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Distribution of responsibility, ability and competition
Graafland, J.J. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
production and consumption. Responsibility is related to ability and ability depends on welfare. An increase in competition … ability, to acknowledge social values. Therefore, an increase in competition on consumer markets shifts the balance in … in competition on investor markets will shift the balance in an opposite direction. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008636487
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EMERGENCE, ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATIONS, AND DECLINE OF THE PIQUETERO MOVEMENT: A COMPARATIVE INSTITUTIONAL EXPLANATION
PONCE, ALDO - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper offers an institutional explanation for the growth, organizational transformations, and decline of the piquetero social movement in Argentina, developed from a comparative perspective based on Latin America. I analyze which institutional arrangements, political actors, and...
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Transition towards renewable energy supply in Croatia
Vidakovic, Neven - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper analyses the current state of the renewable energy in Croatia and proposes what can be done to speed up the process of transition towards the increase in consumption of renewable energy in Croatia. The process of transition is analyzed from the perspective of three main participants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011268347
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China’s Coal Chemical Industry: In the View of Governance Challenges
Xu, Xiaoran; Wang, Dong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper examines the China’s coal chemical strategy. As a part of national energy strategy, China’s coal chemical industry induces conflicts on technical level, economic level and policy level. The analysis of this paper is under the policy framework and discusses the causes and effects...
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Estimating the value of additional wind and transmission capacity in the rocky mountain west
Godby, Robert; Torell, Greg; Coupal, Roger - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The expansion of wind-generation in the United States poses significant challenges to policy-makers, particularly because wind’s intermittency and unpredictability can exacerbate problems of congestion on a transmission constrained grid. Understanding these issues is necessary if optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259391
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The effect of electricity consumption from renewable sources on countries’ economic growth levels: Evidence from advanced, emerging and developing economies
Halkos, George; Tzeremes, Nickolaos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper uses a sample of 36 countries for the time period 1990-2011 in order to examine the relationship between countries’ electricity consumption from renewable sources and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) levels. Several nonparametric techniques are applied to investigate the effect of...
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A Solar-Home Rental Business Model: Capturing Synergies from Solar Energy and Single Family Rental Properties
Lutey, Robert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
competition and efficiencies in balance-of-system costs. Together, these two trends offer the prospect of an integrated “solar …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260145
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Innovation and Sustainable Development: The Question of Energy Efficiency
Dhaoui, Elwardi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This article aims to examine the conditions in which technological innovation can foster and promote sustainable development. It takes into account all forms of technological innovation potential for sustainable development: process innovations, product innovations, organizational innovations,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260667
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Specifying An Efficient Renewable Energy Feed-in Tariff
Farrell, Niall; Devine, Mel; Lee, William; Gleeson, James; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper derives efficient pricing formulae for renewable energy Feed-in Tariff (FiT) designs that incorporate exposure to uncertain market prices by using option pricing theory. Such FiT designs are presented as a means to delineate market price risk amongst investors and policymakers when...
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Modelling Renewable Energy Economy in Ghana with Autometrics
Ackah, Ishmael; Asomani, Mcomari - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Renewable energy consumption has been identified as a potential solution to the intermittent power supply in Ghana. Recently, a Renewable Energy Act has been passed which has a target of 10% of renewable energy component in Ghana’s energy mix by 2020. Whilst effort is been made to enhance...
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