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Brasil: gobernanza regulatoria del sector energético y desarrollo social
Camiña, Vanesa Valverde - HAL - 2012
The discovery of new oil fields and the bid for ecological fuels make Brazil world energy leader. However, this achievement cannot only be maintained thanks to the country's wealth of natural resources but rather it requires a model based on efficient and sustainable energy policies. Brazil's...
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Is Wikipedia Inefficient? Modelling Effort and Participation in Wikipedia
CROWSTON, Kevin; JULLIEN, Nicolas; ORTEGA, Felipe - HAL - 2013
compare the efficiency of Wikipedia projects in different languages and at different states of development to examine this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820569
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Influence and Social Tragedy in Networks
Rébillé, Yann; Richefort, Lionel - HAL - 2014
should exert less effort at efficiency. We then find structural conditions under which each player exerts strictly more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821156
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The Incidence of Non-Linear Consumption Taxes
Carbonnier, Clément - HAL - 2013
The present article generalyses economic litterature on consumption tax incidence to general forms of consumption taxes. Previous studies were limited to the cases of per unit and ad valorem taxes. Three main contributions are provided. From a methodological point of view, the elasticity of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821308
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A value for bi-cooperative games
Labreuche, Christophe; Grabisch, Michel - HAL - 2008
Bi-cooperative games were introduced by Bilbao et al. as a generalization of TU cooperative games, in which each player can participate positively, negatively, or not at all. In this paper, we propose a definition of a share of the worth obtained by some players after they decided on their...
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Sustainability matters
Dimaria, Charles-Henri - HAL - 2013
This documents aims at bridging productivity measurement and weak sustainability in a specific data envelopment analysis framework that allows for negative output. In this framework countries use two inputs: capital and labour and seeks to maximize output and adjusted net saving. The indicator...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010898515
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Efficiency in auctions with crossholdings
Ettinger, David - HAL - 2003
We study the impact of crossholdings on the efficiency of the standard auction formats. The ascending auction is not …
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Is the rebound effect or Jevons paradox a useful concept for better management of water resources? Insights from the Irrigation Modernisation Process in Spain
Dumont, Aurélien; Mayor, Beatriz; López-Gunn, Elena - HAL - 2013
Improving the efficiency of water use is usually presented as an opportunity for large water savings, particularly in … rush for efficiency gains. This article, based on the energy sector, shows that the concept helps to identify possible … unintended consequences of increasing efficiency and shows how efficiency gains are shared in society. However, it might be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010898730
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Research on trends of national service industries/ Исследование современных тенденций развития отечественной сферы услуг
Edelev, Dmitry - HAL - 2009
The author analyses trends of development of the service sector in a market economy of the Russian Federation. Studies are based on the statistical data analysis of socio-economic indicators. The results of the aforementioned analysis are able to provide with efficient management of the domestic...
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Participation, Recruitment Selection, and the Minimum Wage
Gavrel, Frederic - HAL - 2014
This paper reexamines the e ciency of participation with heterogeneous workers in a search-matching model with bargained wages and free entry. As- suming that rms hire their best applicants, we state that participation is insu cient whatever workers' bargaining strengths. The reason for this is...
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