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A number of modeling attempts to analyze the implications of increasing competition in the electric power industry … producers, were not considered. More recently in the course of the policy debate over increasing competition, a number of models … interpret altemative scenarios or other means of increasing competition in the electric power industry in the terms of existing …
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The only way resources can be efficiently allocated in our market system is if prices of resources, goods, and services properly reflect their true value to society. However, because of (a) imperfections in the pricing mechanisms that currently influence private-sector decision making; (b) the...
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A number of modeling attempts to analyze the implications of increasing competition in the electric power industry … producers, were not considered. More recently in the course of the policy debate over increasing competition, a number of models … interpret altemative scenarios or other means of increasing competition in the electric power industry in the terms of existing …
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of steam-coal trade of several deviations from the simple competitive model. In addition to perfect competition, we …
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clearing prices are determined based on marginal costs. The authors used this model, ORCED, to evaluate the market price of … price to 3.02 {cents}/kWh as the competitive price. If regulators use transition charges and price caps, then customers in … the Pacific Northwest need not be penalized by the change to marginal-cost pricing. Customer responses to price changes …
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have the lowest price possible. In the long run, competition promotes innovation and lower costs. The physical and … short run, firms who cannot produce at the market-clearing price are forced to leave the industry, ensuring that customers …
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The objective of this study was to examine if intra-racial income inequality contributes to higher infant mortality rates (IMRs) for African-Americans. The conceptual framework for this study is derived from Richard Wilkinson's psychosocial environment interpretation of the income inequality and...
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Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence recognises organisations in the USA, Mexico and Canada …
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