The paper discusses the Russian power sector reform plan, approved by the government in July 2001, which outlines the framework for competition and changes in ownership structure. The paper focuses on the following issues related to the plan: restructuring of regional energos and large generating companies; restructuring of transmission and system operation; the mechanism for introducing compet...

BACKGROUND There is a consensus about the importance of 'recovery' in mental health services, but the evidence base is limited. METHODS/DESIGN A two centre, cluster randomised controlled trial. Participants are community-based mental health teams, and service users aged 18-65 years with a primary clinical diagnosis of psychosis. In relation to the REFOCUS Manual researchintorecovery.com/refoc...

This dissertation consists of three chapters that study issues in Corporate Finance and Industrial Organization related to the behavior of markets with asymmetric information. The first two chapters study the economics of credit rating agencies; the third chapter examines a process of social learning about product quality. Chapter 1 models the effect of rating agency competition on the quality ...

in this study, irib regarding to the position and its functions of as a medium of communication has been analyzed and tried to identify the national and global key factors, in the next ten years to 1404, influencing it in political, social, economic and technological environment and then found out the organizational capabilities. therefore the future situation of a very large and very complex o...

This paper is concerned with two sets of issues related to optimality in planning. The first is a proposal that design of decision support systems (DSS’s) for planning should aim to support the planner in generating a plan that is robust, i.e., has satisfactory performance even when reality differs from assumptions. Such a plan would sacrifice optimality when reality is as assumed for reasonabl...

modern societies belief life insurance scheme, which is designed to be backbone of man survival, ensure financial security and offers readymade source of long term capital financing for the infrastructural project is capable of combating the besetting problem of man so that life can be made easy and continuous. the dramatic increase in competition within the insurance sector and the needs of in...