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Structural Estimation of the Effect of Out-of-Stocks

Musalem, Andres - 2010

W e develop a structural demand model that endogenously captures the effect of out-of-stocks on customer choice by simulating a time-varying set of available alternatives. Our estimation method uses store-level data on sales and partial information on product availability. Our model allows for...

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Understanding Market potential for biodiesel in Spain: A Pilot study based on consumer preferences

Gracia, Azucena; Barreiro-Hurle, Jesus; Perez y Perez, Luis - 2009

biodiesel is still low compared to other EU countries. The aim of the paper is to analyze consumers’ preferences for biodiesel …

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An analysis of hours worked per worker in Spain: trends and recent developments

Cuadrado Salinas, Pilar

Rationale Changes in working hours are one of the factors that determine the contribution of labour to an economy’s growth. It is therefore worth assessing whether the moderate downward trend observed in this variable over the last four decades is likely to persist. Takeaways •The fall in...

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Contracts for dispatchable power

Kahn, E.P.; Stoft, S.; Marnay, C.; Berman, D. - 2008

Competitive bidding for electric power is maturing. Increasing numbers of utilities are soliciting proposals from …

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ELSA: an electric power supply analysis model for the Pacific Northwest. [Effects of developments]

Harrington, T.P.; Jacobsen, J.J. - 2008

(Electric Power Supply Analysis Model), one component of this overall program, is a simulation model of the electric supply … test their effect on the cost and availability of power. ELSA is divided into three major sectors: production, regulatory …

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A prefeasibility study of energy resource options in Hainan, China

Hill, L.J.; Russell, M.; Barron, W.F.; LaRocco, P.; Shen, Z. - 2008

This study identifies a strategy that (1) provides future energy services for Hainan in the least environmentally degrading way, (2) eliminates the need to build significant amounts of new fossil-fueled, electric generating capacity, saving capital to invest in other development projects, (3)...

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Electricity pricing as a demand-side management strategy: Western lessons for developing countries

Hill, L.J. - 2008

expansion to meet current and future electric power demand. …

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The role of analytical models: Issues and frontiers

Blair, P. - 2008

A number of modeling attempts to analyze the implications of increasing competition in the electric power industry … only modest mechanisms to facilitate increased bulk power transactions between utility systems. More fundamental changes in … market structure, such as the existence of independent power producers or wheeling transactions between customers and utility …

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Economics of geothermal electricity generation from hydrothermal resources

Bloomster, C.H.; Knutsen, C.A. - 2007

steam and binary power cycles are closely competitive; the binary cycle appears better when the brine temperature is below … reduction in power costs would be achieved by reducing well drilling costs, stimulating well flow rates, reducing powerplant …

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Community-Level Impacts Projection System (CLIPS). Final report

Monts, J.K.; Bareiss, E.R. - 2007

The Community-Level Impacts Projection System includes a set of techniques for providing detailed advance information required for rational planning. The computerized system generates reports which enable the user: to describe the energy development activity in terms of its employment demands...

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