Search results
You search for increase and 805,090 records were found.
This is one of hundreds of 60-second radio spots created by the Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS) for Kansas Public Radio (KPR). The purpose of this outreach program is to introduce the people of Kansas to the culture and current issues of East Asia.
A grave crise financeira Europeia levou já 3 paises a recorrer à ajuda externa da Uniao Europeia, entre eles Portugal. No acordo realizado com a „Troika‟, entre as muitas medidas impostas a serem realizadas pelo Estado Português, também os bancos ficaram sujeitos a diversas restrições, entre elas o cumprimento de rácios de solvência de capital.
Foi precisamente este o objectivo do aumento de capital efectuado pelo Millennium BCP em 2011 no valor de 1.370.400.000€, o qual foi realizado em 3 fases distintas. A primeira correspondeu a uma incorporação de reservas num valor de 120.400.000 Euros e emissão de 206.518.010 novas acções sem valor nominal. Quanto à segunda fase, foi através de uma Oferta Pública de Troca na qual o Millennium BCP propôs a troca aos detentores de VMPS por acções do banco num valor total de 1.000.000.000 Euros. Po...
<p>How incentives increase inequality</p>
Black and white text on a yellow and red background.
Objectives(1) To test whether public psychiatric bed reduction may increase suicide rates; (2) to investigate whether the supply of private hospital psychiatric beds—separately for not-for-profit and for-profit—can substitute for public bed reduction without increasing suicides; and (3) to examine whether the level of community mental health resources moderates the relationship between public bed reduction and suicide rates.MethodsWe examined state-level variation in suicide rates in relation to psychiatric beds and community mental health spending in the United States for the years 1982–1998. We categorize psychiatric beds separately for public, not-for-profit, and for-profit hospitals.Principal FindingsReduced public psychiatric bed supply was found to increase suicide rates. We found no evidence that not-for-profit or for-profit bed...
We determine the optimal level of bonuses in the case of Co-production between an agent and multiusers. There is Co-production when the outcome is the result of both the agent's effort and the user's effort and type. Paying bonuses to the agent encourages him to vary his effort according to the user he meets. This variety in the agent's effort results in an increase in inequality. Hence, the optimal level of bonuses is muted when the principal cares about equality among users. This is typically the case in education or health. Copyright 2006 The Author; Journal compilation 2006 CEIS, Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini and Blackwell Publishing Ltd..
Mergers Default risk Asset diversification
Two experiments show that repeated exposure to information about a target person reduces individuation and thereby increases
stereotyping of the target person based on social group memberships. The eVect is not due to familiarity-induced liking (the mere
exposure eVect), nor is it mediated by increased accessibility of the target’s social category, nor by increases in perceived social judgeability.
The results are most consistent with the use of feelings of familiarity as a regulator of processing mode, such that familiar
objects receive less systematic or analytic processing. In everyday life, frequent exposure to another person ordinarily produces not
only familiarity but also liking, individuated knowledge, and friendship, factors that may eVectively limit stereotyping. But when previous
exposure is unconfounded from these oth...
The wave of privatization in the 1980s and 1990s increased productivity of many previously state owned enterprises (SOEs). However, governments often do not have su±cient support to privatize SOEs. We provide evidence that threatening privatization and market competition (entry of new firms) can increase the productivity of SOEs, even though privatization and entry of new ¯rms does not occur. We study productivity at Brazil's state-owned oil company Petrobras. After it lost its legal monopoly Petrobras's total factor
productivity increased sharply. These large gains occurred despite the fact that Petrobras faced no immediate de facto competition. The threat of competition and privatization was su±cient to generate large productivity gains. These findings suggest that changing the competitive environment can be a powerful force for impr...
The wave of privatization in the 1980s and 1990s increased productivity of many previously state owned enterprises (SOEs). However, governments often do not have su±cient support to privatize SOEs. We provide evidence that threatening privatization and market competition (entry of new firms) can increase the productivity of SOEs, even though privatization and entry of new ¯rms does not occur. We study productivity at Brazil's state-owned oil company Petrobras. After it lost its legal monopoly Petrobras's total factor
productivity increased sharply. These large gains occurred despite the fact that Petrobras faced no immediate de facto competition. The threat of competition and privatization was su±cient to generate large productivity gains. These findings suggest that changing the competitive environment can be a powerful force for impr...
