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Since firms in an emissions trading program are linked together through a permit market, so too are their compliance choices. Thus, enforcement strategies for trading programs must account for not only the direct effects of enforcement on compliance and emissions decisions, but also the indirect...
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Experimental economics is the newest tool available to improve the research of economists. The first chapter reviews the methods that experimentation employs. The review is important for understanding the construction and running of experiments as well as the criticisms. The second chapter...
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study elaborates and analyzes a methodology to capture the evolution of a particular division of financial assets related … instruments. Based upon the price index methodology, a selected sample of ten agribusiness stocks chosen by decreasing liquidity …
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those phases are also problematic.The aim of this research was to develop a business analysis methodology for business …, techniques and tools to address the objectivesof each phase of a methodology.This was done by presenting a literature review of … independently.The phases of a business analysis methodology identified by the research are the:• feasibility phase;• business case …
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The present work was intended originally as a chapter for my January 2006 Ph.D dissertation, but now is essentially a 'working paper.' As is well known, economists make a number of abstract and unrealistic assumptions, such as for example characterising the economic agent as a rational...
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There are many methodological approaches within ecological economics. Modifications to the neoclassical paradigm represents one of the principal modes of analysis. This paper examines the parallels between the ideas of some ecological economists concerning production and consumption, when viewed...
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methodology for estimating these populations, and benchmarks these against demographic information available from a range of … administrative data. Potential deficiencies in ABS methodology are highlighted and a case is made for the use of administrative data …
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selection processes contribute to this failure rate.  However, the literature is devoid of a systematic methodology for the … for a small or medium-sized enterprise. The study employs Thomann’s meta-methodology for methodology development; a survey … of SME’s is conducted to inform the development of the methodology, and a case study is employed to test, and revise the …
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The applicability of learning and experience curves for predicting future costs of solar technologies is assessed, and … systems manufacture are discussed, and procedures for using learning and experience curves to predict costs are outlined … learning and aggregated cost curves for these surrogates estimated. If the surrogate learning curves apply, they can be used to …
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hope that this analysis will facilitate learning across states and help state fund managers develop more effective and more …
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