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Privatisation, Restructuring and Regulation: Electricity Supply Industry in Thailand
Sirasoontorn, Puree - 2004
analyses of regulation and privatisation in ESI in Thailand are presented. Regulatory, efficiency and fiscal issues are … for privatisation: efficiency improvement and fiscal benefit.In the efficiency analysis, measures of the technical … efficiency of the electricity generation sector in Thailand are estimated by employing a comparative application of Data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451663
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14.661 Labor Economics I, Fall 2006
Pischke, Jorn-Steffen; Angrist, Joshua - 2006
Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply, labor demand, and human capital. Topics discussed also include wage and employment determination, turnover, search, immigration, unemployment, equalizing differences, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009432547
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Corruption in social services and human development: water, sanitation and electricity sectors
Sohail (Khan), M.; Cavill, Sue - 2010
scarce monetary resources and diminishing a country’s prospects forproviding these crucial utilities for all. This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009461045
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Risk analysis strategies in the water utility sector: an inventory ofapplications for better and more credible decision-making
MacGillivray, Brian H; Hamilton, Paul D; Strutt, J E; … - 2006
Financial pressures, regulatory reform, and sectoral restructuring are requiringwater utilities to move from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009462986
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Patents and Antitrust: Application to Adjacent Markets
Economides, Nicholas; Herbert, WILLIAM N.; Calvo and … - NYU Stern School of Business - 2007
between innovation and economic efficiency.Where a patent holder's invention uses an interface with adjacentproducts, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435110
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New analysis techniques for estimating impacts of federal appliance efficiency standards
McMahon, James E. - 2008
impacts of energy efficiency increases over a sample population of consumers to quantify the proportion of households having … derive the incremental change in retail prices associated with increased manufacturing costs for improving energy efficiency. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435423
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Estimation of the social costs of natural gas
Nieves, L.A.; Lemon, J.R. - 2011
This study determines the extent to which it is possible to develop monetary estimates of the marginal social cost of fuels, using natural gas to test a methodology that could be applied to other fuels. This requires review of previous estimates of both market and nonmarket costs to the extent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435496
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Programmatic risk reduction for large software procurements
Preckshot, G.; Jones, E.; Lawrence, D. - 2009
When making an important decision, program managers must evaluate the risk of each alternative and weigh the trade-offs between one type of risk and another. Program managers are familiar with the concepts of risk analysis and assessment in such areas as human factors, security, and accident...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435521
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China Refrigerator Information Label: Specification Development and Potential Impact
Fridley, David; Fridley, David; Zheng, Nina; Zhou, Nan; … - 2008
efficiency grades for the mandatory energy information label. In the Chinese standards process, the efficiency grades for the … support of METI/IEEJ, collaborated with CNIS to develop the efficiency grades, providing technical input to the process … of the label on China's market, CLASP further provided assistance to CNIS to collect data on both the efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435537
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Tariff-based analysis of commercial building electricityprices
Coughlin, Katie M.; Bolduc, Chris A.; Rosenquist, Greg J.; … - 2008
commercialbuildings. The tariff data come from a survey of 90 utilities and 250tariffs for non-residential customers collected in 2004 as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435538