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Petroleum Product Pricing, Deregulation and Subsidies in Ghana : Perspectives on Energy Security
Acheampong, Theophilus - 2016
This paper reviews Ghana's recent experience on downstream petroleum products pricing and deregulation and looks at its … implications for the nation's energy security. The Government of Ghana in June 2015 put in place a deregulation policy that had the … on the economy. With the advent of full deregulation, the burden of managing forex risks will shift from the government …
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Decoding restricted participation in sequential electricity markets
Knaut, Andreas; Paschmann, Martin - 2017
Restricted participation in sequential markets may cause high price volatility and welfare losses. In this paper we therefore analyze the drivers of restricted participation in the German intraday auctin which is a short-term electricity market with quarter-hourly products. Applying a...
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Harnessing electricity retail tariffs to support climate change policy
Ryan, Lisa; La Monaca, Sarah; Mastrandrea, Linda; … - 2018
Legacy electricity retail tariffs are ill-adapted to future electricity systems and markets, particularly with regard to accommodating the multi-faceted shift toward decarbonisation. We examine how retail tariffs need to be reformed to not only meet the future revenue requirements of...
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Flexible Forward Contracts for Renewable Energy Generators in Deregulated Electricity Markets
Dar, Zamiyad; Gupta, Aparna; Kar, Koushik - 2022
We develop a flexible forward contracting mechanism for renewable generators with intermittent and uncertain power supply. Such a contract allows the renewable generators to engage in forward contracts in day-ahead markets with flexible loads. In our proposed contracting mechanism, the renewable...
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Electricity market integration, decarbonisation and security of supply : dynamic volatility connectedness in the Irish and Great Britain markets
Do, Hung; Nepal, Rabindra; Jamasb, Tooraj - 2020
This study investigates the volatility connectedness between the Irish and Great Britain electricity markets and how it is driven by changes in energy policy, institutional structures and political ideologies. We assess various aspects of this volatility connectedness including static...
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Mismeasuring Electricity Market Power
Brennan, Tim - 2004
By studying average variable costs, researchers examining the California energy crisis were sure to find examples of market power - even if that power may not have existed. By studying average variable costs, researchers examining the California energy crisis were sure to find examples of market...
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Land allocation in subsistence economies and intra-familial time-use decisions
Azebaze, Nadege Miclanche; Falk, Tomas; Korn, Evelyn - 2014
Classical household theory predicts that adolescents facing a developed labour market should invest in formal education. In contrast, it is obvious that adolescents in subsistence economies should choose learning-by-doing approaches to working on the family farm. However, it is unclear what...
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The impact of new foreign banks strategies on banking in Africa
Akwei, Cynthia - In: International journal of multinational corporation … 3 (2020) 1, pp. 49-65
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Competition in the banking industry : empirical evidence from Ghana
Adjei-Frimpong, Kofi; Gan, Christopher; Hu, Baiding - In: Open economies review 17 (2016) 3, pp. 159-175
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Changing electricity markets : quantifying the price effects of greening the energy matrix
Kohlscheen, Emanuel; Moessner, Richhild - 2022 - Original Version: June 2022, this version: July 2022
We analyse the drivers of European Power Exchange (EPEX) retail electricity prices between 2012 and early 2022 using machine learning. The agnostic random forest approach that we use is able to reduce in-sample root mean square errors (RMSEs) by around 50% when compared to a standard linear...
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