Institutional Innovation in New Towns: The Dual Developer Concept [PDF]
, 1975 New communities have long been celebrated as models for increased order and quality in the process by which rural land is brought into urban use and urban land into more intensive use. At the community level, innovations may be more readily tested in new
Nicoson, William
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Entrepreneurial Financing, Advice, and Agency Costs [PDF]
This paper studies the interplay between advice and agency costs in entrepreneurial financing. We show that advise may exacerbate agency problems, because the agent may use it at the investor's expense and thereby hurt investors.
Roland Strausz
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Conservation and Climate Change Mitigation: A Framework and Principles from Regional Government’s Perspective and Its Financing Implication [PDF]
This paper highlights the importance of regional governments in the context of Indonesian struggle to resolve the problem of climate change, in particular, and wider area of environmental problem. It emphasizes, that regional governments, more often than
Arief Anshory Yusuf
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Growth participation units: A proposal for a long-term financial instrument [PDF]
, 2008 The financing of long-term growth in developing countries has become more of a problem every year. In the following article one particular new financial instrument — Growth Participation Units — is discussed as a particular way to attract private sector ...
Agmon, Tamir B.
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The use of conversation mapping to frame key perceptual issues facing the general dental practice system in England [PDF]
, 2009 <b>Objective</b>: To demonstrate the use of a novel qualitative methodology namely conversation mapping, which can be used to capture differences in stakeholder perspectives and give a root definition of the problem in a complex policy area ...
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Research on the credit risk of small and micro enterprises under “The Belt and Road Initiative”
E3S Web of Conferences, 2018 Under the “The Belt and Road Initiative”, small and micro enterprises have new opportunities and new challenges. At present, the biggest problem facing the development of small and micro enterprises is the financing problem, and it is imminent to solve ...
Liu Zhanyu, Sun Xialing
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Self-Financing Environmental Mechanisms [PDF]
We explore the design of self-financing tax/subsidy mechanisms to solve hold-up problems in environmental regulation. Under Cournot competition, announcing the subsidy rate seems to be preferable to announcing the tax rate.
Hans Gersbach, Joerg Breitscheidel
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The macro financing of natural hazards in developing countries [PDF]
The authors propose a financial model to address the design of efficient risk financing strategies against natural disasters at the country level. It is simple enough to shed analytical light on some of the key issues but flexible and realistic enough to
Gurenko, Eugene, Mahul, Olivier
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Growth-optimal portfolios under transaction costs [PDF]
, 2007 This paper studies a portfolio optimization problem in a discrete-time Markovian model of a financial market, in which asset price dynamics depend on an external process of economic factors.
Palczewski, Jan, Stettner, Lukasz
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Renewal of Patents and Government Financing [PDF]
I apply a survival model to a detailed dataset of Swedish patents to estimate how different factors affect the likelihood of patent renewal. Since the owners know more about the patents than potential external financiers, there is a problem of asymmetric
Svensson, Roger
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