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Improvement restriction data envelopment analysis for new energy in Japan
Suzuki, Soushi - 2014
Japan is faced with "the Fukushima' problem," in which a single nuclear accident has led to drastic electrical power shortages. Owing to the strong backlash of public opinion, almost all of Japan's 54 nuclear plants suspended operations. An intensive search has started for alternative forms of...
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Inefficiency and regulation in credence goods markets with altruistic experts
Farukh, Razi; Kerkhof, Anna; Loebbing, Jonas - 2020
provide higher quality services to all consumers. The externality renders the market outcome inefficient. Price regulation …, price regulation should be accompanied by licensing arrangements that cap the number of experts in the market. Our theory … provides a novel rationale for the wide-spread use of price regulation and licensing in real-world markets for expert services. …
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The impact of production and infrastructure shocks : a non-linear input-output programming approach, tested on an hypothetical economy
Oosterhaven, Jan; Bouwmeester, Maaike C.; Nozaki, Michiya - 2014
This paper develops a methodology to predict and to thus possibly mitigate the economic impacts of major catastrophes, such as earthquakes and tsunamis. The short-run impacts are assumed to be determined by the attempts of economic actors to return to the pre-catastrophe economic situation as...
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Produção eficiente de leite e seus impactos na geração de emprego e renda no Estado de Minas Gerais, Brasil
Gomes, Adriano Provezano; Dias, Matheus Alves; Nascif, … - 2015
A produção de leite exerce papel de destaque no agronegócio brasileiro. No ano de 2012, a produção brasileira representou 5,16% do total mundial, colocando o país como o quarto maior produtor de leite. Em termos de valor bruto da produção, somente o segmento produtivo gerou US$ 14,4...
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The viability of global optimization for parameter estimation in spatial econometrics models
Wachowiak, Mark; Wachowiak-Smolíková, Renata; … - 2012
This paper addresses parameter estimation of spatial regression models incorporating spatial lag. These models are very important in spatial econometrics, where spatial interaction and structure are introduced into regression analysis. Because of spatial interactions, observations are not truly...
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What determines demand for telecommunications services? : evidence from the EU countries before and after liberalization
Agiakloglou, Christos N.; Polemis, Michael - 2015
This paper aims to investigate the main determinants of Telecommunications demand for European countries (EU). For this reason, a panel data set is used consisting of 19 EU countries over the period 1991-2010 capturing the years before and after the liberalization process. The goal is to clarify...
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Impact of administrative environment on opportunity and necessity entrepreneurship in Europe.
Anders, Justyna - 2011 - Draft paper
study is carried out to determine whether effects of regulation on GDP differences between developed and underdeveloped … procedures, regulation of ongoing activities, labour market regulation, registering property, closing a business) by World Bank … finance. The studies on regulation and start ups, research on barriers for entrepreneurship in Europe, studies of social …
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The nature and magnitude of the effects of asymmetric regulation of mobile termination rates on the Mexican retail prices
Robles-Rovalo, Arturo; Díaz-Goti, Emiliano; … - 2018
regulation. In our example, the termination rates have been part of a vertical restriction strategy. The observed network … competition, rest on a cost-based asymmetric price regulation. The further research allows a statistical assessment of the … asymmetric price regulation implemented by the Mexican regulatory authority during January 2013 to June 2017. This paper …
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Multisided markets and platform dominance
Alleman, James H.; Baranes, Edmond; Rappoport, Paul N. - 2019
The internet giants - Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, among others - have transformed society with both positive and negative effects. The negative effects have been stark. There have been huge disruptions caused by e-commerce. More recently, subtler, but even more serious negative effects...
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More than words : a global analysis of the socio-economic impact of Rich Interaction Applications (RIAs) : 28th ITS Europe, Passau, Germany
Arnold, René; Hildebrandt, Christian; Tas, Serpil; … - 2017
Applications such as iMessage, KakaoTalk, LINE, Signal, Skype, Snapchat, Threema, Viber, WhatsApp and WeChat have become an increasingly popular means of personal and business interaction. Surprisingly little academic effort has gone into understanding the nature and origin of these...
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