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Decommissioning of coal-based plants in India and its ramifications
Dasgupta, Somit - 2024
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), the Indian power sector is the highest emitter of carbon dioxide … hydro power, biomass and nuclear. This energy transition can only happen if one is able to decommission coal-based plants … India to undertake this energy transition easily so as to become net-zero by 2070. …
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"Just transition" in India and fiscal stance: Analyzing the tax buoyancy of the extractive sector
Chakraborty, Lekha; Thomas, Emmanuel - 2024
Against the backdrop of fiscal transition concomitant to energy transition policies with climate change commitments …
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Digitalization for Energy Access in Sub-Saharan Africa : Challenges, Opportunities and Potential Business Models
Mazzoni, Davide - 2019
. This paper gives an overview on the actual state of energy access in Sub-Saharan Africa and the current technologies used … and reliable energy, by acting on the electrification planning, regulations, business environment, distribution channels …
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Bargaining and Strategic Discrimination
Björnerstedt, Jonas; Westermark, Andreas - 2006
In bargaining between two sellers and one buyer on prices and quantities, strategic inefficiencies arise. By reallocating between the last agreement and the first, the buyer can increase it's share of the surplus. With symmetric sellers producing substitutes, the quantities in the first...
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Firm dynamics and the minimum wage: A putty-clay approach
Aaronson, Daniel; French, Eric; Sorkin, Isaac - 2013
We document two new facts about the market-level response to minimum wage hikes: firm exit and entry both rise. These results pose a puzzle: canonical models of firm dynamics predict that exit rises but that entry falls. We develop a model of firm dynamics based on putty-clay technology and show...
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Driving to drink: Tax avoidance along the Washington-Oregon border
LoPiccalo, K. - 2016
This paper uses store-level data on consumer liquor revenues and volume sales in Oregon to estimate the effect of state tax differentials on consumer demand. Liquor privatization in Washington led to higher prices from new taxes. I calculate the impact of tax incidence on tax avoidance using...
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How small are small markets? Location choice and geographical market size for child care services
Pennerstorfer, Astrid; Pennerstorfer, Dieter - 2018
In this article we propose an innovative way of delineating geographical markets based on easily accessible data. We apply this concept for the day care industry and investigate providers' location choices relative to local market characteristics to evaluate the widespread presumption that local...
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Success of firm strategies in e-commerce
Hackl, Franz; Hölzl-Leitner, Michael; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2018
The choice of an appropriate e-commerce strategy is crucial for the survival of online stores in B2C e-commerce business. We use a comprehensive data set from the Austrian price search engine geizhals.at to identify successful e-commerce strategies. An e-commerce strategy is a set of choices...
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Pricing better
Ray, Sourav; Wang, Li; Levy, Daniel; Bergen, Mark - 2019
Electronic shelf label (ESL) is an emerging price display technology around the world. While these new technologies require non-trivial investments by the retailer, they also promise significant operational efficiencies in the form of savings in material, labor and managerial costs. The presumed...
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"The Real Thing:" Nominal Price Rigidity of the Nickel Coke, 1886-1959
Levy, Daniel; Young, Andrew T. - 2004
We report that the price of a 6.5oz Coke was 5¢ from 1886 until 1959. Thus, we are documenting a nominal price rigidity that lasted more than 70 years! The case of Coca-Cola is particularly interesting because during the 70-year period there were substantial changes in the soft drink industry...
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