The article analyzed the dynamics of growth of cost of services at the enter-prises of water supply, sewerage and heating of Ukraine for 2002-2012 years. The extremely high growth rates require more cost effective management of costs. We proposed mechanism, which may stimulate reduction in the...

The assessment of capacity credits for wind energy and the value interpretation is reviewed critically. It is shown that the electricity market values the contribution to system reliability with market prices in a more precise way ...

Platforms operators act as private regulators to increase usage and maximize profits. Their goals depend on the development of the platform: overcoming the chicken-egg problem early on requires attracting platform participants while quality becomes more important later on. Private regulators...

Unabhängige Vermittler erbringen im Rahmen Ihrer Tätigkeiten wichtige Dienstleistungen fürVersicherungsunternehmen und Versicherungsnehmer. Zum einen soll für Versicherungsnehmerin vielen Bereichen passender Versicherungsschutz besorgt werden (Produktauswahl). Darüber hinauskönnen...

Child labor's effect on academic achievement is estimated, using unique data on 3rd and 4th graders in 9 Latin American countries. Cross-country variation in truancy regulations provides an exogenous shift in the ages of children normally in these grades, providing exogenous variation in...

[...]We focus here on three types of capital ratios—riskweighted,leverage, and gross revenue ratios. For each ratio, weexamine what makes it actually or potentially useful for bankregulation and we ask whether it is indeed significantly relatedto subsequent bank failure. Perhaps not...