Collaboration and Institutional Endurance in U.S. Water Policy

Collaboration and Institutional Endurance in U.S. Water Policy

C ollaborative institutions, which involve the collective decision-making by multiple political agencies, communities, and stakeholders, are becoming increasingly important for addressing policy dilemmas that are not bound within a single jurisdiction. This is especially true in the environmental arena ~Wondolleck and Yaffee 2000; Karkkainen 2002; Koontz et al. 2004; Lubell 2004; McKinney and H...

Human Rights in US Foreign Policy

Governing Decentralized Production: Institutions, Public Policy, and the Prospects for Inter-firm Collaboration in US Manufacturing

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Institutional Holdings and Payout Policy

We examine the relation between institutional holdings and payout policy in U.S. public firms between 1980 and 1996. We find that payout policy affects institutional holdings. Institutions avoid firms that do not pay any dividends. But among dividend paying firms, they prefer firms that pay fewer dividends. Our evidence indicates that institutions prefer firms that repurchase shares, and regula...

simulation and experimental studies for prediction mineral scale formation in oil field during mixing of injection and formation water

abstract: mineral scaling in oil and gas production equipment is one of the most important problem that occurs while water injection and it has been recognized to be a major operational problem. the incompatibility between injected and formation waters may result in inorganic scale precipitation in the equipment and reservoir and then reduction of oil production rate and water injection rate. ...