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We develop a theoretical model of long-run investment decisions on capacity in the context of a liberalized electricity … the level of capacity that maximizes social welfare, and compare it to a decentralized outcome. We show that in the … absence of any regulation, private investment decisions on capacity unambiguously lead to a socially sub-optimal outcome, and …
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We study the optimal capacity and lifetime of landfills taking into account their sequential nature.Such an optimal … capacity is characterized by the so-called Optimal Capacity Condition.Particular versions of this condition are obtained for … two alternative settings: first, if all the landfills are to have the same capacity, and second, if each of them is …
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.There are no restrictions whatsoever on the processing schedule.The main feature of the model is a capacity restriction, i … each player have an individual capacity for handling jobs, each coalition of cooperating players in fact faces a processing … problem with the coalitional capacity being the sum of the individual capacities of the members.The corresponding processing …
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a model in which facilities can produce output at a privately known cost up to a previously-determined capacity level …. In such a model, the amount of slack in the firm is shown to be pro-cyclical. Indeed, as capacity constraints become … capacity. …
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Following a Supreme Court decision in 1954, natural gas markets in the U.S. were subject to 35 years of intensive federal regulation. Several studies have measured the deadweight loss from the price ceilings that were imposed during this period. This paper concentrates on an additional component...
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Inaccurate measures of the aggregate price level may distort short-run policy decisions and may produce misleading comparisons of productivity growth across decades and among nations. Primarily intended for non-US readers, this paper serves the dual purpose of reviewing compactly the vast US...
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This paper examines the extent to which the destination of exports matters for the input prices paid by firms, using … destinations and find that exporting to richer countries leads firms to charge more for outputs and pay higher prices for inputs …
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Using annual data from several sources, we study the evolution of M1, M2, income, prices and long and short interest … rates in Ireland over the period 1933-2012. We find cointegration and that prices, income and interest rates are weakly …
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