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EX-ANTE EVALUATION OF AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL SCHEMES: COMBINING ELEMENTS OF PRIVATE AND PUBLIC DECISION MAKING
Bartolini, Fabio; Gallerani, Vittorio; Viaggi, Davide - 2008
The objective of this paper is to set a complete ex-ante evaluation to support Decision Makers in designingmore efficient and effective agri-environmental contracts, through an integrated modelling of elements ofprivate and public decision making. Ex-ante comparison of policy design options in...
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Options Under Uncertainty: An Empirical Investigation of Patterns of Commitment in Display Technologies in the Flat Panel TV Set Industry
Lehmberg, Derek - 2010
This dissertation considers fundamental questions about real options reasoning and its application in the face of uncertainty: do firms behave as real options reasoning predicts, and are there performance benefits from its application? The concept of uncertainty is further developed by...
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An empirical analysis of environmental uncertainty, realoptions decision patterns and firm performance
Boccia Jr., Alfred M. - 2009
Real options theory has become an influential explanatory and normative framework for making resource allocation decisions. Despite a growing body of strategy research regarding real options, however, there is as of yet little empirical confirmation (1) that firm resource allocation behavior...
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Water Resources and Technology Investment Under Uncertainty
Rice, John - 2009
Supporting thermoelectric power generation requires a significant quantity of water, primarilyfor cooling operations. Lack of available water due to physical scarcity or thermal permit limitsassociated with the Clean Water Act 316 (a) can result in a forced curtailment of plant operation,known...
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Irreversible investment in oligopoly
Steg, Jan-Henrik - 2009
We offer a new perspective on games of irreversible investment under uncertainty in continuous time. The basis is a particular approach to solve the involved stochastic optimal control problems which allows to establish existence and uniqueness of an oligopolistic open loop equilibrium in a very...
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New Product Launch Decisions under Competition and Uncertainty: A Real Options and Game-Theoretic Approach to New Product Development
Ostler, James O 1978- - 2004
product. First, firms do not exist in a vacuum and any action they take will be countered by their competition. Second, with …
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The Determinants and Effects of Enrollment in the USDA Conservation Reserve Program
Brimlow, Jacob Nathaniel - 2009
This dissertation is a series of three essays exploring the determinants and effects of enrollment in the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). The CRP is the United States' largest federal conservation program, currently enrolling over 34 million...
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11.432J / 15.427J Real Estate Finance & Investments II: Macro-Level Analysis & Advanced Topics, Spring 2003
Geltner, David; Mcgrath, William Tod - 2003
The evolving organization and operation of real estate capital markets. Sources of real estate capital. Primary and secondary mortgage markets. The investment behavior of real estate assets. The development of REITs and securitized debt markets. Advanced pricing techniques for complex real...
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Telecommunications Regulation: An Introduction
Economides, Nicholas - NYU Stern School of Business - 2004
point to the real danger that theintent of Congress in passing the 1996 Act to promote competition intelecommunications will …
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The Effects Of Competition On The Price For Cable Modem Internet Access
Chen, Yongmin; Savage, Scott J. - University of Colorado at Boulder; University of … - 2007
An important issue in economics is how market structure affects prices.While the standard view is that competition … access, with orwithout competition from a DSL provider, and using education dispersionand ethnic diversity as proxies for …, competition reduces prices. As preference becomes morediverse, the negative effect of competition on prices diminishes; andwhen …
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