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Zimbabwe, just like many other developing nations has its economic growth path mapped mainly by the agricultural sector. The agricultural sector has been labelled the backborne of many economies, and countries are reprioritizing agriculture and food security as paramount to human development....
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Analyzing price data from sequential German electricity markets, namely the day-ahead and intraday auction, a puzzling but apparently systematic pattern of price premiums can be identified. The price premiums are highly correlated with the underlying demand profile. As there is evidence that...
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For quite a long time, network industries used to be regarded as (natural) monopolies. This was due to these industries having some special characteristics. Network externalities and economies of scale in particular justified the (natural) monopoly thesis. Recently, however, a trend towards...
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For quite a long time, network industries used to be regarded as (natural) monopolies. This was due to these industries having some special characteristics. Network externalities and economies of scale in particular justified the (natural) monopoly thesis. Recently, however, a trend towards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003285766
While productivity growth in electricity generation is associated with multiple positive effects from an economic and … environmental perspective, measuring it is challenging. This paper proposes a framework to estimate and decompose productivity … estimation based on stochastic non-smooth envelopment of data (StoNED) allows for productivity estimation with few microeconomic …
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This paper, which is one of the first to estimate productivity in retail electricity for a European country after … services as the main inputs. A structural model is used with a proxy function for productivity to overcome the endogeneity of … input choice. Ownership is controlled for in the law of motion for productivity. The results of the dataset used to validate …
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This paper analyzes the impact of load factor, facility and generator types on the productivity of Korean electric …
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This paper analyzes the impact of load factor, facility and generator types on the productivity of Korean electric …
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versus private ownership and the quality of institutions as determinants of productivity. While earlier literature has … lower productivity than under private ownership, here we focus on the role of institutions as an external governance … than their private counterparts (a result robust to different productivity measures), but we also discover two new facts …
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In many countries, unreliable inputs, particularly those lacking storage, can significantly limit a firm's productivity … that these productivity changes, while costly to firms, led to small reductions in carbon emissions …
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