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LNG in the Northwestern Coast of Mexico: Impact on Prices of Natural Gas in Both Sides of the US-Mexico Border

Meritet, Sophie; Rosellon, Juan; Elizalde, Alberto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper studies the possible impacts of LNG projects on natural gas prices in both sides of the US-Mexico border in California. In California, gas prices are high and the demand is expected to grow. Several projects of LNG facilities have been proposed and have to cope with public opinions...

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The U.S. Shale Gas Revolution and Its Effect on International Gas Markets

Aruga, Kentaka - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper investigated whether the effect of the shale gas revolution on the U.S. gas market is still a domestic phenomenon or this revolution is influencing the global natural gas market. We used the Bai-Perron test to identify the break date related to the shale gas revolution and tested the...

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Measuring Productivity Gains from Deregulation of the Japanese Urban Gas Industry

Tanaka, Kenta; Managi, Shunsuke - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The Japanese government initiated a series of regulatory reforms in the mid-1990s. The Japanese urban gas industry consists of various sized private and non-private firms. Numerous previous studies find that deregulation leads to productivity improvements. We extend the literature by analyzing...

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Storage and Security of Supply in the Medium Run

Chaton, Corinne; Creti, Anna; Villeneuve, Bertrand - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper analyzes the role of private storage in a market for a commodity (e.g. natural gas) whose supply is subject to the threat of an irreversible disruption. We focus on the medium term in which seasonality of demand and exhaustibility can be neglected. We characterize the price and...

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Macroeconomic Effects of a Low-Carbon Electricity Transition in Kenya and Ghana : An Exploratory Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis

Willenbockel, Dirk - 2019

The present study applies purpose-built dynamic computable general equilibrium models for Ghana and Kenya with a …

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The poverty and inequality nexus in Ghana: a decomposition analysis of household expenditure components

Novignon, Jacob; Nonvignon, Justice; Mussa, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

in Ghana. Using micro data from the sixth round of the Ghana Living Standards Survey conducted in 2012/2013, marginal …, reducing within-component inequality significantly reduces overall poverty and inequality in Ghana, compared to between … tax policies (such as Value Added Tax and National Health Insurance Levy in the case of Ghana) that provide exemptions for …

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Response of rice yields in Ghana: some prescriptions for future rice policy

Boansi, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

analyzed the response of rice yields in Ghana to major internal and external factors which have direct and indirect effects on …

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Spatial Price Transmission in the Regional Maize Markets in Ghana

Ankamah-Yeboah, Isaac - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Policy makers have been striving through market reforms to ensure proper functioning of agricultural markets and marketing channels to ensure food security, realize welfare impacts from policies, bridge the gap between the affluent and deprived regions. The core of which is due to regional...

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Joint Adoption of Safer Irrigation Technologies under Uncertainty: Evidence from Ghana

Owusu, Victor; Abdulai, Awudu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

technologies. The study employed a cross-sectional data on urban and periurban vegetable farmers in Kumasi of Ghana and examines …

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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 … unrestricted model through Autometrics is used to estimate the determinants of renewable energy demand in Ghana. The results …

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