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. Electricity distribution is the canonical example of a natural monopoly. Randomized price offers show that demand for electricity …
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India, seeking to reduce electricity shortages, set up a new power market, in which transmission constraints sharply …
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We estimate the effects of electricity shortages on Indian manufacturers, instrumenting with supply shifts from … hydroelectric power availability. We estimate that India's average reported level of shortages reduces the average plant's revenues … interruptible retail electricity contracts could substantially reduce the impact of shortages …
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set from India, we estimate key price and expenditure elasticities and supply-side parameters for the fluoroquinolones sub … fluoroquinolone molecules we study been under patent in India as they were in the U.S. at the time. Our results suggest that concerns …
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reflects both the high pre-existing tax on petrol fuel and the high own-price elasticities of fuel demand in India. A tax on …
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, considers India's experience with fiscal (responsibility) rules during the past decade. After reviewing the basic facts … concerning public debt and deficits in India, the background and basic arithmetic of the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget …
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To isolate the impact of access to electricity on local economies, we examine the impact of the Rural Electrification …
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In Sub-Saharan Africa, there are active debates about whether increases in energy access should be driven by investments in electric grid infrastructure or small-scale “home solar” systems (e.g., solar lanterns and solar home systems). We summarize the results of a household electrical...
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While time-varying retail electricity pricing is very popular with economists, that support is not matched among … electricity pricing -- critical-peak pricing -- and suggest how it might be designed to more accurately match retail price spikes …
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to self generate electricity, to purchase intermediate goods that it used to produce directly, or to improve its …-growing demand coupled with regulated electricity prices led to blackouts that varied in degree over location and time. Our data …. We estimate the losses in productivity due to factor-neutral and factor-biased effects of electricity scarcity. Our …
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