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Real gains from flow-based methods for allocating power transmission capacity in Europe

Rious, Vincent; Dessante, Philippe - HAL - 2009

This paper aims at understanding and assessing the main methods proposed by ETSO and EuroPEX [1] to define and allocate interconnection capacities in Europe. We model these methods and evaluate their technical and economic efficiency on a 7-node network. We find first, that, unsurprisingly, the...

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Prospects for the hydrogen transition based on the network economic approach : Insights from the electricity and gas experience in Europe

Bento, Nuno - HAL - 2007

This paper aims to investigate the transition to a new energy system based on hydrogen in the European liberalized framework. After analyzing the literature on the hydrogen infrastructure needs in Europe, we estimate the size and scope of the transition challenge.We take the theoretical...

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Economic Theory and Electrical public Utilities Organization in the first part of the twentieth century: French and US Experiences

Marty, Frédéric - HAL - 2008

in the first part of the twentieth century. It aims at showing how the organization of electricity sector and its … individual commitment in the public regulation building. Economists participate to the electricity sector re-organization by … electricity sector reforms and the links between economic history and history of economic thought. Finally, the purpose will be to …

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Electricity, carbon and weather in France: where do we stand ?

Chemarin, Sophie; Heinen, Andreas; Strobl, Eric - HAL - 2008

market by taking into account the existence of possible cross-spillovers between the French carbon and the French electricity … there is no short run relationship between the electricity and carbon returns, while there is a long run relationship …. However, this relationship suffers from a disequilibrium in that the electricity price readjust in the long run. We also find …

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An assessment of Incentive Regulation in electricity networks: The story so far

Khalfallah, Haikel - HAL - 2013

Network regulation is playing an active role in a context of restructuring energy systems for long term transition to a smart grid. Regulation of network companies' activities should consider both cost efficiency objectives and other objectives such as quality and network innovation. It is in...

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Overcoming inertia: insights from evolutionary economics into improved energy and climate policy

Lazaric, Nathalie; Maréchal, Kevin - HAL - 2010

The mainstream view in economics has been a key factor in designing climate policies. Given that the controversy over the “efficiency paradox” has shown that mainstream economics is not neutral in the way it deals with climate change, the purpose of this paper is to investigate what insights...

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Real Exchange Rate and Economic Growth: Evidence from Chinese Provincial Data (1992 - 2008)

Chen, Jinzhao - HAL - 2012

This paper studies the convergence, and the role of internal real exchange rate on economic growth in the Chinese provincial level. Using informal growth equation à la Barro [1991] and dynamic panel data estimation, we find conditional convergence among the coastal provinces and among inland...

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The Great Happiness Moderation

Clark, Andrew E.; Flèche, Sarah; Senik, Claudia - HAL - 2012

This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced positive income growth over the last forty years, in particular in developed countries. This new stylized fact comes as an addition to the Easterlin paradox, which states that...

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Economic Growth Evens-Out Happiness: Evidence from Six Surveys

Clark, Andrew E.; Flèche, Sarah; Senik, Claudia - HAL - 2014

In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality has dropped in countries that have experienced income growth (but not in those that did not). Modern growth has reduced the share of both the "very unhappy" and the "perfectly...

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International Financial Integration and Economic Growth: New Evidence on Threshold Effects

Chen, Jinzhao; Quang, Thérèse - HAL - 2012

Recent research highlights that countries differ with respect to their experience with capital flows and do not systematically gain from capital account liberalization. This paper is related to the empirical literature that investigates the particular conditions under which international...

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