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Roege, Paul E.; Collier, Zachary A.; Mancillas, James; … - In: Energy Policy 72 (2014) C, pp. 249-256

Energy lies at the backbone of any advanced society and constitutes an essential prerequisite for economic growth, social order and national defense. However there is an Achilles heel to today׳s energy and technology relationship; namely a precarious intimacy between energy and the fiscal,...

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Internet-based public debate of CCS: Lessons from online focus groups in Poland and Spain

Riesch, Hauke; Oltra, Christian; Lis, Aleksandra; … - In: Energy Policy 56 (2013) C, pp. 693-702

This paper makes three contributions to the developing literature on public opinion and understanding of CCS. The first is a discussion of online focus groups as a deliberative method in experimental and perhaps consultative contexts. The second is the role of anchoring and associative reasoning...

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Retailers' risk management and vertical arrangements in electricity markets

Boroumand, Raphaël Homayoun; Zachmann, Georg - In: Energy Policy 40 (2012) C, pp. 465-472

structural dimensions of electricity's market risks, a retailer's level of risk exposure is unknown ex ante and will only be … through numerical simulations that in the current market context pure portfolios of contracts are incomplete risk management …

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Irrigation water management in uncertain conditions—Application of Modern Portfolio Theory

Paydar, Z.; Qureshi, M.E. - In: Agricultural Water Management 115 (2012) C, pp. 47-54

setting up management strategies. Adopting the basic idea of spreading the risk from the field of finance, Modern Portfolio … Theory is used in the current analysis to quantify the risk associated with a range of irrigation investment strategies … and mitigating the associated risk and choosing more robust portfolios or management strategies. In this paper, a risk …

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Avalanche protection by forests — A choice experiment in the Swiss Alps

Olschewski, Roland; Bebi, Peter; Teich, Michaela; … - In: Forest Policy and Economics 15 (2012) C, pp. 108-113

alternative technical measures for natural hazard mitigation as well as with the results of a risk-based evaluation. We conclude … that the willingness to pay for avalanche protection of forests is about the same range as the collective risk related to a …

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Avalanche protection by forests — A choice experiment in the Swiss Alps

Olschewski, Roland; Bebi, Peter; Teich, Michaela; … - In: Forest Policy and Economics 17 (2012) C, pp. 19-24

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Domain specificity of sex differences in competition

Wieland, Alice; Sarin, Rakesh - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 83 (2012) 1, pp. 151-157

There has been much recent literature about sex differences in competition, mostly noting that women are innately less competitive than men (Croson and Gneezy, 2009). This article examines the hypothesis that sex differences in propensity to compete are domain specific. We conducted a 2 (sex)×4...

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How should we regulate risk in biomedical research? An ethical analysis of recent policy proposals and initiatives

Rid, Annette - In: Health Policy 117 (2014) 3, pp. 409-420

levels of risk, and thereby unnecessarily stifle medical progress. To address this criticism, regulators are currently … developing more risk-adapted approaches to regulating research. A key feature of these approaches is that they aim to calibrate …

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Securitization, risk-transferring and financial instability: The case of Spain

Carbó-Valverde, Santiago; Marques-Ibanez, David; … - In: Journal of International Money and Finance 31 (2012) 1, pp. 80-101

The 2007–2010 financial crisis has hit a variety of countries asymmetrically. The case of Spain is particularly illustrative as it exemplifies in a vivid manner most of the core issues largely responsible for the crisis. This country experienced a pronounced housing bubble partly funded via...

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Electricity transmission tariffs for large-scale wind power consumption in western Gansu province, China

He, Y.X.; Zhu, M.Z.; Xiong, W.; Zhang, T.; Ge, X.L. - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 16 (2012) 7, pp. 4543-4550

and variable properties of the incremental cost and the risk of fluctuations in the cost, and establishes a comprehensive … risk-based pricing model for long-distance transmission of large-scale wind power electricity. Gansu Province in China has … eliminate the volatility risk inherent in each simple allocation method, and the fixed and variable characteristics of the …

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