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CER - Centre for European Reform
Centre for European Reform <London>
The Centre for European Reform is a think-tank devoted to improving the quality of the debate on the European Union. It is a forum for people with ideas from Britain and across the continent to discuss the many political, economic and social challenges facing Europe. It seeks to work with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009636990
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Corruption and Pro-Poor Growth Outcomes: Evidence and Lessons for African Countries
Ndikumana, Léonce - 2006
There is growing consensus on the view that corruption hurts economic performance by reducing private investment, by adversely affecting the quantity and quality of public infrastructure, by reducing tax revenue, and by reducing human capital accumulation. In addition to inefficiency effects –...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468223
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Formation and dispersion of expectations : an empirical analysis with special focus on inflation
Jonas Dovern - 2009
explain the development of inflation dynamics and the formation process of inflation expectations of households respectively. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429015
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Integration of hydrothermal energy economics related quantitative studies
2007
An evaluation of the existing hydrothermal energy economics related quantitative studies is provided. The objective is to present the similarities and differences in methodology and assumptions, and explain the impact of these differences on the energy price estimates. A brief summary of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436375
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Geothermal probabilistic cost study
Orren, L.H.; Ziman, G.M.; Jones, S.C.; Lee, T.K.; Noll, R. - 2007
A tool is presented to quantify the risks of geothermal projects, the Geothermal Probabilistic Cost Model (GPCM). The GPCM model is used to evaluate a geothermal reservoir for a binary-cycle electric plant at Heber, California. Three institutional aspects of the geothermal risk which can shift...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436921
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Summary of the technical report on estimating the impact of key programmatic risk allocation decisions on Phase 1 bids and U.S. Department of Energy costs
Keisler, J.M.; Buehring, W.A. - 2009
The US Department of Energy (DOE) is privatizing the processing of hazardous and radioactive tank waste at the Hanford Site in Washington State. As part of the privatization process, a request for proposals describing the conditions and DOE`s expectations for contractor performance and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436948
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The Behavior of Money and Other Economic Variables: Two Natural Experiments
Lothian, James R.; McCarthy, Cornelia H, - 2003
economic variable occurs that has no direct relation to the contemporaneous behavior of the variables that theory suggests it … involving changes in the inflation and monetary-policy regimes: the move to floating exchange rates following the breakdown of … throughout the industrialized world a decade later. In the case of the float, inflation which had been rising since the mid-1960s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009440738
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How Much Did Speculation Contribute to Recent Food Price Inflation?
Amanor-Boadu, Vincent; Zereyesus, Yacob A. - 2009
activities in the commodity markets over the past decade to price inflation. The paper argues that government regulatory policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445819
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Commodity Price Pass-Through in Differentiated Retail Food Markets
Richards, Timothy J.; Allender, William J.; Pofahl, … - 2010
would lead to more general food inflation, but by early 2009 interest focused more on the seeming inability of food prices … retail food price inflation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446101
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Statutory Tax Burden and Its Avoidance in Transitional Russia
Ivanenko, Vlad - 2002
non- payments to compensate incompletely for the costs of inflation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447265