The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated … the growing literature on models used to study demand, consumer baseline (CBL) and demand response in the electricity … case for possible application to the electricity market and discusses the implications of the results. In the literature …

This paper develops a pseudo-panel approach to examine household electricity demand behavior through the household life … evidence that the income elasticity of French residential electricity demand is 0.22, averaged over our four cohorts of … electricity consumption follows an inverted U-shaped distribution as a function of the age of the household's head. Most notably …

This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory … experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … failure, where competition failure occurs when a subject loses the competition because the opponent holds a higher …

role in keeping politicians accountable once they are in office. Competition plays a relevant role, as the effects are not … limited to the first newspaper entering the market. -- newspapers ; media competition ; turnout ; political selection …

threat of low-wage competition from Central and Eastern European Countries is relatively high. In addition, firms paying … is high. -- minimum wage ; product market competition ; service sector …

present a general equilibrium model of monopolistic competition with two (potentially) asymmetric countries and heterogeneous … ; heterogeneous firms ; international trade ; monopolistic competition ; entry regulation ; strategic trade policy …

fixed costs lower unemployment through the selection effect and increase it through the competition effect analyzed in …