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The Clean Development Mechanism and Least Developed Countries: Key Determinants for Enhancing Climate Change Mitigative Capacity with Case Study Analysis of Niger.
Winkelman, Andrew Gene - 2011
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol offers developing countries the opportunity to participate in the effort to reduce global greenhouse gas levels while also benefitting from sustainable development opportunities. To date, the majority of CDM investments have gone to...
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Global economic integration, technology diffusion and climate change
Michael Hübler - 2010
This thesis is a collection of research papers examining global economic integration, technology diffusion and climate change and their interactions and policy implications. Chapter 1 theoretically analyzes the effect of changes in regional production costs on the inter-regional allocation of...
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Analysis of carbon mitigation policies: feed-in tariffs, energy and carbon price interactions and competitive distortions on carbon markets
Johanna Reichenbach - 2011
I study several policy instruments for carbon mitigation with a focus on subsidies for renewable energies, emission taxes and emission allowances. In Chapter 1, I analyze the optimal design and the welfare implications of two policies consisting of an emission tax for conventional fossil-fuel...
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Making WKU a Fair Trade University
Vaughan, Matthew John - 2011
Many products consumed on college campuses such as coffee and chocolate come from developing countries where producers are often paid insufficiently and exploited. Fair Trade certification of products guarantees producers a fair price and other social benefits. The objective of my CE/T project...
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Bank Loans as a Financial Discipline: A Direct Agency Cost of Equity Perspective
Hijazi, Bassem - 2006
section tests whether three proxies of the direct agency costs of equity are equally significant in measuring the direct costs … associated with outside equity agency problems. I find that the asset utilization ratio proxy is the most statistically … significant proxy of the direct agency costs of equity using a Chow F-test statistic. The second main section of my dissertation …
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Credibility of Collective Brand as a Source of Equity: An Empirical Application for Spanish Wine Market
Dopico, Domingo Calvo; Blazquez, F.; Tudoran, A. - 2009
of view, the mostreliable signal is the brand. Due to the territory image was earning more and more equity; an …
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Incentives for Residential Water Conservation: Water Price, Revenue, and Consumer Equity in Florida
Rawls, Colin; Borisova, Tatiana; Berg, Sanford; … - 2010
structure effects revenue variability. And, the third is to analyze the impact of different rate structures on consumer equity … three results suggest that customer equity is not adversely affected by conservation rates. When divided into income groups …
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Investment Styles, Fees, & Returns Among Individually Managed & Team Managed Mutual Funds
Cehanowicz, Kendal - 2011
effect on equity objective mutual funds, while having a positive impact on Debt and Equity combination funds. In addition …
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Decision Analysis Considering Welfare Impacts in Water Resources Using the Benefit Transfer Approach
Shaqadan, Ashraf - 2008
non point source pollution loadings due to unknown hydrologic processes variability, and 3) the equity level in allocating …
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Getting the Sharks to Bite in Your Ocean: A Look at Regional Differences in Funding Components in China and the United States
Schwall, Jennifer Ashley - 2011
This study explores the relationship between a venture capital firm?s geographic region and the investment traits that it values. This study?s results will help determine whether venture capital firms, by geographic region, emphasize certain investment traits over others when funding new...
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