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This work is a PhD dissertation, written at the Department of Economics, McGill University. The thesis offers a new framework for inflation as a process of restructuring. Contrary to existing theories of inflation, which tend to take structure and institutions as given for the purpose of...
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In April 2009, we introduced a model representing the evolution of motor fuel price (a subcategory of the consumer … price index of transportation) relative to the overall CPI as a linear function of time. Under our framework, all price … deviations from the linear trend are transient and the price must promptly return to the trend. Specifically, the model predicted …
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periods characterized by sustainable linear trends in the difference between the headline consumer price index (CPI) and the … core CPI in the USA. Then we revealed similar behavior in the differences between the CPI and indices of various consumer … the evolution of motor fuel price (a subcategory of the consumer price index of transportation) relative to the core CPI …
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We present a hybrid mechanism application for the electrical system network expansion in Mexico, United States and Canada. The application is based on redefining the transmission output in terms of "point-to-point" transactions or financial transmission rights (FTRs); rebalancing the fixed and...
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This paper presents an application of a mechanism that provides incentives to promote transmission network expansion in the electricity system of the Ontario province. Such a mechanism combines a merchant approach with a regulatory approach. It is based on the rebalancing of a two-part tariff...
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, illustrate that such unusual properties do not stand in the way of applying price-cap incentive mechanisms to real …
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This paper examines the Hogan-Rosellón-Vogelsang (2007) (HRV) incentive mechanism for transmission expansion, and tests it for different network topologies. This new mechanism is based upon redefining transmission output in terms of point-to-point transactions or financial transmission rights...
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regulator can force the firm to sell the following forward contracts: the firm pays the downstream price to the owners of a …
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We study the impact of different regulatory contracts of electricity companies on their dividend policy. Using a panel of 106 publicly traded European electric utilities in the period 1986-2011 we link dividend pay-out and smoothing ratios to the implementation of different regulatory mechanisms...
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I estimate short and long-run price elasticities of U.S. natural gas supply and demand. For robustness, the estimates … numbers themselves, there are two main conclusions. As expected, U.S. price elasticities of natural gas supply are higher in … both the short and long-run when the e�ffects of shale are included in the sample (post-2007). The calculated price …
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