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firms undertake investments which benefit the industry in aggregate. The model is consistent with observations from the …
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The stabilisation of GHG atmospheric concentrations at levels expected to prevent dangerous climate change has become an important, global, long-term objective. It is therefore crucial to identify a cost-effective way to achieve this objective. In this paper we use WITCH, a hybrid...
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unbundling are still advantageous when we allow for discriminatory capacity investments, investments into marginal cost reduction … and investments into network reliability. If access prices are unregulated, however, legal unbundling may be quite …
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In markets with competing interconnected networks like mobile telecommunication markets investments affect the investor …'s and also any competitors' profits. In a theoretical model it is shown that cost-reducing investments reduce the investor …'s termination rates and increase competitors' termination rates under the callingparty-network-pays regime. Moreover, investments …
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The paper studies the incentive for providers to invest in new health care technologies under alternative payment systems, when the patients' benefits are uncertain. If the reimbursement by the purchaser includes both a variable (per patient) and a lump-sum component, efficiency can be ensured...
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. Investments have reached unprecedented levels and stimulus packages to tackle the recent economic crisis also contain noticeable … commitments to green technologies. Innovation policies are now under pressure to capitalize these investments and define … paper is to clarify foreseen impacts of growing environmental technology investments, 'green' components of economic …
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, consumption, traded volumes, and prices between the scenarios. Investments in pipelines, LNG terminals and storage are also …
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This paper investigates how the formation of larger buyers affects a supplier's profits and, by doing so, his incentives to undertake non-contractible activities. We first identify two chan-nels of buyer power, which allows larger buyers to obtain discounts. We subsequently exam-ine the effects...
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Investments in Generating Capacities between a monopolist and two competing firms are compared where the firms invest …
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evaluate their investments in IT. Adding to the difficulty is the peculiar nature ofsuch investments having Human and …
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