Dieses Grünbuch möchte als Katalysator wirken, um auf allen Ebenen der europäischen Gesellschaft – sei es auf EU-Gemeinschaftsebene, sei es auf einzelstaatlicher, regionaler oder kommunaler Ebene – auf eine erneuerte Energieeffizienz-Initiative hinzuwirken. ... Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und...

We estimate DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) technical efficiency scores for 1170 Brazilian hospitals included in the SUS (Central Health System) using a recently proposed method that combines bootstrap and jackknife resampling to eliminate the influence of outliers and possible measurement and...

A bootstrap algorithm proposed by Psaradakis (2001) for hypothesis testing in I(1) regressions is discussed and shown to be valid only under the null hypothesis. A simple correction making the procedure valid under both the null and the alternative hypothesis is proposed.

Este trabalho tem como objectivo a realização de uma analise da economia brasileira, em 1960-2000, numa perspectiva sectorial. Os modelos econometricos e o teste de causalidade de Hausman mostram que o incremento da produção manufactureira e necessario para lograr um desenvolvimento...

Wind power generation is essential to reduce the use of fossil resources and, consequently, the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG). Currently, the National Interconnected System (SIN) has about 9971 wind turbines in operation, the sixth largest network in the world ranking, and 80% of Brazilian...