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Scrapping a Wind Turbine: Policy Changes, Scrapping Incentives and Why Wind Turbines in Good Locations Get Scrapped First

Mauritzen, Johannes - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

The most common reason for scrapping a wind turbine in Denmark is to make room for a newer turbine. The decision to scrap a wind turbine is then highly dependent on an opportunity cost that comes from the interaction of scarce land resources, technological change and changes in subsidy policy....

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Agricultural Pricing and Growth

Hartler, Christina - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1991

No abstract.

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Now or Later? Trading Wind Power Closer to Real-time and How Poorly Designed Subsidies Lead to Higher Balancing Costs

Mauritzen, Johannes - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013

An important challenge facing many deregulated electricity markets is dealing with the increasing penetration of intermittent generation. Simulation studies have pointed to the advantages of trading closer to real-time with large amounts of intermittent generation. Using Danish data, I show...

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Poverty in Rural Cambodia: The Differentiated Impact of Linkages, Inputs and Access to Land

Engvall, Anders; Sjöberg, Örjan; Sjöholm, Fredrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007

Cambodia has been growing rapidly over the past few years but still remains one of the poorest countries in East Asia. In particular, poverty is widespread in rural Cambodia. This paper examines rural poverty in Cambodia with a view to furthering our understanding of the factors that might...

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Improving the Lot of the Farmer: Development Challenges in Timor-Leste during the Second Decade of Independence

Lundahl, Mats; Sjöholm, Fredrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

Timor-Leste’s first ten years of independence have been turbulent and a large share of the population remains poor. Broad-based improvements in living standards will require improvements in agricultural production since most Timorese are subsistence farmers and since there is no modern sector...

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Frontier Production Functions and Technical Progress: A Study of Teneral Milk Processing in Swedish Dairy Plants

Førsund, Finn R.; Hjalmarsson, Lennart - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1977

Technical change in general milk processing is estimated within a homothetic frontier production function allowing neutrally variable scale elasticity. The results show that technical progress is characterized by a rapid increase in optimal scale and a small capital saving bias, increasing the...

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Competitive Pressure and Technology Adoption: Evidence from a Policy Reform in Western Canada

Ferguson, Shon; Olfert, Rose - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013

We measure the impact of the removal of a railway transportation subsidy on the adoption of technology for Western Canadian farms, using a unique combination of Census and freight rate data. We exploit the large regional variation in these one-time freight rate increases in order to identify...

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Generalized Farrell Measures of Efficiency: An Application to Milk Processing in Swedish Dairy Plants

Førsund, Finn R.; Hjalmarsson, Lennart - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1978

This paper is concerned with the measurement of productive efficiency. Farrell's measures of efficiency are generalized to nonhomogeneous production functions. Several new measures of efficiency have been introduced and applied to the Swedish milk processing industry. The empirical analysis is...

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The WTO Dispute Settlement System 1995-2010: Some Descriptive Statistics

Horn, Henrik; Johannesson, Louise; Mavroidis, Petros C. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011

The Dispute Settlement (DS) system is a central feature of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement. This … compulsory and binding two-level mechanism for the adjudication of disputes between WTO Members is the most active among … WTO Dispute Settlement Data Set. The data set covers all 426 WTO disputes initiated through the official filing of a …

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Trade Agreements as Endogenously Incomplete Contracts

Horn, Henrik; Maggi, Giovanni; Staiger, Rikard W. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007

We propose a model of trade agreements in which contracting is costly, and as a consequence the optimal agreement may be incomplete. Inspite of its simplicity, the model yields rich predictions on the structure of the optimal trade agreement and how this depends on the fundamentals of the...

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