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Competitive electricity markets and sustainability
Lévêque, François (contributor) - 2006
This book responds to the opening up of electricity markets to competition, which has completely changed the nature of power generation. The building of new generation and transmission capacity and the setting of the energy mix between nuclear, gas and renewable resources are mainly left to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851235
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Performance of the Chinese insurance industry under economic reforms
Yao, Shujie - 2010
first English language study in the literature to address the efficiency issue of the Chinese insurance sector, and presents … a comprehensive review on alternative methodologies for analyzing firm efficiency …ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. China's insurance market - development issues -- ch. 3. Review of efficiency studies in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852093
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The economics of hydroelectric power
Edwards, Brian Keith - 2003
Despite the extensive body of literature on energy economics, very little economics research has been conducted that focuses specifically on dams and hydroelectric power. Brian Edwards addresses this deficiency by examining the multiple roles that dams play, as well as the role of hydroelectric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474088
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Designing international environmental agreements : incentive compatible strategies for cost-effective cooperation
Schmidt, Carsten - 2000
The international character of today's most pressing environmental problems has become a key challenge for environmental policy making. As regulation by a supranational authority is not a realistic option at present, policymakers have to rely on decentralized approaches to the management of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473876
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The economic costs and consequences of terrorism
Richardson, Harry Ward (contributor);  … - 2007
Terrorism : considering new policies / Bruno S. Frey and Simon Luechinger -- An empirical analysis of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) / Howard Kunreuther and Erwann Michel-Kerjan -- Airport security : time for a new model / Robert W. Poole, Jr. -- Cost-effective strategies to address...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420039
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Electricity and energy policy in Britain, France and the United States since 1945
Chick, Martin - 2007
Introduction -- Shifting from coal to oil : what price security? -- The European coal and steel community -- Moving the margin to the centre : pricing electricity -- Electricity investment : rewarding the past, discounting the future -- Deregulation, privatisation and liberalisation -- Conclusion.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420063
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Competition, contracts and electricity markets : a new perspective
Hauteclocque, Adrien D. (contributor);  … - 2011
efficiency of electricity markets. These include the impact of long-term contracts and vertical integration on effective …pt. 1. Long-term contracts, investment and long-term efficiency -- pt. 2. Long-term contracts and imperfect competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851052
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Electricity reform in Europe : towards a single energy market
Lévêque, François (contributor);  … - 2009
The realisation of a European internal market for energy is still a work in progress. Written by leading European scholars and discussed with major energy stakeholders, this book presents a thorough analysis of the motives and methods needed to achieve a single European energy market
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851175
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Markets for carbon and power pricing in Europe : theoretical issues and empirical analyses
Gullì, Francesco (contributor) - 2008
Why do power prices seem to be correlated with the carbon price in some markets and not in others? This crucial question is at the centre of Francesco Gullì's enlightening book, through which the contributing authors investigate a number of related issues. In particular, they explore why power...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851445
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Electricity reform in China, India and Russia : the World Bank template and the politics of power
Xu, Yi-Chong - 2004
political preferences, and regards the economist's utilitarian social welfare theory as instrumental to the achievement of … indeterminacy of social welfare theory's fundamental theoretical constructs. In contrast, the author shows that Kant's 'two points … grounded in Kant's 'two points of view', that utilitarian social welfare theory cannot be instrumental to the achievement of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474027