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Survey of models on demand, customer base-line and demand response and their relationships in the power market
Heshmati, Almas - 2012
The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated interest among researchers, consumers and producer organizations, managers, regulators and policymakers, This research reviews the growing literature on models used to study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548648
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The unemployment impact of product and labour market regulation : evidence from European countries
Piton, Céline; Rycx, François - 2018
This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment using data for 24 European countries over the period 1998-2013. Controlling for country-fixed effects, endogeneity and a large set of covariates, results show that product market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011871988
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Nonlinear pricing under regulation : comparing cap rules and taxes in the laboratory
Nuño Ledesma, José G.; Wu, Steven Y. - 2022
regulations, we aim to halve the size of the unregulated large option. Compared to the regulation-free baseline, sellers facing a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013440183
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Measuring and interpreting trends in the division of labour in the Netherlands
Akçomak, İbrahim Semih; Borghans, Lex; Weel, Bas ter - 2011
together tasks; comparative advantage stimulates unbundling and specialisation. The estimates suggest that on average the … Netherlands has witnessed unbundling in the period 1996-2005, which implies that advantages of specialisation have increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009248035
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Estimation of productivity in Korean electric power plants : a semiparametric smooth coefficient model
Heshmati, Almas; Kumbhakar, Subal; Sun, Kai - 2013
This paper analyzes the impact of load factor, facility and generator types on the productivity of Korean electric power plants. In order to capture important differences in the effect of load policy on power output, we use a semiparametric smooth coefficient (SPSC) model that allows us to model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009721346
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Regulatory barriers and entry in developing economies
Bennett, John (contributor); Estrin, Saul (contributor) - 2006
We model entry by entrepreneurs into new markets in developing economies with regulatory barriers in the form of licence fees and bureaucratic delay. Because laissez faire leads to 'excessive' entry, a licence fee can increase welfare by discouraging entry. However, in the presence of a licence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003328066
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Interacting product and labor market regulation and the impact of immigration on native wages
Prantl, Susanne; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2014
Does interacting product and labor market regulation alter the impact of immigration on wages of competing native … labor market: one segment without product and labor market regulation, to which standard immigration models best apply, one … segment in which product and labor market regulation interact, and one segment covering intermediate groups of workers. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230515
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Add-on pricing, naive consumers, and the hidden welfare costs of education
Kosfeld, Michael; Schüwer, Ulrich - 2011
is sufficiently well informed about consumer and firm behavior. -- bounded rationality ; competition ; regulation …
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Privatisation in developing countries : what are the lessons of recent experience?
Estrin, Saul; Pelletier, Adeline - 2016
This paper reviews recent empirical evidence on privatisation in developing countries. Particular emphasis is placed on new areas of research such as the distributional impacts of privatisation. Overall, the literature now reflects a more cautious and nuanced evaluation of privatisation. Thus it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571943
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Slippery fish : enforcing regulation under subversive adaptation
Gonzalez Lira, Andres; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - 2019
Attempts to curb illegal activity through regulation gets complicated when agents can adapt to circumvent enforcement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985950