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Market Design for Trading Commoditized Renewable Energy
Heshmati, Almas; Abolhosseini, Shahrouz - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398294
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Market Design for Trading Commoditized Renewable Energy
Heshmati, Almas; Abolhosseini, Shahrouz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886132
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Bribes vs. Taxes: Market Structure and Incentives
Amodio, Francesco; Choi, Jieun; De Giorgi, Giacomo; … - 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/10011931633
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322481
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A "Healthy Immigrant Effect" or a "Sick Immigrant Effect"? Selection and Policies Matter
Constant, Amelie F.; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, … - 2015
data we are able to compare Israel and Europe that have fundamentally different migration policies. Israel has virtually … natives; b) immigrants to Europe have better health than natives upon arrival and up to eleven years since arrival in the host …
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479335
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Micro and macro determinants of health: Older immigrants in Europe
Constant, Amelie F.; García-Muñoz, Teresa M.; Neuman, … - 2014
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/10010481648
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Calamities, Common Interests, Shared Identity: What Shapes Altruism and Reciprocity?
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Cabrales, Antonio; Dolls, Mathias; … - 2021
We conduct a large-scale survey experiment in nine European countries to study how priming a major crisis (COVID-19), common economic interests, and a shared identity influences altruism, reciprocity and trust of EU citizens. We find that priming the COVID-19 pandemic increases altruism and...
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Building Trust in Rural Producer Organizations in Senegal: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Bernard, Tanguy; Frölich, Markus; Landmann, Andreas; … - 2015
Trust is crucial for successful collective action. A prime example is collective commercialization of agricultural produce through producer organizations. We conduct a cluster-randomized controlled trial in rural Senegal in which we vary the number and the type of smallholder farmers - members...
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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; Liverpool-Tasie, Saweda; Mason, Nicole; … - 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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