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Cheaper electricity or a better river? Estimating fluvial ecosystem value in Southern France

Créti, Anna; Pontoni, Federico - HAL - 2014

In the next years, France will renew a consistent share of hydroelectric concessions, among which we find those insisting on the Aspe and its tributaries (for a total of almost 100 MW). Beauty contests will take place, where bidders will present offers for technical and environmental...

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Institutions and Electricity Systems Transition towards Decarbonisation : The hidden change of the market regime

Finon, Dominique - HAL - 2012

are still unaware of the impacts that carbon policies directly focused on the development of low carbon technologies … technologies (peaking units, CCGT) will fade away. That means that in the future, public co-ordination and planning will completely … replace market players' decisions, not only for low carbon technologies, but for every capacity development. …

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Is Energy Storage an Economic Opportunity for the Eco-Neighborhood?

Cadre, Hélène Le; Mercier, David - HAL - 2012

In this article, we consider houses belonging to an eco-neighborhood which inhabitants have the capacity to optimize dynamically the energy demand and the energy storage level so as to maximize their utility. The inhabitants' preferences are characterized by their sensitivity toward comfort...

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Out of control: impact of goal structure on personal control and implications for consumer judgments

Khenfer, Jamel - HAL - 2013

Aim: This paper presents empirical foundations for the study of the effect of goal structure on consumer judgment through lack of personal control. Methods: Three experiments were conducted. Results: Our experiments indicate that mental representation of consumer goal does affect personal...

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Is Energy Storage an Economic Opportunity for the Eco-Neighborhood?

Cadre, Hélène Le; Mercier, David - HAL - 2013

In this article, we consider houses belonging to an eco-neighborhood in which inhabitants have the capacity to optimize dynamically the energy demand and the energy storage level so as to maximize their utility. The inhabitants' preferences are characterized by their sensitivity toward comfort...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821046

Export Behaviour and Propensity to Innovate in a Developing Country: The Case of Tunisia

Rahmouni, Mohieddine; Yildizoglu, Murat; Ayadi, Mohamed - HAL - 2011

The relation between export behaviour and the propensity to innovate is an important question for a developing economy. This article dedicated to this question through the analysis of the first innovation survey of Tunisian firms. We analyze the relationship between the export behaviour and the...

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Polluting Industrialization

Constant, Karine; Nourry, Carine; Seegmuller, Thomas - HAL - 2011

technological innovations, promotes such a polluting development process, escaping a trap where the economy is relegated to a low …

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Modelling Transition And International Opening In Asia: The Case Of Vietnam With A Comparison With China And The "Asian Tigers"

Sand-Zantman, Alain; Brillet, Jean-Louis; Van, Cuong Le; … - HAL - 2000

This paper describes the multisectoral macroeconomic model of a small developing economy in transition, in order to highlight linkages between agriculture and the rest of the economy, and consequences of external opening up. Agriculture is a supply sector, sticky in the short range with market...

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Cutting the Climate-Development Gordian Knot - Economic options in a politically constrained world

Hourcade, Jean Charles; Shukla, P.-R.; Mathy, Sandrine - HAL - 2005

from development issues. In addition to the impossibility to get an agreement on rules for quota allocation among all the … parties, this system shows irreconcilable contradictions between climate and development issues. This article aims, starting … from examples of synergies between climate and development, at enunciating bases of an amended Kyoto Protocol which could …

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Will GDP growth increase happiness in developing countries?

Clark, Andrew E.; Senik, Claudia - HAL - 2010

ones. Second, development is a qualitative process that involves take-offs and thresholds. Such regime changes are eye …-income countries, they would certainly help measuring and monitoring the different stages and dimensions of the development process. …

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