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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 interest among researchers, consumers and producer organizations, managers, regulators and policymakers, This research reviews the growing literature on models used to study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104681
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The Distribution of Earnings Under Monopsonistic/Polistic Competition
Thisse, Jacques-François - 2010
, firms are price-makers and wage-setters. Our setting combines monopolistic and monopsonistic competition, thus encapsulating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139040
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Information and Competition Entry
Ewers, Mara - 2012
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 …
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Which Households Respond to Electricity Peak Pricing Amid High Levels of Electrification?
Garnache, Cloé; Hernaes, Oeystein; Imenes, Anders Gravir - 2022
We examine heterogeneity in Norwegian households' price responses to critical peak pricing (CPP) on electricity consumption, using a large-scale randomized controlled trial (RCT), high-frequency electricity data, and default enrollment. Increasing the grid transmission charge by 4,067%...
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Differential and Distributional Effects of Energy Efficiency Surveys : Evidence from Electricity Consumption
Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2016
Our research investigates the magnitude of the effect of residential energy efficiency audit programs on later household electricity consumption. These programs are designed to increase awareness of household energy consumption with personalized feedback that will eventually lead to behavioral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002449
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Estimation of Productivity in Korean Electric Power Plants : A Semiparametric Smooth Coefficient Model
Heshmati, Almas - 2013
This paper analyzes the impact of load factor, facility and generator types on the productivity of Korean electric power plants. In order to capture important differences in the effect of load policy on power output, we use a semiparametric smooth coefficient (SPSC) model that allows us to model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013084669
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A Life-Cycle Theory Analysis of French Household Electricity Demand
Bélaïd, Fateh; Rault, Christophe; Massié, Camille - 2021
This paper develops a pseudo-panel approach to examine household electricity demand behavior through the household life cycle and its response to income variations to help strengthen the energy policy-making process. Our empirical methodology is based on three rich independent microdata surveys...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013251547
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Consumer Search Costs and Preferences on the Internet
Jolivet, Grégory - 2014
We analyse consumers' search and purchase decisions on an Internet platform. Using a rich dataset on all adverts posted and transactions made on a major French Internet platform (PriceMinister), we show evidence of substantial price dispersion among adverts for the same product. We also show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043670
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Competitiveness and the Gender Gap Among Young Business Professionals
Reuben, Ernesto - 2015
Important gender differences in earnings and career trajectories persist. Particularly, in professions such as business. Gender differences in competitiveness have been proposed as a potential explanation. Using an incentivized measure of competitiveness, this paper investigates whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012820
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Competition and Subsequent Risk-Taking Behaviour : Heterogeneity Across Gender and Outcomes
Filippin, Antonio - 2017
This paper studies if competition affects subsequent risk-taking behaviour by means of a laboratory experiment that … manipulates the degree of competitiveness of the environment under equivalent monetary incentives. We find that competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955025