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Market Design for Trading Commoditized Renewable Energy

Heshmati, Almas - 2014

Information and communication technology plays an important role in achieving a higher level of energy efficiency. In particular, energy efficiency can be achieved by integrating information technology into electricity networks to enable the interaction between suppliers and customers (smart...

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Flexible Work Organization and Employer Provided Training : Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data

Campaner, Annika - 2018

likelihood of receiving employer provided training. Using unique linked employer-employee data from Germany, we confirm that … variety, two essential elements of flexibility. Critically, the training associated with workplace flexibility does not simply … workplace flexibility is disproportionately oriented toward employees with a greater formal education. Our results also provide …

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Improving the Allocation of Spots in Child Care Facilities for Toddlers in Germany : A Mechanism Design Approach

Carlsson, Sissa - 2015

The undersupply of spots in German daycare facilities for toddlers challenges parents' possibilities to work. To ease the situation, the government implemented a new law entitling every child between ages one and three to daycare supervision for about four hours per day. Nevertheless, the...

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How Policy Changes Affect Shareholder Wealth : The Case of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster

Betzer, André - 2011

of almost half of Germany's nuclear reactors while safety checks were carried out, and a three-month moratorium on … companies to renewable energies companies in Germany. We moreover find that the joint market capitalization of these firms has …

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And I Will Try to Fix You : A Study of Heterogeneity in Job Satisfaction with Implications for Flexible Employment Contracts

Chongvilaivan, Aekapol - 2011

This paper is an empirical study of slope heterogeneity in job satisfaction. It provides evidence from the generalized ordered probit models that different job characteristics tend to have different distributional impacts on the overall job satisfaction. For instance, standard models tend to...

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In-Work Benefits and the Nordic Model

Kolm, Ann-Sofie - 2013

Welfare benefits in the Nordic countries are often tied to employment. We argue that this is one of the factors behind the success of the Nordic model, where a comprehensive welfare state is associated with high employment. In a general equilibrium setting, the underlining mechanism works...

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Research Design Meets Market Design : Using Centralized Assignment for Impact Evaluation

Abdulkadiroglu, Atila - 2017

Atmospheric pollution was an important side effect of coal-fired industrialisation in the nineteenth century. In Britain emissions of black smoke were on the order of fifty times as high as they were a century later. In this paper we examine the effects of these emissions on child development by...

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Political Culture and Discrimination in Contests

Epstein, Gil S. - 2010

Many economic and political decisions are the outcome of strategic contests for a given prize. The nature of such contests can be determined by a designer who is driven by political considerations with a specific political culture. The main objective of this study is to analyze the effect of...

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Competing with Asking Prices

Lester, Benjamin - 2013

In many markets, sellers advertise their good with an asking price. This is a price at which the seller is willing to take his good off the market and trade immediately, though it is understood that a buyer can submit an offer below the asking price and that this offer may be accepted if the...

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The Efficient and Fair Approval of Multiple-Cost - Single-Benefit Projects Under Unilateral Information

Kahana, Nava - 2009

This paper focuses on indivisible multiple-cost-single-benefit projects that must be approved by the government. A simple mechanism is proposed that ensures an efficient and fair implementation of such projects. The proposed mechanism is appropriate for a unilateral information structure: the...

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