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China Refrigerator Information Label: Specification Development and Potential Impact
Fridley, David; Fridley, David; Zheng, Nina; Zhou, Nan; … - 2008
of the label on China's market, CLASP further provided assistance to CNIS to collect data on both the efficiency … were required to display their declared level of efficiency on the label and report it to the China Energy Label Center …In the last five years, China's refrigerator market has grown rapidly, and now urban markets are showing signs of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435537
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Accelerating the Adoption of Second-Tier Reach Standards forApplicable Appliance Products in China
Lin, Jiang; Fridley, David - 2008
The minimum energy efficiency standards program for household appliances in China was initiated in 1989. Since 1996 … efficiency requirements for implementation within 6 months of a standard's approval. Since 2003, China has adopted a new approach … Section 1, Section 2 analyzes the distribution of the efficiency of refrigerators and air-conditioners in China based on data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435539
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Higher education and the public, private and non-profit sectors: Equal partners in promoting regional economic development
Hughey, Aaron W - 2003
Institutions of higher education throughout the world are increasingly aware of the importance of working more systematically and productively with community and business leaders in order to create better local economies and, ultimately, better societies. This article presents an overview of how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009466947
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Rethinking Economy for Regional Development: Ontology, Performativity, and Enabling Frameworks for Participatory Vision and Action
Miller, Ethan L - 2011
The stories we tell about "the economy" in discourses of regional economic development play an active role in shaping our economic realities. The construction of more equitable, democratic and ecologically-sound economies must involve an interrogation of our assumptions about what “the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468216
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Patents and Antitrust: Application to Adjacent Markets
Economides, Nicholas; Herbert, WILLIAM N.; Calvo and … - NYU Stern School of Business - 2007
between innovation and economic efficiency.Where a patent holder's invention uses an interface with adjacentproducts, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435110
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New analysis techniques for estimating impacts of federal appliance efficiency standards
McMahon, James E. - 2008
impacts of energy efficiency increases over a sample population of consumers to quantify the proportion of households having … derive the incremental change in retail prices associated with increased manufacturing costs for improving energy efficiency. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435423
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Estimation of the social costs of natural gas
Nieves, L.A.; Lemon, J.R. - 2011
This study determines the extent to which it is possible to develop monetary estimates of the marginal social cost of fuels, using natural gas to test a methodology that could be applied to other fuels. This requires review of previous estimates of both market and nonmarket costs to the extent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435496
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Programmatic risk reduction for large software procurements
Preckshot, G.; Jones, E.; Lawrence, D. - 2009
When making an important decision, program managers must evaluate the risk of each alternative and weigh the trade-offs between one type of risk and another. Program managers are familiar with the concepts of risk analysis and assessment in such areas as human factors, security, and accident...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435521
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Tariff-based analysis of commercial building electricityprices
Coughlin, Katie M.; Bolduc, Chris A.; Rosenquist, Greg J.; … - 2008
This paper presents the results of a survey and analysis ofelectricity tariffs and marginal electricity prices for commercialbuildings. The tariff data come from a survey of 90 utilities and 250tariffs for non-residential customers collected in 2004 as part of theTariff Analysis Project at LBNL....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435538
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Demand Response in the West: Lessons for States and Provinces
Douglas C. Larson; Matt Lowry; Sharon Irwin - 2008
the form of decreased grid congestion, improved system reliability, market efficiency, price stabilization, hedging …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435550