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welfare of other members of the community. If an investment project is undertaken that causes the poorer members of society to … develops a theoretical framework for the evaluation of the basic needs externality created by the investment. It then applies …
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negative externalities and save money. This overview paper presents a simple model of investment in energy-using capital stock … profitable unexploited investment opportunities is much smaller than engineering-accounting studies suggest. Finally, there is …
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infrastructures like electricity and information and communication technology (the vulnerability paradox), sometimes people conclude …
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on the effects of the rapidly rising electricity tariffs. The issue of tariff increases has now become even more critical …-based electricity. There have been some South African studies that have attempted to estimate the price elasticity of electricity demand … individual firms and their decisions to invest in their own generation, and the longer-run impacts on electricity demand. This …
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Market prices make it possible to realise returns on capital investments in the electricity sector, but these prices … initiator mechanisms for capital investment but, rather, to study an alternative. We show that this conceptually simple …
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In this paper we examine the effects of interest group pressure and the structure of political institutions on infrastructure deployment by state-owned electric utilities in a panel of 78 countries during the period 1970 – 1994. We consider two factors that jointly influence the rate of...
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Driven by fear of underinvestment in network assets, merchant investment in electricity transmission networks (MTI) is …
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The German decision to finally phase-out nuclear electricity has led to a debate on its effects on electricity prices …, emission prices in the European emission trading system, as well as on international electricity trade. We investigate these … effects with a Electricity market model for Europe with investments in power plants under oligopolistic conditions in Germany …
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production capacity. In a zonal pricing electricity market, the one proposed by the European Commission to integrate the European … electricity markets, I analyze the effects that investments in transmission and production capacity have on consumer welfare and … suppliers' profits. In the specific setting of this paper, I show that when the competition is perfect, an investment in …
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The German decision to finally phase-out nuclear electricity has led to a debate on its effects on electricity prices …, emission prices in the European emission trading system, as well as on international electricity trade. We investigate these … effects with a Electricity market model for Europe with investments in power plants under oligopolistic conditions in Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014167724