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Electricity Restructuring: What Has Worked, What Has Not, and What is Next
Lien, Jeff - 2008
restructuring, and consider areas where further reform may be warranted. It appears that market restructuring is now producing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012056304
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Restructuring, Ownership and Efficiency: The Case of Labor in Electricity Generation
Shanefelter, Jennifer K. - 2008
restructuring in the electricity generation industry. As numerous industries and economies have undergone this sort of transition to … tighter regulation. Using data from the electricity industry, this analysis considers the total effect of restructuring on one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012056312
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Liberalized retail electricity markets: What we have learned after two decades of experience?
Poudineh, Rahmatallah - 2019
The retail electricity market, as the key link between end users and the wider electricity system, play a significant … system and public policy costs. Lack of consumer engagement has been one of the biggest weaknesses of retail electricity … markets. The nature of issues that impede engagement – such as complexity of the market and electricity tariffs, transaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012663559
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The Impact of the Internet on Retail Competition: Evidence from Technological Differences in Internet Access
Gebhardt, Georg - 2010
Does the internet increase competition? To address this question, I exploit two institutional details unique to Germany: (1) Some municipalities received glass fibre cables that cannot be upgraded to DSL; I use these municipalities as a treatment group with reduced online competition. (2) German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333892
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Estimating Level Effects In Diffusion Of A New Technology: Barcode Scanning At The Checkout Counter
Beck, Jonathan; Grajek, Michał; Wey, Christian - 2007
Cross-country or cross-industry studies of technology diffusion typically estimate how independent factors affect diffusion speed or timing, often based on a two-stage approach. In many applications, however, countries (industries) differ most in the saturation level of diffusion. In a novel,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352082
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Hypermarket Competition and the Diffusion of Retail Checkout Barcode Scanning
Beck, Jonathan; Grajek, Michał; Wey, Christian - 2005
This paper presents a set of panel data to study the diffusion of retail checkout barcode scanning in ten European countries over the period 1981-1996. Estimates from a standard diffusion model suggest that countries differ most in the long-run diffusion level of barcode scanning and less in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274031
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Hypermarket competition and the diffusion of retail checkout barcode scanning
Beck, Jonathan; Grajek, Michał; Wey, Christian - 2005
This paper presents a set of panel data to study the diffusion of retail checkout barcode scanning in ten European countries over the period 1981-1996. Estimates from a standard diffusion model suggest that countries differ most in the long-run diffusion level of barcode scanning and less in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278025
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Does AIDS-Related Mortality Reduce Per-Capita Household Income? Evidence from Rural Zambia
Omar Mahmoud, Toman; Thiele, Rainer - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301529
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The Information Value of Central School Exams
Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
The central vs. local nature of high-school exit exam systems can have important repercussions on the labor market. By increasing the informational content of grades, central exams may improve the sorting of students by productivity. To test this, we exploit the unique German setting where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307069
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The Information Value of Central School Exams
Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
The central vs. local nature of high-school exit exam systems can have important repercussions on the labor market. By increasing the informational content of grades, central exams may improve the sorting of students by productivity. To test this, we exploit the unique German setting where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307322