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Export-Supporting FDI
Krautheim, Sebastian - 2009
Wholesale and retail trade affiliates owned by parent firms in manufacturing account for a considerable fraction of overall affiliate sales. Although quantitatively important, this Export-Supporting FDI (ESFDI) activity has received little attention in the literature. This paper includes ESFDI...
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Unilateral Market Power in Wholesale Electricity Markets
Wolak, Frank A. - In: CESifo DICE Report 04 (2006) 2, pp. 10-15
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Willingness to Pay for Agricultural Environmental Safety: Evidence from a Survey of Milan, Italy, Residents
Travisi, Chiara M.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2004
The widespread use of pesticides in agriculture provides a particularly complex pattern of multidimensional negative side-effects, ranging from food safety related effects to the deterioration of farmland ecosystems. The assessment of the economic implications of such negative processes is...
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Willingness to pay for Agricultural Environmental Safety
Travisi, Chiara M.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2004
The widespread use of pesticides in agriculture provides a particularly complex pattern of multidimensionalnegative side-effects, ranging from food safety related effects to the deterioratian of farmland ecosystems.The assessment of the economic implications of such negative processes is fraught...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325349
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Task Force: Nahrungsmittel in China - Food security- und Food safety-Problematik in China
Löhr, Susanne (contributor); Trappel, René (contributor) - 2011
mit Nahrungsmitteln in China nach - von der Produktion über den Konsum bis hin zur Entsorgung. Dabei stehen vor allem Food … nichtstaatlicher Akteure rund um Nahrungsmittel- und Versorgungssicherheit in China bilden einen weiteren Schwerpunkt der vorliegenden …Pollution, urbanization as well as the continuous growth of the population challenge China's food policy of the 21st …
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Some reflections on the current situation in China
Heberer, Thomas - 2012
The paper examines recent political and social developments in the People's Republic of China. It highlights some of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010310429
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Intermediaries in international trade: Direct versus indirect modes of export
Bernard, Andrew B.; Grazzi, Marco; Tomasi, Chiara - 2010
This paper contributes to the relatively new literature on the role of intermediaries in international trade. Using Italian firm-level data, we document significant differences between exporters of different types and highlight the role of country-specific fixed cost in the choice of direct...
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An empirically based model of the supply schedule in day-ahead electricity markets
Sapio, Sandro - 2006
The first part of this paper establishes some new pieces of evidence on the dynamics of prices and volumes in wholesale electricity day-ahead markets (NordPool, APX, Powernext). The growth of prices is more strongly autocorrelated than the growth of volumes; it is more more heavy-tailed; and its...
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Anmerkungen zur aktuellen Diskussion zum Merit-Order Effekt der erneuerbaren Energien
Wissen, Ralf; Nicolosi, Marco - 2007
Ziel dieses Papers ist es, die derzeitige Diskussion bzgl. des sog. Merit-Order Effektes der erneuerbaren Energien auf den Strompreis kritisch zu beleuchten. Veröffentlichungen, welche diesen Effekt quantifizieren, weisen für die Jahre 2005 und 2006 einen Großhandels-Strompreis senkenden...
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A Markov switching model of the merit order to compare British and German price formation
Zachmann, Georg - 2007
The objective of this paper is to develop a model to determine the price formation of wholesale electricity markets. For that purpose, we model wholesale electricity prices depending on the prices of fuels (coal and natural gas) and of CO2 emission allowances using a Markov Switching Regression....
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