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market. After characterizing the general demand models, it reviews consumer baseline based on which further study the demand … and demand response in the power market and their relationships. It enhances demand response in the electricity market …. The objective is through a combination of demand and supply side managements to reduce demand through different demand …
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Typically, when two people decide to become parents, they procreate by copulation and produce a child. What do people do if, for some reason, they can't produce their own children but want to be parents? Today, a prospective parent can go to the web, drop a vial of sperm from a donor with...
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We study price-setting behavior in German firm-level survey data to infer the relative importance of supply and demand … during the Covid-19 pandemic. Supply and demand forces coexist, but demand shortages dominate in the short run. A reported … percentage points. These results imply a role for aggregate demand stabilization policy to buffer the economic consequences of …
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due to the burning of bituminous coal for heat. We estimate the effects of this bituminous coal consumption on mortality … rates in the U.S. during the mid-20th century. Coal consumption varied considerably during the 20th century due to coal … of confounding factors, we use a triple-differences identification strategy that relies on variation in coal consumption …
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There has been a widespread displacement of coal by natural gas as space heating and cooking technology in Turkey in …
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This paper estimates the effect of coal-fired power plants on infant mortality in India. We find that a one GW increase … in coal-fired capacity corresponds to a 14% increase in infant mortality rates in districts near versus far from the … plant site. This effect is 2-3 times larger than estimates from the developed world. Our effects are larger for: (1) older …
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Market productivity is often greater, and leisure and other household activities more enjoyable, when people perform … affect the timing of market work and sleep, the two most time-consuming activities people undertake. These impacts do not … norms that affect everyone. -- time use ; labor supply ; synchronous activities ; time zones …
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We utilize the analytical construct of a stochastic supply function to provide an aggregate representation of a finite … collection of standard deterministic supply functions. We introduce a consistency postulate for a stochastic supply function that … may be satisfied even if no underlying deterministic supply function is rationalizable in terms of profit maximization …
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recent increase in natural gas supply led to displacement of coal-fired electricity by cleaner natural gas-fired generation …. Using detailed spatial panel data comprising the near universe of US power plants, we find that coal generation decreased by …
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apply the model to the archetypical fossil industry - coal mining. Based on the universe of German coal employment … security in coal drive welfare costs. We distinguish welfare costs by age, education and business cycle. High-educated workers … aged 31-49 face highest losses. Based on a detailed demographic projection, we estimate that advancing coal exit from 2038 …
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