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Ahuachapan geothermal project: a technical and economic assessment
Bloomster, C.H.; DiPippo; Kuwada, J.T.; Russell, B.F. - 2007
Theeconomic and technical factors involved in using geothermal energy at Ahuachapan are examined. The experience at Ahuachapan is evaluated in relation to conditions prevailing in El Salvador and to conditions in the U.S. technical characteristics considered are: geological characteristics, well...
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The Ahuachapan geothermal field, El Salvador: Exploitation model, performance predictions, economic analysis
Ripperda, M.; Bodvarsson, G.S.; Lippmann, M.J.; … - 2007
The Earth Sciences Division of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) is conducting a reservoir evaluation study of the Ahuachapan geothermal field in El Salvador. This work is being performed in cooperation with the Comision Ejecutiva Hidroelectrica del Rio Lempa (CEL) and the Los Alamos National...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437306
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Riding the wave: monetary responses to aid surges in low-income countries
Buffie, Edward; Adam, Christopher S.; O'Connell, Stephen; … - 2006
We focus on the management of highly persistent shocks to aid flows, including HIPC or MDG-related increases in net flows, in the presence of currency substitution by the domestic private sector. Such shocks have beneficent long-run effects, but when currency substitution is high they can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441501
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Currency Substitution and the Demand for Money in Five European Union Countries
Yildirim, Julide - 2003
The high degree of economic integration has led to an increased degree of currency substitution in the EU countries, which could bring instability in national money demand functions while an EU-wide money demand function could be more stable. Currency substitution usually takes the form of cross...
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Reserve Requirements, Currency Substitution, and Seigniorage in the Transition to European Monetary Union
Daniels, Joseph; Van Hoose, David - 1996
This article considers a transition toward European monetary union that combines increased substitution of currencies and greater monetary, financial, and fiscal policy coordination. It explores how such a transition would affect national inflation and interest rates and required reserve ratios...
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Fiscal expansions under flexible exchange rates and in a monetary union: the interplay of biased preferences and pricing-to-market
Pitterle, Ingo - 2005
Wechselkurssystem sowie in einer Währungsunion untersucht. Im Anschluss an eine getrennte Analyse der beiden Wechselkursssysteme wird … fiskalpolitischen Expansion kommt - eine Währungsunion gegenüber einem flexiblen Wechselkurssystem bevorzugen, unabhängig davon, ob die …-Switching- und Terms-of-Trade-Effekte zurückführen, die ausschließlich bei einem flexiblen Wechselkurssystem auftreten. Aufgrund der …
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Exchange Rate Regime and Financing Policies of the Corporate Sector in Small Open Economies.
Berrospide, Jose M. - 2007
risk. Consistent with corporate hedging theory, the case study finds that hedging contributes to smooth companies' earning …
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Modeling International Asset Markets
Alquist, Ron - 2008
The three papers that comprise my dissertation study international asset markets. The first paper “What Do We Learn from the Price of Crude Oil Futures?” shows that, despite their widespread use, oil futures prices are less accurate in the mean-squared error sense than no-change forecasts....
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CAPITAL ACCOUNT LIBERALIZATION AND EXCHANGE RATE REGIME CHOICE, WHAT SCOPE FOR FLEXIBILITY IN TUNISIA?
Sami, Ben Ali Mohamed - 2006
Capital account liberalization and exchange rate regime choice, what scope for flexibility in Tunisia? This study evaluates within a game-theoretic framework the exchange rate regime from a welfare perspective. In a tradable-nontradable goods model framework, Tunisia’s exchange rate regime...
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