BACKGROUND The success in learning of emergency depends on many factors that can be summarized as: student, instructors and course. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the influence of financial subsidy and venue of course in learning cardiovascular emergency. METHODS Data were analyzed regarding the courses of Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) in the period from December 2005 to December 2006. In agr...

The concern over population decline has led Taiwan government to examine how and to what extent pronatalist policies could reverse the trend. The exclusive provision of the education subsidy to government employees allows us to examine whether the availability of the education subsidy explains differences in fertility behavior between public-sector and private-sector households. In 1996, the go...

The low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) is the largest project-based housing subsidy in the United States. Within the program, private developers receive a subsidy in exchange for constructing apartment units that rent for a predetermined affordable rate. Because the subsidy requires apartment buildings to charge a lower rental rate, the opportunity cost of developing subsidized housing in a ...

We consider a demand management problem in an energy community, which several users obtain from external organization such as company and pay for the according to pre-specified prices that consist of time-dependent price per unit well separate peak demand. Since users’ utilities are their private information, they may not be willing share, mediator, known planner, is introduced help optimize ov...

Introduction The scarcity of resources have affected food production, which has challenged the ability Iran to provide adequate for population. Iterative and mounting sanctions on by international community seriously eroded Iran's access agricultural technology support a growing Limited moisture availability also affects production. aim this study was analyze influence inflation, sanctions, wea...

Will the Opportunity Zones (OZ) program, America's largest new place-based policy in decades, generate neighborhood change? We compare single-family housing price growth OZs with areas that were eligible but not included program. also to their nearest geographic neighbors. Our most credible estimates rule out impacts greater than 0.5 percentage points 95% confidence, suggesting that, so far, ho...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Loss aversion Downward housing price rigidity Monetary policy Threshold error correction model Asymmetric adjustment Previous studies have discovered the defensive characteristics of housing prices, which is also known as downward price rigidity. This paper discusses whether this feature would result in an asymmetric relationship between housing prices and moneta...

Some favor maintaining constraints on bank powers and organizational form because they believe banks receive a significant net subsidy from access to the federal safety net. They argue that this net subsidy will be successfully transferred to subsidiaries or affiliates engaged in non-traditional activities, giving these units a significant competitive advantage vis a vis rivals not affiliated w...

We study the capitalisation of subsidies in European Union (EU) regions years 2006-2008, first after introduction Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) 2003 reform that decoupled from production and attached them to land. For this purpose, we use regional aggregated data estimate rate upon entire sample and, a second stage, splitting according implementation regime applied by different EU Member Sta...