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, reduced air pollution emissions, and reduced greenhouse gas emissions. However, landfills sometimes face conflicting policy … incentives. The theory of technical change shows that the diffusion of a technology or groups of technologies increases slowly in …
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theory at least, restructuring a monopoly generator, and deregulating the product and capacity markets, should lead to lower …, economic theory and the development and adaptation of a suite of economic cost and generation system simulation models to test … simulation models of economic cost and electricity generation systems, coupled with economic theory, to forecast market outcomes …
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In this thesis it is analyzed if promoting product market competition can help to to fight unemployment in Europe. We have used a general equilibrium model in order to study how reducing mark-ups and increasing productivity in one sector affect aggregate unemployment for an exogenously given...
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A Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) is a policy tool that sets a requirement for retail sellers of electricity to provide a minimum portion of their electricity sales from renewable resources. The RPS at state levels has become one of the most important policy incentives for stimulating clean...
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, determine the relative weights of the objectives, recognize tradeoffs, and create an efficient portfolio using Portfolio Theory …
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The RPS has become the most important instrument in United Statesto encourage the generation of electricity through the use of renewable energy.In brief, the RPS is a policy mechanism that requires suppliers of electricity to providea specific percentage of their energy supply from some form of...
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Reserve requirements in electricity markets may get each producer to internalize the cost of grid-wide blackouts it might cause if unable to meet consumer demand. Markets for how such capacity might be procured have been studied. Less examined is how the costs of reserve capacity are covered....
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This dissertation contains three essays. The first and second essays examineintergenerational mobility in earnings in Brazil using a data set spanning three generations. I use data from PNAD{a nationally representative household survey inBrazil. I build a three-generations data set consisting of...
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Die Einführung neuartiger Energietechnologien wird allgemein als der Schlüssel zur Senkung klimaschädlicher Treibhausgase angesehen. Allerdings ist die Abbildung derartiger Technologien in numerischen Modellen zur Simulation und ökonomischen Analyse von energie- und klimaschutzpolitischen...
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