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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 …
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A life-cycle theory analysis of French household electricity demand
Belaïd, Fateh; Rault, Christophe; Massié, Camille - 2021
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 …
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Political culture and discrimination in contests
Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitsan, Shemuʾel - 2010
Many economic and political decisions are the outcome of strategic contests for a given prize. The nature of such contests can be determined by a designer who is driven by political considerations with a specific political culture. The main objective of this study is to analyze the effect of...
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Competing with asking prices
Lester, Benjamin; Visschers, Ludo; Wolthoff, Ronald - 2013
In many markets, sellers advertise their good with an asking price. This is a price at which the seller is willing to take his good off the market and trade immediately, though it is understood that a buyer can submit an offer below the asking price and that this offer may be accepted if the...
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Lotteries vs. all-pay auctions in fair and biased contests
Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitsan, Shemuʾel - 2012
The form of contests for a single fixed prize can be determined by a designer who maximizes the contestants' efforts. This paper establishes that, under common knowledge of the two asymmetric contestants' prize valuations, a fair Tullock-type endogenously determined lottery is always superior to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009675128
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Search frictions, competing mechanisms and optimal market segmentation
Cai, Xiaoming; Gautier, Pieter; Wolthoff, Ronald - 2016
In a market in which sellers compete for heterogeneous buyers by posting mechanisms, we analyze how the properties of the meeting technology affect the allocation of buyers to sellers. We show that a separate submarket for each type of buyer is the efficient outcome if and only if meetings are...
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Can job competition prevent hold-ups?
Jansen, Marcel (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Job search with bidder memories
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Menzio, Guido; Smith, Eric - 2009
This paper revisits the no-recall assumption in job search models with take-it-or-leave-it offers. Workers who can recall previously encountered potential employers in order to engage them in Bertrand bidding have a distinct advantage over workers without such attachments. Firms account for this...
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Estimating indirect benefits : fracking, coal and air pollution
Johnsen, Reid; LaRiviere, Jacob; Wolff, Hendrik - 2016
recent increase in natural gas supply led to displacement of coal-fired electricity by cleaner natural gas-fired generation …
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Electrification and educational outcomes in rural Peru
Dasso, Rosamaría; Fernandez, Fernando; Ñopo, Hugo - 2015
increased electricity coverage in rural areas. Using household survey panel data from 2007-2010, we document that: i) girls …
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