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Assessing and ordering investments in polluting fossil-fueled and zero-carbon capital

Lecuyer, Oskar; Vogt-Schilb, Adrien - HAL - 2013

Climate change mitigation requires to replace preexisting carbon-intensive capital with different types of cleaner capital. Coal power and inefficient thermal engines may be phased out by gas power and efficient thermal engines or by renewable power and electric vehicles. We derive the optimal...

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Do networks make a difference? Explorations of working processes in a European humanitarian network

Egger, Clara - HAL - 2012

-makers. The results presented here explore the nexus between work and organizations in terms of innovation, framing and mimicry …

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Optimal Transition from Coal to Gas and Renewable Power under Capacity Constraints and Adjustment Costs

Lecuyer, Oskar; Vogt-Schilb, Adrien - HAL - 2014

This paper studies the optimal transition from existing coal power plants to gas and renewable power under a carbon budget. It solves a model of polluting, exhaustible resources with capacity constraints and adjustment costs (to build coal, gas, and renewable power plants). It finds that optimal...

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Workers behavior and labor contract : an evolutionary approach

Hiller, Victor - HAL - 2008

This article investigates the co-evolution of labor relationships and workers preferences. According to recent experimental economics findinggs on social preferences, the workforce is assumed to be heterogeneous. It is composed by both cooperative and non-cooperative workers. In addition, firms...

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The American and the French Third Sectors: a Comparison, Recent trends during the “Millennium Boom”, and the Impact of the Crisis

Archambault, Edith - HAL - 2010

After having stated some definitions and specified the legal and tax status of nonprofit organizations in France and the USA, this paper begins by comparing the scope of the American and the French third sectors, their structure and resources, using data from the Johns Hopkins Comparative...

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Regional development: contribution of evolutionary biology

Vaskova, Lucie - HAL - 2004

This paper tries to set out a potential of application of some evolutionary biology concepts to the issue of regional development. The objective is to show that employment of these concepts or at least inspiration by them may enrich some theories of regional development and enhance the...

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Institutional theories and public institutions: Traditions and appropriateness

Thoenig, Jean-Claude - HAL - 2003

Public institutions are organized configurations which are prone to institutionalization processes. They reflect as well as produce and diffuse valuues, norms, cognitions, meanings and identities about life and evolution of society, polity or economy. The text covers a set of theories which...

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Real time grid congestion management in presence of high penetration of wind energy

Vergnol, Arnaud; Sprooten, Jonathan; Robyns, Benoît; … - HAL - 2009

With the increased use of wind energy the power generation several Transmission System Operators (TSO) have increasing difficulties for congestion forecasting due to the unpredictable nature of the energy source. This paper proposes to enhance the congestion management using a real time...

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Active Labour Market Policies in Denmark : A Comparative Analysis of Post-Program Effects

Blache, Guillaume - HAL - 2011

The scope of the paper is to estimate post-program effects in fostering good transitions from unemployment to work. Such an issue implies that besides job finding rates, qualitative variables related to work have to be included as well. The evaluation is based on a comprehensive transversal...

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The geography of innovation : challenge to technology policy within regions

Fadairo, Muriel; Massard, Nadine - HAL - 2009

The "Geography of Innovation" is based on the desire to give empirical foundations to the explanations behind the … pronounced spatial polarisation of the innovation activities. It focuses on an attempt to measure the spatial dimension of … survey this empirical literature in order to highlight the main results interesting for the innovation policy. This analysis …

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