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The transition from apartheid to integrated development is a contradictory process characterised by negotiations between an intervention and a market-driven liberal approach. Regarding agriculture, it was expected that a highly efficient and economically viable market-directed farming sector...
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If the output market is perfectly competitive and the firm’s production function is not concave, an increase in the output price may lead to an explosive increase in firm’s profits at some point. We explore the properties of this point, called a threshold price. We derive the formula for the...
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This paper studies the impact of wind generation on system costs and prices in Ireland. The need to mitigate climate change, achieve renewables energy targets, and use renewable sources of energy means that many countries are considering greater levels of wind generation in their power...
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Electricity transmission has become the pivotal industry segment for electricity restructuring. Yet, little is known about the shape of transmission cost functions. Reasons for this can be a lack of consensus about the definition of transmission output and the complexitity of the relationship...
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accounting’ measure of productivity increase, as referred to the industry, has an equivalent dual measure, based on what may be … productivity increase in relation to inflation/deflation, earnings dispersion, long-run variations in domestic relative prices and …
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efficiency/productivity analysis we can find in research works; that is those methodologies more usual in academic journals …
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productivity of small farmers is not only higher than the medium farmers, it increases with access to credit. In terms of access to …
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consists of various sized private and non-private firms. Numerous previous studies find that deregulation leads to productivity … unique firm level data. This study measures productivity to evaluate the effect of the deregulation reform. Using data from … contributes to advanced productivity. The deregulation of gas sales to commercial customers is the most important factor for …
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This paper tries to investigate efficiency of electricity use of 30 administration regions and productivity change of … electricity use and productivity change of electricity. From an empirical perspective, we provide a framework to investigate the … situation of relative efficiency of electricity use and the growth rate of electricity’s productivity. The results indicate that …
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This study analyses, through cross-section estimation methods, the influence of spatial effects in productivity … the analyses of the data, by using Moran I statistics, it is stated that productivity is subject to a positive spatial … autocorrelation (productivity of each of the regions develops in a similar manner to each of the neighbouring regions), above all in …
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