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Market Design for Trading Commoditized Renewable Energy

Heshmati, Almas; Abolhosseini, Shahrouz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Information and communication technology plays an important role in achieving a higher level of energy efficiency. In particular, energy efficiency can be achieved by integrating information technology into electricity networks to enable the interaction between suppliers and customers (smart...

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Income vs. Consumption Inequality in South Korea: Evaluating Stochastic Dominance Rankings by Various Household Attributes

Heshmati, Almas; Rudolf, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Using four rounds (1999, 2002, 2005, 2008) of the Korean Labor and Income Panel Study (KLIPS), this article examines determinants of household income and consumption levels and inequalities. Unconditional as well as conditional stochastic dominance (SD) tests are performed by year, by household...

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Determinants of Financial Rewards from Industry-University Collaboration in South Korea

Han, Junghee; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The external circumstances for universities have been changing rapidly. In order to be competitive, survive, and flourish, universities have shown a growing enthusiasm to generate financial revenues externally. The literature refers to this phenomenon as academic capitalism, defined as the...

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Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth for Chinese Provinces: A Panel Data Analysis

Shiu, Alice; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We present in this paper the panel econometrics estimation approach of measuring the technical change and total factor productivity (TFP) growth of 30 Chinese provinces during the period of 1993 to 2003. The random effects model with heteroscedastic variances has been used for the estimation of...

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Development and Sources of Labor Productivity in Chinese Provinces

Su, Biwei; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

As China exhibited unprecedented rapid economic growth ever since its reform and openness, the development and sources …

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Analysis of the Determinants of Income and Income Gap between Urban and Rural China

Su, Biwei; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

-rural income inequality in China. OLS, conditional quantile regression and Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition methods are used to analyze … four waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) household data. Results show that education and occupation are …

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International Trade and its Effects on Economic Growth in China

Sun, Peng; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

the country to target the world as its market. This research discusses the role of international trade in China's economic … growth. It starts with a review of conceptions as well as the evolution of China's international trade regime and the policy … that China has taken in favor of trade sectors. In addition, China's international trade performance is analyzed …

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