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Through the Hartz reforms, German active labor market policy was fundamentally restructured and has since been systematically evaluated. This paper reviews the recent evaluation findings and draws some conclusions for the future setup of active labor market policies in Germany. It argues in...
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predicts and influences the generation investment. The lower level is the optimal generation dispatch and investment. The … Transco funds its transmission investment costs by collecting merchandising surplus and charging a fixed fee to consumers. The …-maximum outcomes. The profit-maximizing approach has also been successful in cases where transmission investment is driven by demand …
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-sharp representation. A cost minimizing mixed-integer problem (MIP) model calculates where in the European electricity grid expansion needs … grid. Resulting investment costs are compared to the numbers of the European Energy Roadmap 2050. …
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the potential of harnessing large amounts of renewable electricity, but also concerns about the implementation in largely … electricity generators in France, Germany, and Poland, and the consumers in low-price countries, e.g. Norway and Sweden. Merchant … capacities, and much of the investment will have to be regulated to come about. We also find strong interdependencies between …
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planning of generators and cannot not be fully diminished by wind forecasts. In this paper we develop a stochastic electricity … market model to analyze the impact of uncertain wind generation on the different electricity markets as well as network … of the electricity markets is incorporated by a rolling planning procedure reflecting the market regime of European …
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This article presents an integrated electricity dispatch and load flow model with endogenous electricity generation …
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In einem neueren Beitrag diskutieren Pratt and Zeckhauser (JPE, 1996), welches Maß der marginalen Zahlungsbereitschaft (WTP) von Individuen für die Reduktion ihrer Sterbewahrscheinlichkeit bei öffentlichen Entscheidungen über gefahrenerhebliche Projekte verwendet werden sollte. Sie schlagen...
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In the expected-utility theory of the monetary value of a statistical life, the so-called "dead-anyway" effect discovered by Pratt and Zeckhauser (1996) asserts that an individuals' willingness to pay (WTP) for small reductions in mortality risk increases with the initial level of risk. Their...
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Propensity Score Matching (PSM) has become a popular approach to estimate causal treatment effects. It is widely applied when evaluating labour market policies, but empirical examples can be found in very diverse fields of study. Once the researcher has decided to use PSM, he is confronted with...
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Turning unemployment into self-employment has become an increasingly important part of active labor market policies (ALMP) in many OECD countries. Germany is a good example where the spending on start-up subsidies for the unemployed accounted for nearly 17% of the total spending on ALMP in 2004....
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