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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
case for possible application to the electricity market and discusses the implications of the results. In the literature … and demand response in the power market and their relationships. It enhances demand response in the electricity market …The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated …
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Labor and Financial Market Interactions: The Case of Labor Income Risk and Car Insurance in the UK 1969-95
Koeniger, Winfried - 2001
liberal financial market. ? the effects seem to be important on the macro level in the 70s whereas they become negligible in …
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A suggested method for the measurement of world leading research: (illustrated with data on economics)
Oswald, Andrew J. - 2009
Countries often spend billions on university research. There is growing interest in how to assess whether that money is well spent. Is there an objective way to assess the quality of a nation's world-leading science? I attempt to suggest a method, and illustrate it with modern data on economics....
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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010
Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...
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The impact of union dissolution on moving distances and destinations in the UK
Feijten, Peteke; van Ham, Maarten - 2011
The number of people who have ever experienced a divorce, or a split up of a non-marital union, is rising every year. It is well known that union dissolution has a disruptive effect on the housing careers of those involved, often leading to downward moves on the housing ladder. Much less is...
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Work hours constraints and health
Bell, David; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2011
The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important not only at the individual level but also for governmental formation of work time policy. Our study investigates this question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between...
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Is graduate under-employment persistent? Evidence from the United Kingdom
Mosca, Irene; Wright, Robert E. - 2011
This paper examines the persistence of under-employment amongst UK higher education graduates. For the cohort of individuals who graduated in 2002/3, micro-data collected by the Higher Education Statistical Agency, are used to calculate the rates of non-graduate job employment 6 months and 42...
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Public-Private Entanglement: Entrepreneurship in a Hybrid Political Order, the Case of Lebanon
Stel, Nora; Naudé, Wim - 2013
' access to electricity in Lebanon. Using quantitative and qualitative methods we find that political connections significantly … entrepreneurs engage in bribery, and who obtain government contracts alleviate electricity problems and perform better. …
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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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Energy Consumption and Health Outcomes in Africa
BenYoussef, Adel; Lannes, Laurence; Rault, Christophe; … - 2016
between energy consumption and health indicators in Nigeria. In particular, our findings suggest that electricity consumption …
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