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Regulation and Political Costs in the Oil and Gas Industry: An Investigation of Discretion in Reporting Earnings and Oil and Gas Reserves Estimates
Kurdi, Ammr - 2010
This study investigates the use of discretion by oil and gas companies in reporting financial performance and oil and gas reserve estimates during times of high political scrutiny resulting from increases in energy prices. Hypotheses tested in prior literature state that companies facing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475002
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Deregulation-restructuring: Evidence for individual industries
Costello, K.W.; Graniere, R.J. - 2008
econometric analysis that attempt to separate the effects of deregulation from other factors in explaining changes in an industry …, such as deregulation, on an industry`s performance. For example, at the same time that the United Kingdom privatized its … that attempt to measure the effect of deregulation per se for a specific industry. This report highlights major outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436339
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The Impact of Weather Forecasts on Day-Ahead Power Prices
Levin, Noah - 2011
1. Introduction Power industry deregulation and electricity market restructuring, which began in Chile in the 1980s and … Transmission Organizations (RTO) and the development of competitive wholesale power markets. Deregulation also led to the creation … Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and markets operated by ISOs and RTOs. From the start, deregulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468740
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Network effects, compatibility, and adoption of standards
Grajek, Michał - 2005
standard and international trade. The estimation results allow us to formulate some interesting policy conclusions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467122
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Asymmetrische Effekte der Geldpolitik auf die Industrie in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland - eine Untersuchung auf Branchenebene
Hock, Thorsten - 2003
Die Arbeit setzt sich mit Unterschieden des geldpolitischen Transmissionsprozesses im Verarbeitenden Gewerbe der Bundesrepublik Deutschland auseinander. Dazu wird der Sektor nach der Systematik der BACH-Datenbank der europäischen Kommission in 10 Branchen eingeteilt. An eine kurze Betrachtung...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009433722
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Foreign criteria and programs
Swinth, K.L.; Thompson, I.M.G. - 2008
The concept of measurement quality assurance (MQA) as embodied in National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) programs is not generally used within European programs for testing or accreditation. Although the essential elements of quality control and quality assurance are in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437201
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The impact of plant-level resource reallocations and technical progress on U.S. macroeconomic growth.
Petrin, Amil; White, T. Kirk; Reiter, Jerome P. - 2011
reallocations and plant-level technical efficiency changes while allowing in the estimation for 459 different production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429432
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A two-step estimator for a spatial lag model of counts: Theory, small sample performance and an application.
Lambert, Dayton M.; Brown, Jason P.; Florax, Raymond J.G.M. - 2010
Several spatial econometric approaches are available to model spatially correlated disturbances in count models, but there are at present no structurally consistent count models incorporating spatial lag autocorrelation. A two-step, limited information maximum likelihood estimator is proposed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429435
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The impact of forest service litigation success on administrative appeals of proposed fuels reduction actions.
Laband, David N.; Hussain, Anwar; González-Cabán, … - 2008
In this paper, we explore empirically whether the USDA Forest Service's litigation success rate in each Forest Service region helps explain the persistent regional effects noted by Laband et al. (Laband, D.N., González-Cabán, A., and Hussain, A. (2006). “Factors That Influence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429454
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Estimating the quadratic mean diameter of fine woody debris for forest type groups of the United States.
Woodall, Christopher W.; Monleon, Vicente J. - 2009
technique known as the graphical estimation (GE) method for estimating FWD QMDs for major forest types across the United States …. Results indicate that the GE method, along with adaptations proposed in this study, allows for rapid estimation of FWD QMDs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429473