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Transaction costs (TCs) in green building (GB) incentive schemes: Gross Floor Area (GFA) Concession Scheme in Hong Kong

open access: yesEnergy Policy, 2018
It is claimed that transaction costs (TCs) affect the effectiveness of any green building (GB) policy. However, few studies have empirically applied TC analysis to GB incentives, which normally should have analyzed the TCs borne by different stakeholders.
Kelvin Fan, E. Chan, Q. Qian
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Providing Consistent Service at the Concession Stands: An Exploratory Study

open access: yesJournal of Applied Marketing Theory, 2010
Concession sales are a critical revenue stream for sport and entertainment venues. Most research investigating concession revenues has focused upon quality and availability of food choices as well as the servicescape (Bigelow, 2004; Zeithaml, Bitner, and
Mark Nagel
doaj   +1 more source

BOT Contract through the optics of Albanian legal provisions - Issues of the implementation and transfer framework

open access: yesAcademicus International Scientific Journal, 2016
The last years have resulted in an increase of concession contracts in Albania, followed by a revised modern legal framework. Beside the debate on whether the government should perform most of the activities itself instead of giving them to the private ...
Entela Prifti
doaj   +1 more source

Enhancing the decision-making process for public-private partnerships infrastructure projects: a socio-economic system dynamic approach

open access: yesJournal of Engineering and Applied Science, 2022
Public-private partnerships (PPP) have many critical socio-economic concession variables that need to be determined during the negotiation of the PPP contracts. However, their determination presents complexities to decision-makers due to these components’
Faisal Alghamdi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Additive concessive conditionals

open access: yesJournal of Pragmatics, 2022
This paper develops an account of additive concessive conditionals, ACCs, such as the German Wir gehen wandern, auch wenn es regnet ‘We will go walking even (lit. also) if it is raining’. Concessivity is here understood as an essentially modal notion: the actual world does not conform to contextual assumptions, expectations or priorities (Muller 2016).
openaire   +2 more sources

Auctioning Concessions for Private Roads [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2004
Private toll roads are now seriously considered as an alternative to public (free-access) road infrastructure. Nevertheless, complete private provision without governmental control is only rarely considered. A main consideration against private roads would be that operators would be primarily interested in maximizing profits, which - given the market ...
Barry Ubbels, Erik Verhoef
openaire   +4 more sources

Concession Stands: How Mining Investments Incite Protest in Africa

open access: yesInternational Organization, 2018
Foreign investment in Africa's mineral resources has increased dramatically. This paper addresses three questions raised by this trend: do commercial mining investments increase the likelihood of social or armed conflict?
Darin Christensen
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Show concession

open access: yes, 2023
In an argument, a concession to the other's position weakens one's own. With what Antaki and Wetherell (1999) call a "show" concession, however, the speaker makes a play of conceding something, but only to disarm a potential objection and bolster their ...
Charles antaki
core   +1 more source

Theoretical and Law Bases of Noncommercial Concession

open access: yesУправленческое консультирование, 2020
Theoretical aspects of noncommercial concession use are considered in the article. It will allow to increase significantly efficiency of regional and local governing bodies interaction, and therefore the standard of living of municipalities population ...
E. V. Orlov
doaj   +1 more source

Contractual Systems in the Oil and Gas Sector: Current Status and Development

open access: yesEnergies, 2021
Production activities in the oil and gas industry are capital-intensive and associated with high technology, with these assets not always being available to oil-producing countries or national companies.
Fatima Dirani, Tatiana Ponomarenko
doaj   +1 more source

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