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Market Design for Trading Commoditized Renewable Energy
Heshmati, Almas - 2014
Information and communication technology plays an important role in achieving a higher level of energy efficiency. In particular, energy efficiency can be achieved by integrating information technology into electricity networks to enable the interaction between suppliers and customers (smart...
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Bribes vs. Taxes : Market Structure and Incentives
Amodio, Francesco - 2018
Firms in developing countries often avoid paying taxes by making informal payments to tax officials. These bribes may raise the cost of operating a business, and the price charged to consumers. To decrease these costs, we designed a feedback incentive scheme for business tax inspectors that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012914336
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Resource Misallocation in European Firms : The Role of Constraints, Firm Characteristics and Managerial Decisions
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2018
Using a new survey, we show that the dispersion of marginal products across firms in the European Union is about twice as large as that in the United States. Reducing it to the US level would increase EU GDP by more than 30 percent. Alternatively, removing barriers between industries and...
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Is European Entrepreneurship in Crisis?
Naudé, Wim - 2016
to its euro and refugee crises, Europe is suffering from an entrepreneurship crisis. Entrepreneurs are increasingly older …, given that Europe faces rising unemployment, growing numbers of unassimilated migrants, and more pensioners - and all in the … crisis. Demographic changes and institutional shortcomings are thus at the core of the entrepreneurship crisis in Europe …
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Micro and Macro Determinants of Health : Older Immigrants in Europe
Constant, Amelie F. - 2015
We study the health determinants of immigrant men and women over the age of fifty, in Europe, and compare them to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030713
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Informal Workers Across Europe : Evidence from 30 Countries
Hazans, Mihails - 2011
Europe than in the West, except for Ireland, the UK and Austria. Between 2004 and 2009, no cases found when unemployment and … dependent informality rates in a country went up together, suggesting that work without contract is pro-cyclical in Europe … equal. In Southern and Western Europe, immigrants from CEE and FSU feature the highest dependent informality rate, whilst in …
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Strengthening Producer Organizations to Increase Market Access of Smallholder Farmers in Uganda
Vargas Hill, Ruth - 2020
Smallholder agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa is largely exposed to pervasive market failures, translating into missed …
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Smallholders, Market Failures, and Agricultural Production : Evidence from India
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2020
Market completeness has important implications for household behavior. I firmly reject complete markets for smallholders but am unable to do so for non-smallholders. This leads to important differences in production behavior: smallholders reallocate labor across activities less in response to...
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The Extractive Industry's Impact on Economic Growth in SADC Countries
Nhabinde, S. - 2020
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries are rich in natural resources and in most of them their extractive industries extract and export natural resources with little industrial processing. This study analyzes the direct and indirect impacts that the extractive industries in...
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Can Crop Purchase Programs Reduce Poverty and Improve Welfare in Rural Communities? Evidence from the Food Reserve Agency in Zambia
Fung, Winnie - 2015
The last decade has seen a resurgence of parastatal crop marketing institutions in sub-Saharan Africa, many of which cite improving food security and incomes as key goals. However, there is limited empirical evidence on the welfare effects of these programs. This article considers one such...
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