power investment
Alishahi, E.; Moghaddam, M. Parsa; Sheikh-El-Eslami, M.K. - In: Renewable Energy 37 (2012) 1, pp. 310-317
Large integration of intermittent wind generation in power system has necessitated the inclusion of more innovative and sophisticated approaches in power system investment planning. The intermittent nature and uncertainties of wind power generation will cause the investors encounter risk in...
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Optimal Water Metering and Pricing
Chambouleyron, Andrés - In: Water Resources Management 18 (2004) 4, pp. 305-319
Marginal cost pricing of running water and sewerage services haslong been the default recommendation of economists and natural resource specialists to firms and local governments. However, optimal water rate calculation considering the optimal number ofmeters has not been thoroughly treated in...
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: Performance, pay and promotion: implementing a Weberian bureaucracy in nineteenth century Baden
Selgert, Felix - In: Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and … 8 (2014) 1, pp. 79-113
This paper is based on the difference between the formal introduction of a Weberian bureaucracy and its actual implementation through state officials. This difference between the formal institutional framework and its actual implementation could lead to failed reforms. On the other side, there...
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Patent Systems for Encouraging Innovation: Lessons from Economic Analysis
Encaoua, David; Guellec, Dominique; Martínez, Catalina - HAL - 2006
Economic theory views patents as policy instruments aimed at fostering innovation and diffusion. Three major …. Beyond these three implications, economic theory also pleads for a mechanism design approach: an optimal patent system could …
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An Incentive Mechanism for Decentralized Water Metering Decisions
Chambouleyron, Andrés - In: Water Resources Management 17 (2003) 2, pp. 89-111
concessions in Argentina are studied: Buenos Aires and Córdoba. Conclusions and policy recommendations are drawn from the theory …
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Signaling Rather than Incentive Mechanism for Entry Regulation
Kim, Jaehong - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2001
The lack of complete information has been considered as a barrier to the optimal regulation. This paper shows that this is true for price regulation, but not for entry regulation. The performance of an entry regulation under asymmetric information can be better than that under complete...
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On coalitional stability of anonymous interim mechanisms
Demange, Gabrielle; Guesnerie, Roger - In: Economic Theory 18 (2001) 2, pp. 367-389
In a situation where agents have private information, we investigate the stability of mechanisms with respect to coalitional deviations. In the cooperative tradition, we first extend the notion of Core, taking into account the information a coalition may have when it forms and the conjectures of...
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Managerial Incentive Mechanisms and Turnover of Company Presidents and Directors in Japan
Abe, Naohito - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2004
The role of directors in Japanese companies is unique in a number of ways. One such characteristic is the dual nature of their role, which encompasses both monitoring and managing responsibilities. This paper considers their role in management. Empirical analysis with detailed data for each...
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The Incentive Role of Creating "Cities" in China
Li, Lixing - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
"cities". In China, awarding city status to existing counties is the dominant way of creating new urban administrative units …, during which the local government gets many benefits. Using a large panel data set covering all counties in China during 1993 … about China’s politics of governance: where does power lie in China? …
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