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The costs of increasing precision for ecosystem services valuation studies
Ecological Indicators, 2022 Ecosystem services valuation (ESV) is increasingly used to provide the impetus to sustainably manage and restore ecosystems. When undertaking an ESV study, the available resources, desired scope, and necessary precision must be considered before ...
Ida Kubiszewski +6 more
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The value of customer involvement in new product development for company [PDF]
Marketing (Beograd. 1991), 2020 Modern companies are facing much tougher competition than before. In the past, companies were competing, mostly with other companies locally. Now companies can offer their products to customers beyond the local market.
Gligorijević Mirjana, Rusić Jovan
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The Impact of the Dodd-Frank Act on Financial Stability and Economic Growth
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2017 This article assesses the benefits and costs of key provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act that strengthened regulation following the financial crisis. The provisions are placed into five groupings: clear wins, clear losses, costly tradeoffs, unfinished ...
Martin Neil Baily +2 more
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Understanding the compliance costs of benefits and tax credits [PDF]
, 2009 This report describes a scoping study to understand more about the nature of the 'costs of compliance' that claimants of social security benefits and (personal) tax credits incur, and discusses possible ways of measuring such costs. 'Costs of compliance'
Shaw, J. +8 more
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Costs and Benefits of Speculation [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 We quantify the effects of financial regulation in an equilibrium model with delegated portfolio management. Fund managers trade stocks and bonds in an order-driven market, subject to transaction taxes and constraints on short-selling and leverage. Results are obtained on the equilibrium properties of portfolio choice, trading activity, market quality ...
Lensberg, Terje +2 more
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Evaluation support study of the costs and benefits of the implementation of LEADER [PDF]
, 2023 The objective of the assignment is to assess the added value of LEADER and the extent to which the increased costs of implementing the LEADER approach are justified by its additional benefits.
Kim Pollermann +4 more
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Conservation Science and Practice, 2023 Understanding the local communities' attitudes toward protected areas (PAs) is critical to PA management planning. However, what socio‐economic and demographic factors drive their attitude remains poorly studied.
Kabindra Shahi +4 more
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The Costs and Benefits of Kindness
The Journal of Positive Psychology, 2022 What is kindness, and what makes an act kind? Previous research has suggested that the kindness of an act depends on the benefit provided to the recipient, the cost to the actor, and the ratio of cost to benefit. Here we conduct two studies to investigate the relationship between the benefit, cost, cost-benefit ratio and the kindness of a large sample ...
Oliver Scott Curry +3 more
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Road safety audit †possibility to avoid a dangerous road section
Transport, 2005 The number of road traffic casualties is still very high, even though the number of fatalities in European countries is falling. In road traffic accidents involving personal injury, economic resources are destroyed and the productivity of economy is ...
Alvydas Pikūnas, Vidmantas Pumputis
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The Costs and Benefits of Consuming [PDF]
Journal of Consumer Research, 2000 Abstract Consuming is defined as behavior whereby entropy is increased in exchange for existential or experiential rewards. Existential rewards are well known—for example, the satisfaction of Maslowian needs. But experiential rewards are perhaps just as important: these refer to the temporary improvement in positive mood people ...
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