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Although IPv6 has been the next generation Internet protocol for nearly 15 years, new evidences indicate that transitioning from IPv4 to IPv6 is about to become a more pressing issue. This paper attempts to quantify if and how such a transition may unfold. The focus is on ``connectivity...
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value and by providing external incentives to peers to share. With regard to the latter finding, we show that without … external incentives, the level of free-riding in peer-to-peer networks will be higher than the socially optimal level, but that …
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incentives for investments consistent with these reserve requirements. …
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/non-market (i.e. government regulation, judiciary/legal system) incentives for a firm to act voluntarily on environmental quality is … legal system than the private incentives and the firm size has a substantial impact on its response to the environment. The …
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This research aims at identifying the incentives associated to collaterals in an asymmetric information context and … relationship or not. Our results confirm that collaterals’ incentives depend on the bank monitoring. Moreover, this emphasizes the …
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achieve best management. The results indicate that financial incentives are likely to be requiredto encourage smaller graziers … to invest in changing their management practices, while largergraziers may only require incentives to balance the risk …
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The thesis consists of three main chapters on optimal incentives for a multi-level allocation process of HIV … allocate prevention funds optimally. Thus, incentives could be given to decision-makers to encourage optimal allocation ….Chapter 4 investigates the impact of incentives by developing a model in which an upper-level decision-maker (UD) allocates …
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Cogeneration of heat power is today receiving more attention by energy economists and policy makers - The enormous escalation of energy prices over the last decade has made energy efficiency an important economic factor for most energy users.The fact that combined steam - electricity schemes are...
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The Alliance to Save Energy conducted a study, funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation, of industrial and commercial electricity conservation opportunities in the service territory of Arkansas Power and Light Company (AP&L). The study determined if the ratepayers of the utility would be better...
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responses of their peers - when combined with financial incentives - produced more accurate performance. Other treatments …
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