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Deregulation of the electricity generating industry, under way in the United States as well as in Europe, would yield … financial markets to manage price uncertainty. Electricity spot prices tend to be remarkably volatile as consequence of extreme … undertook the same process, as well as Norwey, Germany and Spain, we formulate a simple model to control the well functioning of …
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electricity market as the producers of green electricity are also suppliers of Green Certificates. In this paper, we formulate an … analytic equilibrium model for simultaneously functioning electricity and Green Certificates markets, and focus on the role of … market for Green Certificates and the electricity market as separate markets; and a Nash-Cournot game with endogenous …
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Advocates of fiscal decentralization argue that amongst other benefits, it can increase the efficiency of delivery of government services. This paper is one of the first to evaluate this claim empirically by looking at the association between expenditure decentralization and the productive...
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group of developed countries (France, Germany, Japan, and the UK)over the period 1985-2005. Using the stochastic production …
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We provide the first econometric study of efficiency for a member of the Mondragon group of worker cooperatives. Eroski is a retail distribution chain and, most unusually, there are two distinct types of hypermarkets: (i) cooperatives with significant employee ownership and voice; and (ii) GESPAs...
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This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's 'productive efficiency' (Farrell, 1957) using input-output and immigration sectoral data for seven industries in twelve countries during the period 1999-2001. We find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a...
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This article analyzes tacit collusion in infinitely repeated multiunit uniform price auctions in a symmetric oligopolywith capacity-constrained firms.Under two popular definitions of the uniform price, when each firm sets a price-quantity pair, perfect collusion with equal sharing of profit is...
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We sketch the main aspects of Greece’s electricity system from a market-based point of view. First, we provide data … electricity market. …
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in auction-type electricity markets. The methods considered include standard autoregression (AR) models, their extensions …
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, including those of wholesale electricity market. The long-term component filtering is an important part of price analysis since … an example of the Russian day-ahead electricity market (price zones Europe-Ural and Siberia). Our results shows that the …
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