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This paper presents a set of panel data to study the diffusion of retail checkout barcode scanning in ten European countries over the period 1981-1996. Estimates from a standard diffusion model suggest that countries differ most in the long-run diffusion level of barcode scanning and less in...
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In response to increasing health expenditures and a high number of physician visits, the German government introduced a copayment for ambulatory care in 2004 for individuals with statutory health insurance (SHI). Because persons with private insurance were exempt from the copayments, this health...
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We evaluate the effect of the federal students' financial assistance scheme (BAfoeG) on enrolment rates into higher education by exploiting the exogenous variation introduced through a discrete shift in the repayment regulations. Supported students had to repay the full loan until 1990....
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This paper proposes an incentive mechanism for transmission expansion planning. The mechanism is a bilevel program. The upper level is a profit-maximizing transmission company (Transco) which expands its transmission system while endogenously predicts and influences the generation investment....
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-sharp representation. A cost minimizing mixed-integer problem (MIP) model calculates where in the European electricity grid expansion needs …
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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 …
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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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We study the performance of different regulatory approaches for the expansion of electricity transmission networks in …
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