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Atomkraft ist nicht wettbewerbsfähig: Auch im Vereinigten Königreich und Frankreich ist Klimaschutz ohne Atomkraft möglich
Lorenz, Casimir; Brauers, Hanna; Gerbaulet, Clemens; … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 83 (2016) 44, pp. 1047-1054
and cost considerations alone. In Western Europe, the UK and France are still determined to implement their plans to build …The nuclear power industry is faced with profound challenges - not only in Germany, but throughout Europe as well. New … that nuclear power would disappear from Europe's power generation mix by 2050 were the decision based on economic factors …
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Atomkraft ist nicht wettbewerbsfähig : auch im Vereinigten Königreich und Frankreich ist Klimaschutz ohne Atomkraft möglich
Lorenz, Casimir; Brauers, Hanna; Gerbaulet, Clemens; … - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 83 (2016) 44, pp. 1047-1054
and cost considerations alone. In Western Europe, the UK and France are still determined to implement their plans to build …The nuclear power industry is faced with profound challenges - not only in Germany, but throughout Europe as well. New … that nuclear power would disappear from Europe’s power generation mix by 2050 were the decision based on economic factors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011554622
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Enhancing competitiveness, purchasing power and employment by increasing competition in France
Goujard, Antoine - 2015
Over the past decade, France has substantially eased the burden of anti-competitive regulations and effectively …. This Working Paper relates to the 2015 OECD Economic Survey of France (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/economic-survey-france.htm). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399704
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Identification and Estimation of Cost Functions Using Observed Bid Data: An Application to Electricity Markets
Wolak, Frank A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001
This paper presents several techniques for recovering cost function estimates for electricity generation from a model of optimal bidding behavior in a competitive electricity market. Two techniques are developed based on different models of the price-setting process in a competitive electricity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829987
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An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Hedge Contracts on Bidding Behavior
Wolak, Frank A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001
A major concern in the design of wholesale electricity markets is the potential for the exercise of market power by generating unit owners. To better understand the determinants of generating unit owner market power and how it is exercised, this paper derives a model of bidding behavior in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830349
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Automakers' Short-Run Responses to Changing Gasoline Prices
Langer, Ashley; Miller, Nathan H. - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 95 (2013) 4, pp. 1198-1211
We provide empirical evidence that automobile manufacturers use cash incentives to offset how gasoline price fluctuations affect the expected fuel expenses of automobile buyers. Regressions based on a database of incentives over 2003 to 2006 suggest that on average, manufacturers offset 40% of...
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Entry and Competition in Local Newspaper Retail Markets - When two are enough
Balmer, Roberto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This chapter estimates sustainable coverage and competitive effects of entry for Swiss newspaper sellers which sell composite goods, including a range of other products such as food and near-food items. It utilises the applied entry threshold ratio methodology from Bresnahan and Reiss (1991),...
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Competition and Market Strategies in the Swiss Fixed Telephony Market. An estimation of Swisscom’s dynamic residual demand curve.
Balmer, Roberto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Fixed telephony has long been a fundamentally important market for European telecommunications operators. The liberalisation and the introduction of regulation in the end of the 1990s, however, allowed new entrants to compete with incumbents at the retail level. A rapid price decline and a...
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The Impact of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 on Electric Utilitiesand Coal Mines: Evidence from the Stock Market
Knittel, Christopher; Kahn, Shulamit - Economics Department, University of California-Davis - 2002
If new environmental regulation imposes significant costs on firms, it should be detected in their stock prices. We use event study methodology to analyze whether President George H. Bush’s Clean Air Act Amendment (CAAA) proposals of June 1989, which were quite different from what had been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008620334
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Biases in Static Oligopoly Models?:Evidence from the California Electricity Market
Knittel, Christopher; Kim, Dae-Wook - Economics Department, University of California-Davis - 2005
Estimating market power is often complicated by a lack of reliable marginal cost data. Instead, policy-makers often rely on summary statistics of the market, thought to be correlated with price cost margins? such as concentration ratios or the HHI. In many industries, these summary statistics...
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