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Brexit: situation and economic consequences
Buesa Olavarrieta, Alejandro; García Esteban, Coral; …
Artículo de revista ; The effective departure of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU) opens up a new period of relations between the two areas. The current health crisis limits economic policies’ room for manoeuvre to accommodate the costs of transitioning to a new economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012525333
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Imperfect competition in product markets and labor markets, general equilibrium and unemployment
Schniewind, Achim - 2000
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476214
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Non-Tariff Barriers and the Telecommunications Sector
Stephenson, Sherry M. - 2002
This paper discusses the nature, importance, and measurement of non-tariff barriers (NTBs) in services trade with particular reference to telecommunications services. It is shown that although more effectively addressed for the telecom sector at the multilateral level than for other service...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442370
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Quantification of Sanitary, Phytosanitary, and Technical Barriers to Trade for Trade Policy Analysis
Beghin, John C.; Bureau, Jean-Christophe - 2001
This paper presents promising methodologies for modeling and quantifying nontariff barriers (NTB) to trade in the agricultural and food sectors. We limit the analysis to sanitary, phytosanitary, and technical regulations that can have an impact on trade and to methods that provide some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443051
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Technical Barriers to Trade in the European Union : Importance for the New EU Members. An Assessment for Agricultural and Food Products
Chevassus-Lozza, Emmanuelle; Majkovic, Darja; … - 2005
This paper aims to assess the role of non-tariff barriers (NTBs) for new member states (NMSs) exports in the agri-food sector, in the period just before the EU accession actually stepped into force. The assessment is based on a detailed sectoral gravity model, which was enhanced with inclusion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443873
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Tariff-based analysis of commercial building electricityprices
Coughlin, Katie M.; Bolduc, Chris A.; Rosenquist, Greg J.; … - 2008
This paper presents the results of a survey and analysis ofelectricity tariffs and marginal electricity prices for … 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
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Participation of the Nuclear Power Plants in the New Brazilian Electric Energy Market
Mathias, S.G. - 2008
March 15,2004. The main overall goals of this new regulation are: to allow the lowest possible tariffs for end users, while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435556
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Real Time Pricing as a Default or Optional Service for C&ICustomers: A Comparative Analysis of Eight Case Studies
Barbose, Galen; Goldman, Charles; Bharvirkar, Ranjit; … - 2008
utility commissions (PUC) and utilities have considered implementing dynamic pricing tariffs, such as real-time pricing (RTP … is appropriate for utilities to offer a range of dynamic pricing tariffs and DR programs, or just ''plain vanilla … tariffs, three basic implementation issues require attention. First, should it be a default or optional tariff, and for which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435658
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Customer Strategies for Responding to Day-Ahead Market HourlyElectricity Pricing
Goldman, Chuck; Hopper, Nicole; Bharvirkar, Ranjit; … - 2008
Real-time pricing (RTP) has been advocated as an economically efficient means to send price signals to customers to promote demand response (DR) (Borenstein 2002, Borenstein 2005, Ruff 2002). However, limited information exists that can be used to judge how effectively RTP actually induces DR,...
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A Survey of Utility Experience with Real Time Pricing
Barbose, Galen; Goldman, Charles; Neenan, Bernie - 2008
While more than 70 utilities in the U.S. have offered voluntary RTP tariffs on either a pilot or permanent basis, most … stimulate price responsive demand, we conducted a survey of 43 voluntary RTP tariffs offered in 2003. The survey involved …
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