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Imbedding dynamic responses with imperfect information into static portraits of the regional impact of climate change

Yohe, G.W. - 2008

It is becoming increasingly clear, at least on a theoretical level, that modelers of the potential impacts of climate change must impose that change upon the world as it will be configured sometime in the future rather than confine their attention to considerations of what would happen to the...

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1991 Pacific Northwest Loads and Resources Study, Technical Appendix: Volume 1.

United States. Bonneville Power Administration. - 2008

This publication provides detailed documentation of the load forecast scenarios and assumptions used in preparing BPA's 1991 Pacific Northwest Loads and Resources Study (the Study). This is one of two technical appendices to the Study; the other appendix details the utility-specific loads and...

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Index of harm: a measure for comparing occupational risk across industries

Solomon, K.A.; Abraham, S.C. - 2008

Protection (ICRP) by considering American rather than European and Japanese industry groups, by treating the relative importance … fatality rates by showing the riskiest industries to be mining; agriculture, forestry, and fisheries; construction …. However, the rankings re altered considerably at the regulatory dose level of 5.0 Rem/yr. At that level, the nuclear industry …

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Evaluating Tradable Property Rights for Natural Resources: The Role of Strategic Entry and Exit

Brandt, Sylvia - 2003

rights. Existing empirical research on this issue, which compares overall industry efficiency before and after the … industry at different rates, the true efficiency and equity effects of tradable property rights cannot be assessed without … clam fishery, using an econometric model that separates its effects on industry structure and vessel efficiency. The …

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Enterprise Investment During the Transition: Evidence from Czech Panel Data

Lizal, Lubomir; Svejnar, Jan - 1997

We analyze investment behavior of the population of medium and large industrial firms located in the Czech Republic in 1992-95. We examine the relevance of alternative models of investment and test if investment behavior varies across ownership-legal form categories of firms. By using a large...

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The Political Economy of Property Rights Discrimination.

Flores, Thomas Edward - 2008

A seemingly unassailable consensus in political economy states that secure and private property rights are the institutional guarantor of economic growth. In this dissertation, I dispute this conventional account and propose a new understanding of property rights institutions, their effect on...

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Direct Foreign Investments And Productivity Growth In Hungarian Firms, 1992-1999

Sgard, Jérôme - 2001

The impact of FDI on total factor productivity in Hungary during the 1990s' is assessed with a large enterprise panel. Foreign equity is associated with higher productivity levels and has a substantial, positive spillover effect on aggregate TFP growth. However, this benefit is significant only...

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Privatization and State Capacity in Postcommunist Society

King, Lawrence Peter; Hamm, Patrick - 2005

Economists have used cross-national regression analysis to argue that postcommunist economic failure is the result of inadequate adherence liberal economic policies. Sociologists have relied on case study data to show that postcommunist economic failure is the outcome of too close adherence to...

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Institutions matter: the case of Vietnam

Tran, Bich Thi; Grafton, R. Quentin; Kompas, Tom - 2008

The paper investigates institutional reforms in Vietnam and their impact on the economic performance of firms. Using the provincial competitiveness index 2006 (PCI06) and firm-level data in Vietnam in 2005, the results show that provincial competitiveness is economically and statistically...

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Chinese agricultural water resource utilisation in the 21st century

Han, Hongyun; Bennett, Jeff - 2002

irrigated agriculture. Owing to failures in both markets and governments, it is argued that water resources should be allocated …

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