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Policies that impact the production sector, such as intermediate goods taxation (e.g. taxing robots) and trade liberalization create winners and losers. When do we need to integrate pre-distribution concerns in the design of these production policies? Should we consider the endogenous changes of...
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We investigate the impacts of electricity market restructuring on fuel efficiency, utilization and, new to this area … without. Our analysis finds that restructuring led to: (1) a two percent improvement in fuel efficiency for IOs, (2) a ten ….6 percent emissions reduction per plant. -- restructuring ; efficiency ; cost ; utilization ; emissions …
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Electricity transmission redistributes environmental impacts across space. We exploit episodes of high electricity transmission system congestion to explore changes in ambient concentrations of air pollutants in the eastern United States. Reducing electricity system congestion decreases ozone...
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less usual consideration of efficiency frontiers for service-quality builds on previous static applications in the context …
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efficiency of the community. …
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efficiency change and technical change. The data we use is from Sweden and for their pulp and paper industry, which is heavily …
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In the European Union, energy markets are increasingly being liberalized. A case in point is the European natural gas industry. The general expectation is that more competition will lead to lower prices and higher volumes, and hence higher welfare. This paper indicates that this might not happen...
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An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research …. We show that there is a high correlation of efficiency values between the estimations using these indicators; however …
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the efficiency of institutions worldwide, the problem concerning the availability of internationally standardized data …. We calculate efficiency scores for more than 4,800 universities and other research-focused institutions worldwide … America or Europe. The results of the study show that institutions in the Pacific region have the highest average efficiency …
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equilibrium price effects, we estimate efficiency gains from time-varying price schedules that better align price with cost. We have …-time pricing with price ceilings can capture most potential efficiency gains. …
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