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Market design for trading commoditized renewable energy
Heshmati, Almas; Abolhosseini, Shahrouz - 2014
Information and communication technology plays an important role in achieving a higher level of energy efficiency. In particular, energy efficiency can be achieved by integrating information technology into electricity networks to enable the interaction between suppliers and customers (smart...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010393862
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Discerning the Global in the European Revolutions of 1989
Armbruster, Chris - 2008
1989 as a regional transition of Central Europe only. This essay does not substitute the stultifying regional perspective …; - Nation building processes in the USSR and Eastern Europe and the consolidation of independent states;- Resistance, dissidence … has seemed dark, an age of extremes and violence defined in Europe and spreading from there. However, just before 1989, it …
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Institutions, Market Power and the Big Push: the Case of Agro-Exports in Northern Honduras.
de Fontenay, C. - School of Economics, UNSW Business School - 1999
This paper examines the implementation of a Big Push policy in Northern Honduras. Big Push theory emphasizes that pro-active development policy could potentially lead to a Pareto-superior equilibrium. Market forces may not lead to the adoption of increasing-returns production processes, if...
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Price-cost margin and bargaining power in the European Union
Soares, Ana Cristina - 2019
Using firm-level data between 2004 and 2012 for eleven countries of the European Union (EU), we document the size of product and labour market imperfections within narrowly defined sectors including services which are virtually undocumented. Our findings suggest that perfect competition in both...
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Bribes vs. taxes : market structure and incentives
Amodio, Francesco; Choi, Jieun; De Giorgi, Giacomo; … - 2018
Firms in developing countries often avoid paying taxes by making informal payments to tax officials. These bribes may raise the cost of operating a business, and the price charged to consumers. To decrease these costs, we designed a feedback incentive scheme for business tax inspectors that...
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Causality and Efficiency in the Coffee Futures Market
Kebede, Yohannes - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1992
Tests for causality and rationality in the coffee futures market were carried out using data from the New York Market. Tests of causality indicated that futures prices strongly influence variations in spot price eight weeks or more to maturity. However, beginning seven weeks to maturity there...
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Transmission des chocs de prix internationaux : le cas du riz au Burkina Faso
BADOLO, Félix - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement … - 2011
La hausse des prix des produits agricoles sur les marchés internationaux durant la période 2006-2008 a entraîné une flambée des prix intérieurs dans certains pays en développement, mais pas dans d’autres. La littérature empirique sur la transmission des chocs des prix internationaux...
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An Unbiased Pareto Improvement strategy for poverty alleviation
Zaman, Md Monowaruz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
There are historical and institutional reasons behind our economic problems like poverty and environmental damage but it is not acceptable if they persist in years to come. The strategic use of information by individual economic agents establishes a biasing effect on our economy. In case of...
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Market Design for Trading Commoditized Renewable Energy
Heshmati, Almas; Abolhosseini, Shahrouz - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014
Information and communication technology plays an important role in achieving a higher level of energy efficiency. In particular, energy efficiency can be achieved by integrating information technology into electricity networks to enable the interaction between suppliers and customers (smart...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010890029
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Market Design for Trading Commoditized Renewable Energy
Heshmati, Almas; Abolhosseini, Shahrouz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Information and communication technology plays an important role in achieving a higher level of energy efficiency. In particular, energy efficiency can be achieved by integrating information technology into electricity networks to enable the interaction between suppliers and customers (smart...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886132