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energy use, driving pollution trends and prices on commodity markets. Despite huge increases in non-fossil capacity from … consumption has risen faster than energy production, and thereby increased China's dependence on energy imports. China is the …
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electricity is low and net-availability and transport capacity high. Accounting for periods of gas specific pricing is relevant … prevalent in recent years, i.e., we find no evidence of underinvestment in capacity after deregulation. … where relative prices can move between pricing-regimes; markets switch between being decoupled and integrated. Our model …
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and Gas Regulation 715 left a significant degree of discretion to the regulated terminal operators in respect of capacity … allocation mechanisms, UIOLI procedures, and tariffs, enabling the operators to choose different ways of compliance, or apply for …
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providers, this study quantifies effects on local markets' service capacity and prices. We also estimate how increased funding … child, 2) raise average prices by $0.56 per week, mainly driven by a price increase among incumbent providers, and 3) induce …
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This paper focuses on the effect of foreign presence in the services sector on the productivity growth of downstream customers in the manufacturing sector in six EU new member countries in the course of their accession to the European Union. For this purpose, the analysis combines firm-level...
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political competition (electoral volatility, vote switching, and voters’ availability) and their relation to each other. We … argue that electoral volatility and vote switching as indicators of electoral competitiveness tend to misestimate the degree … different parties, i.e. electoral availability. Using data provided by the European Election Studies, we compare availability to …
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, but also by the availability of the transport infrastructure. If transportation capacity is scarce, prices may form in … periods to illustrate the interdependencies between prices, scarce capacity and capacity value. The theoretically optimal …Especially in the short-term, prices in natural gas markets are not exclusively determined by overall supply and demand …
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Consider a market with switching costs that is initially served by a monopolistic incumbent. How can a competitor successfully enter this market? We show that an offer to undercut the incumbent by a fixed margin serves this purpose. This strategy dominates traditional entry where the entrant...
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to play that role, getting the energy prices right is crucial because this sends clear signals to both producers and … consumers of energy. While the overall trend of China’s energy pricing reform since 1984 has been moving away from the prices …, petroleum products, natural gas, electricity and renewable power in China, and provides some analysis of these energy price …
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gas producer prices and trade patterns of radical changes in supply volumes. However, there are significant country …
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