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Allocations and Lettings - Taking Customer Choice Forward in England?
Brown, Tim; Yates, Nicola - In: International Journal of Housing Policy 5 (2005) 3, pp. 343-357
A step change has taken place in allocations policy in England with the recent adoption of choice-based letting (CBL … national policy and local housing markets. It radically alters the allocations process but by itself it cannot rebalance high …
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Next Steps in Choice-based Letting in the Dutch Social Housing Sector
Daalen, Gelske Van; Land, Marco Van Der - In: International Journal of Housing Policy 8 (2008) 3, pp. 317-328
In the Dutch social housing sector, after almost 20 years of allocating dwellings with choice-based letting (CBL), there is a growing need to adapt the allocation systems currently in use. The policy debate on improvements in housing allocation centres around three main themes. First, many...
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Next Steps in Choice-based Letting in the Dutch Social Housing Sector
Daalen, Gelske Van; Land, Marco Van Der - In: European Journal of Housing Policy 8 (2008) 3, pp. 317-328
In the Dutch social housing sector, after almost 20 years of allocating dwellings with choice-based letting (CBL), there is a growing need to adapt the allocation systems currently in use. The policy debate on improvements in housing allocation centres around three main themes. First, many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005446281
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Who benefits from IPO underpricing? Evidence form hybrid bookbuilding offerings
Pons-Sanz, Vicente - 2005
This paper uses a unique sample of 175 Spanish equity offerings from 1985 to 2002 to test who benefits from IPO underpricing and why. Institutions receive nearly 75% of the profits in underpriced issues, while they have to bear only 56% of the losses in overpriced offerings. Superior information...
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Evaluation of resource impact factors versus social cost estimates in determining building energy performance standard levels
Nieves, L.A.; Nesse, R.J.; Adams, R.C.; McDonald, C.L. - 2011
In order to increase the welfare of society through the implementation of a building energy-performance standard, a method is required by which the least-cost means of obtaining the desired space conditioning of a building can be estimated. In other words, a life-cycle cost model must be...
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Energy research strategic plan
2009
Research and development is an essential element of economic prosperity and a traditional source of strength for the U.S. economy. During the past two decades, the way of introducing technological developments into the national economy has changed steadily. Previously, industry did most...
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Report to Congress on the Small Business Program
2008
The Department of Energy's (DOE) Small Business Program is characterized by its diligent involvement in the procurement process to enhance participation by small businesses, small disadvantaged businesses, labor surplus area firms, and women-owned businesses. The DOE's primary means of securing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435994
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Risk-based decision making for staggered bioterrorist attacks : resource allocation and risk reduction in "reload" scenarios.
Lemaster, Michelle Nicole; Gay, David M.; Ehlen, Mark Andrew - 2010
outbreak, followed by an optimization-under-uncertainty approach to perform resource allocations. We consider both single … confounded with a reporting delay. We demonstrate how our approach develops allocations profiles that have the potential to … the effect of placing limits on daily allocations. Further, since our method is data-driven, the resource allocation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436170
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Livermore Computing Production Control System, 3.0: Product description. Revision 1
Wood, R.R. - 2008
users. No cognizance can be taken of organizational structure or projects. Allocations cannot be managed at these levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436594
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How can energy-efficient structures compete in an inefficient energy market
Noll, S. - 2009
The only way resources can be efficiently allocated in our market system is if prices of resources, goods, and services properly reflect their true value to society. However, because of (a) imperfections in the pricing mechanisms that currently influence private-sector decision making; (b) the...
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