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Factory Productivity and the Concession System of Incorporation in Late Imperial Russia, 1894–1908

The American Economic Review, 2020
In Imperial Russia, incorporation required an expensive special concession, yet over 4,000 Russian firms incorporated before 1914. I identify the characteristics of incorporating firms and measure the productivity gains and growth in machine power ...
Amanda Gregg
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Concession period optimisation in complex projects under uncertainty: a public–private partnership perspective

Construction Management and Economics, 2020
Concession period is decisive in public–private partnership (PPP) projects, particularly for complex projects. A systematic approach incorporating real option analysis (ROA) is proposed to optimise the concession under uncertainty.
Kai Guo, Limao Zhang, Tao Wang
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A risk-adjusted decoupled-net-present-value model to determine the optimal concession period of BOT projects

, 2020
PurposeThe net-present-value (NPV) method is well-known for its drawbacks. To overcome some of these NPV weaknesses this paper aims to provide a methodology to determine an optimal concession period that treats risk and time separately.
Nhat Nguyen   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Optimal parameters in concession contracts between container terminal operators and investors

, 2020
International investments in the port development become popular including the cases of Chinese companies who are continuously signing concession contracts with many other countries to promote the Belt and Road Initiative.
Yanjie Zhou, Kap-Hwan Kim
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Optimizing the concession period of PPP projects for fair allocation of financial risk

Engineering Construction and Architectural Management, 2019
Purpose Targeting public–private partnership (PPP) projects, the purpose of this paper is to help decision makers fairly allocate financial risk between governments and private investors through a properly designed length of concession period.
Hongyu Jin   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Structural Impediments to Policy Learning: Lessons from Colombia’s Road Concession Programs

, 2020
Although learning is the foundation of improved policymaking, little is known about policy learning in transportation programs. To address this knowledge gap, this article explores how two structural factors – (1) restricted information dissemination ...
Carter B. Casady, Julián Parra
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A Hybrid Concession Mechanism for Negotiating Software Agents in Competitive Environments

Int. J. Artif. Intell. Tools, 2020
This paper presents a new hybrid concession mechanism for negotiating agents. It considers both the current concession behavior of the proposing agent and the concession offered by its opponent in ...
Khalid Mansour
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Concession et scalarité

Journal of Latin Linguistics, 2010
Le but de cette communication est celui d’analyser certains types de propositions concessives pour lesquelles la notion de scalarité se révèle pertinente. Les concessives concernées par la scalarité ne sont pas de concessives factuelles, mais des conditionnelles concessives.
BERTOCCHI, ALESSANDRA, MARALDI, MIRKA
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A STRATEGIC CONCESSION GAME

International Game Theory Review, 1999
This paper considers a two-player negotiation problem with complete information and non-transferable payoffs/utilities. There are gains to be made by both players if they make bilateral concessions in their actions, relative to the status quo Nash equilibrium (NE) outcome.
Yeung, DWK, JØFrgensen, S
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Critical performance factors of public sector organizations in concession-based public-private partnership projects

Property Management, 2019
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate critical factors that impact public sector organizations’ (PSOs) performance in PPP contracts with a view to improving their capabilities toward efficient project delivery and attracting more private ...
A. Opawole   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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