Search Results - subject:"Price spikes"

A Smooth Transition Logit Model of the Effects of Deregulation in the Electricity Market

Hurn, A S; Silvennoinen, Annastiina; Terasvirta, Timo - National Centre for Econometric Research (NCER) - 2014

electricity, specifically with respect to the well documented phenomenon of periodic abnormally high prices or price spikes. In … the structural change in nature and duration of price spikes in Queensland. The endogenous dating of the structural change …

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Modelling price spikes in electricity markets - the impact of load, weather and capacity

Handika, Rangga; Truong, Chi; Trueck, Stefan; Weron, Rafal - Hugo Steinhaus Center for Stochastic Methods, … - 2014

magnitude of price spikes in regional Australian electricity markets. We apply the so-called Heckman correction, a two … significant variables for the occurrence of price spikes, while electricity loads and relative air temperature are significant … regression models with respect to forecasting the magnitude of electricity price spikes. …

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The Silver Lining of Price Spikes: How Electricity Price Spikes Can Help Overcome the Energy Efficiency Gap

Mauritzen, Johannes - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

Studies have shown that many consumers and businesses fail to invest in energy efficiency improvements despite seemingly ample financial incentives to do so – the so called energy efficiency gap or paradox. Attempts to explain this gap often focus on searching costs, information frictions and...

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Agricultural Price Distortions: Trends and Volatility, Past and Prospective

Anderson, Kym - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013

Historically, earnings from farming in many developing countries have been depressed by a pro-urban bias in own-country policies, as well as by governments of richer countries favouring their farmers with import barriers and subsidies. Both sets of policies reduced global economic welfare and...

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Economywide impact of maize export bans on agricultural growth and household welfare in Tanzania: A Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Model Analysis:

Diao, Xinshen; Kennedy, Adam; Mabiso, Athur; Pradesha, Angga - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013

We study the impact of export bans in Tanzania using a computable general equilibrium model. We find that although maize is an important food crop in Tanzania, its contribution to food price inflation is rather limited, and that banning cross-border maize exports lowers the national food price...

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The Silver Lining of Price Spikes: How electricity price spikes can help overcome the energy efficiency gap

Mauritzen, Johannes - Institutt for foretaksøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2013

Studies have shown that many consumers and businesses fail to invest in energy efficiency improvements despite seemingly ample financial incentives to do so – the so-called energy efficiency gap. Attempts to explain this gap often focus on searching costs, information frictions and behavioral...

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