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Survey of models on demand, customer base-line and demand response and their relationships in the power market
Heshmati, Almas - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548648
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Corruption as a barrier to entry : theory and evidence
Campos, Nauro; Estrin, Saul; Proto, Eugenio - 2010
Conventional wisdom depicts corruption as a tax on incumbent firms. This paper challenges this view in two ways. First, by arguing that corruption matters not so much because of the value of the bribe ("tax"), but because of another less studied feature of corruption, namely bribe...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153607
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Identification and inference in regression discontinuity designs with a manipulated running variable
Gerard, François; Rokkanen, Miikka; Rothe, Christoph - 2015
unemployment insurance on unemployment duration in Brazil, where we find strong evidence of manipulation at eligibility cutoffs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428251
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Violence and human capital investments
Koppensteiner, Martin; Menezes, Lvia - 2019
capital investments. Combining a number of large georeferenced administrative datasets from Brazil, we estimate the effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993970
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Informality and macroeconomic fluctuations
Fiess, Norbert M. (contributor); Fugazza, Marco (contributor) - 2008
with and without wage rigidities. The paper then explores time series data from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico to … test for cointegrating relationships corresponding to the patterns predicted by theory. We confirm episodes of expansion of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003722146
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Forecasting time series subject to multiple structural breaks
Pesaran, M. Hashem (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002120362
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Is entrepreneurial success predictable? : An ex-ante analysis of the character-based approach
Caliendo, Marco (contributor);  … - 2007
is slightly better than that of the questionnaire, but lower than expected in theory. Interestingly, for those subgroups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003540253
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Predictability of asset returns and the efficient market hypothesis
Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2010
This paper is concerned with empirical and theoretical basis of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH). The paper begins with an overview of the statistical properties of asset returns at different frequencies (daily, weekly and monthly), and considers the evidence on return predictability, risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003985756
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How prediction markets can save event studies
Snowberg, Erik; Wolfers, Justin; Zitzewitz, Eric - 2011
This review paper articulates the relationship between prediction market data and event studies, with a special focus on applications in political economy. Event studies have been used to address a variety of political economy questions - from the economic effects of party control of government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009238627
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Prediction markets for economic forecasting
Snowberg, Erik; Wolfers, Justin; Zitzewitz, Eric - 2012
Prediction markets - markets used to forecast future events - have been used to accurately forecast the outcome of political contests, sporting events, and, occasionally, economic outcomes. This chapter summarizes the latest research on prediction markets in order to further their utilization by...
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