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Financial Analysis of Incentive Mechanisms to Promote Energy Efficiency: Case Study of a Prototypical Southwest Utility
Cappers, Peter; Goldman, Charles; Chait, Michele; … - 2009
, including the corresponding utility financial budgets required in each case. If a decoupling and/or a shareholder incentive … resources, decoupling and/or a shareholder incentive mechanism impacts utility shareholders (e.g. overall earnings, return on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436718
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Evaluating the Effects of Decoupled Payments under Output and Price Uncertainty
Kotakou, Christina A.; Katranidis, Stelios D. - 2010
This paper examines the effects of decoupling policies on Greek cotton production under the hypothesis that producers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442677
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Investment rigidity and policy measures
Serra, Teresa; Stefanou, Spiro; Gil, Jose Maria; … - 2008
This paper assesses the impacts of decoupled government transfers on production decisions of a sample of Kansas farms observed from 1996 to 2001. Our model allows for risk, risk attitudes and the intertemporal investment decisions. We also allow for different adjustments of the decision...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443234
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The Market for Payment Entitlements in Germany
Roeder, Norbert; Kilian, Stefan - 2008
In 2005, Germany implemented CAP decoupled payments. Direct payments were convertedinto tradable, production decoupled, single farm payments (SFP) by a hybrid model. From2010 - 2013, there will be a gradual transition to a regional model. The following papershows the results of an analysis of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443318
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The Impact of Demographic and Structural Change on Transport Use
Ballingall, John; Steel, Doug - 2004
not be directly related. This implies that a degree of „decoupling‟ is required – that economic development needs to occur … decoupling, it is vital to consider what might happen to the relationship between economic development and transport over the … and structural change. This paper suggests that in the absence of any policy change, some decoupling of economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443699
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EFFECTS OF POLICY INSTRUMENTS ON FARM INVESTMENTS AND PRODUCTION DECISIONS IN THE SPANISH COP SECTOR
Kallas, Zein; Serra, Teresa; Gil, Jose Maria - 2009
Our paper assesses the impacts of the partially decoupled (PD) scheme, implemented during the 1990s and first half of the 2000s in the framework of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), on on-farm investment as well as on other production decisions. The Spanish COP sector was taken as a case...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444759
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Do decoupled payments really encourage farmers to work more off farm? A micro-level analysis of incentives and preferences
Douarin, Elodie - 2008
decoupling have shown so far onlylimited impact from decoupling and sometimescontradictory findings. In this paper … analysis based on the intentionsto adjust to decoupling of a sample of French farmersconfirms a limited impact of the change in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445700
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MODELLING THE EFFECT OF EU POLICY REFORMS ON FARM INVESTMENT BEHAVIOUR
Gallerani, Vittorio; Gomez y Paloma, Sergio; Raggi, Meri; … - 2008
investment, though the latter seems more relevant than the former. However,decoupling itself shows minor effects in the majority …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446278
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The CEO Effect: A Longitudinal, Multi-Level Analysis of the Relationship Between Executive Orientation and Corporate Social Strategy
Mazutis, Daina D - 2011
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a strategic issue. Yet, research in this area has primarily focused on establishing a link between CSR and financial performance, with significantly less attention given to the antecedents of CSR at the individual, firm or industry levels. Notably,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447216
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Information and the Experience of Wonder: A Rhetorical Study of Information Design
Jun, Soojin - 2011
In the last two decades, emotion has emerged as an important theme in discussions of design. However, there is no framework to date that encompasses both emotion and information design in a single theory. This dissertation was motivated by a lack of substantive theory that would allow design...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441167