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In an unregulated electricity generation market, the degree to which generators in" different locations compete with one another depends on the capacity to transmit electricity" between the locations. We study the impact of transmission capacity on competition among" generators. We show that...
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India, seeking to reduce electricity shortages, set up a new power market, in which transmission constraints sharply limit trade between regions. I use confidential bidding data to estimate the costs of power supply and simulate market outcomes with more transmission capacity. I find that the...
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We examine the performance attributes of a merchant transmission investment framework that relies on market driven' transmission investment to provide the infrastructure to support competitive wholesale markets for electricity. Under a stringent set of assumptions, the merchant investment model...
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(namely, from Cyprus and British Virgin Islands) across Russia and compare them with the benchmark group of genuine foreign …
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Cyprus, Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain, ranging from roughly 0.5% (Ireland) to 43% (Greece) of 2011 output during the …
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. Total external debt (public and private) and domestic credit are also included through 2013. This combination gives a broad …
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In many countries, bankruptcy is associated with low recovery by creditors. We develop a model of corporate credit … markets in such an environment. Corporate credit is provided by either a bond market or risk-averse banks. Restructuring of …
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We document cross-individual variation in U.S. credit card borrowing costs (APRs) that is large enough to explain … explain APR differences comparable to moving someone from the worst credit score decile to the best …
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In an earlier paper, we showed that integrated individual accounts, allowing individuals to borrow against future pensions when they are unemployed, can be welfare increasing, because it allows increased inter-temporal consumption smoothing without attenuating incentives to search. Here, we...
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We study a dynamic economy where credit is limited by insufficient collateral and, as a result, investment and output … are too low. In this environment, changes in investor sentiment or market expectations can give rise to credit bubbles …, that is, expansions in credit that are backed not by expectations of future profits (i.e. fundamental collateral), but …
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