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Industrial demand response: How network tariffs and regulation do (not) impact flexibility provision in electricity markets and reserves
Richstein, Jörn C.; Hosseinioun, Seyed Saeed - 2020
Incentives for industrial loads to provide demand response on day-ahead and reserve markets are affected both by network tariffs, as well as regulations on the provision of flexibility in different markets. This paper uses a numerical model of the chlor-alkali process with a storable...
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Decentralized energy: How 100% renewable energy regions affect households' energy saving behavior
De Palma, Alessandro; Faillo, Marco; Gabriele, Roberto - 2023
This paper focuses on decentralized energy in Germany and how households' environmental behavior in terms of energy … consumption is shaped in these contexts. It sets out to gain a more precise understanding of whether decentralized energy … mitigate global warming. This study would be one of the first to investigate the effect of living in 100% Renewable Energy …
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A market screening model for price inconstancies: Empirical evidence from German electricity markets
von Blanckenburg, Korbinian; Hanfeld, Marc; Kholodilin, … - 2013
apply the model to the German electricity market. According to our results, between 2001 and 2011 energy suppliers appear to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292671
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What Causes Cross-industry Differences of Technical Efficiency? An Empirical Investigation
Fritsch, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - 2004
Using micro-level panel data of about 35,000 firms from the German Cost Structure Census, we analyze the differences of technical efficiency across industries. Technical efficiency is estimated by firms? fixed effects. One striking result is that the distribution of technical efficiency across...
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What drives the productive efficiency of a firm? The importance of industry, location, R&D, and size
Badunenko, Oleg; Fritsch, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - 2008
This paper investigates the factors that explain the level and dynamics of manufacturing firm productive efficiency. In our empirical analysis, we use a unique sample of about 39,000 firms in 256 industries from the German Cost Structure Census over the years 1992-2005. We estimate the...
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Mergers & acquisitions and innovation performance in the telecommunications equipment industry
Gantumur, Tseveen; Stephan, Andreas - 2007
The telecommunications in the 1990s witnessed an enormous worldwide round of Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A). This paper examines the innovation determinants of M&A activity and the consequences of M&A transactions on the technological potential and the innovation performance. We examine the...
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The influence of collusion on price changes: New evidence from major cartel cases
von Blanckenburg, Korbinian; Geist, Alexander; … - 2010
In this paper, we compare the distribution of price changes between collusive and noncollusive periods for ten major cartels. The first moments focus on previous research. We extend the discussion to the third (skewness) and fourth (kurtosis) moments. However, none of the above descriptive...
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New Firm Formation by Industry over Space and Time: A Multi-Level Analysis
Fritsch, Michael; Falck, Oliver - 2003
We apply a multi-level approach to analyze simultaneously the effects of three groups of determinants on new firm formation: industry, location and change over time. The data is for West Germany and covers the 1983-97 period. Our analysis indicates that innovation activities and the...
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B2C eCommerce strategy and market structure : the survey based approach
Sint, Peter Paul; Schmitz, Stefan W. - 2003
This paper follows two objectives: (i) It demonstrates the merits of the survey based approach to B2C eCommerce characteristics and company strategy, and (ii) it presents empirical evidence of the crucial importance of size and marketing investment in B2C eCommerce markets. It presents...
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Vertical Integration and Market Foreclosure with Convex Downstream Costs
Baake, Pio; Kamecke, Ulrich; Normann, Hans-Theo - 2001
In a framework with an upstream monopoly and a downstream duopoly, we analyze the impact of convex costs on the downstream level. In contrast to the case of constant marginal costs, vertical integration does not imply complete market foreclosure. While the non-integrated downstream firm receives...
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