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A tool is presented to quantify the risks of geothermal projects, the Geothermal Probabilistic Cost Model (GPCM). The GPCM model is used to evaluate a geothermal reservoir for a binary-cycle electric plant at Heber, California. Three institutional aspects of the geothermal risk which can shift...
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suggests that state policy will continue to drive even faster growth over the next decade. Federal policy has also played a … schedule) and a business energy investment tax credit (ITC). Since the signing of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct) on …
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This paper examines the impact of declines in adult mortality on growth in an overlapping generations model. With … public education and imperfect annuity markets, a decline in mortality affects growth through three channels. First, it … bequests, lowers investment, and thereby lowers the rate of physical capital accumulation. Third, it may lead the median voter …
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the AFFFM are datasets for plantation establishment and maintenance costs, growth rates and potential timber products of a …
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's investments drive earnings growth and, hence, market value of equity. Technologies develop and flourish or die out through the … combined investment decisions of those firms doing the inventing, and those firms that adopt those inventions, and thereby help … to spread (or diffuse) the innovations into wider use. Hence, technology is important for the investment decisions of all …
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This research investigates the impact of trade openness and foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic growth. Using a … also finds evidence that FDI has significant effects on economic growth. While international trade does not significantly … influence economic growth, human capital does. The presence of a democratic government also brings positive effects to growth in …
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This paper examines the causal links between productivity growth and two price series given by domestic inflation and … shows that domestic inflation has a small but adverse effect on mining productivity growth, thus providing some empirical … stochastic translog cost frontier to generate improved estimates of total factor productivity (TFP) growth. The results indicate …
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