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Framework for the cost of policy implementation of the South African nuclear expansion program / P.A. Ballack

Ballack, Petrus Abram - 2010

Determining the cost of implementing a nuclear energy policy is very important due to the high costs associated with … nuclear programs. Such programs may be unattainable to certain countries due to the many requirements that ensure a safe and … secure nuclear sector. The IAEA has a large number of publications that indicate the requirements for implementing nuclear …

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The Growth of Solar Concentrator Photovoltaic Markets in the Southwest US

Connor, Sean - 2008

Worldwide solar photovoltaic (PV) markets have grown at an average rate at 38% over the past ten years. While polysilicon flat panel PV modules have traditionally dominated the overall solar market, a range of different solar energy conversion technologies are starting to gain market share. One...

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Essays in economic design : information, markets and dynamics

Hayashi, Takashi (contributor); … - 2011

This dissertation consists of three essays that apply both economic theory and econometric methods to understand design and dynamics of institutions. In particular, it studies how institutions aggregate information and deal with uncertainty and attempts to derive implications for optimal...

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Growth and productivity in Australia

Agbenyegah, Benjamin K.; Bloch, Harry - 2008

This paper empirically investigates and identifies the main contributing factors to output and productivity growth in Australia for the period 1950-2005. Cointegration and a vector error-correction model are used along with Granger causality tests, impulse response functions and forecast error...

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The stock market and South Africa's economic development

Frank, Ashley Gavin - 2004

Financial liberalisation, through increasing investment as well as the average productivity of capital, should stimulate economic growth, or so the theory goes. Bank lending unfortunately suffers adverse selection and moral hazard effects, to which the establishment and expansion of stock...

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Fertility and women’s employment reconsidered: a macro-level time series analysis for developed countries, 1960-2000

Engelhardt, Henriette; Koegel, Tomas; Prskawetz, Alexia - 2004

This paper examines causality and parameter instability in the long-run relationshipbetween fertility and women’s employment. This is done by a cross-national comparisonof macro-level time series data from 1960–2000 for France, West Germany, Italy,Sweden, the UK, and the USA. By applying...

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Analisis Kausalitas Antara PembangunanManusia dan Kinerja Ekonomi Sumatera Utara.

Sutanto, Himawan - 2011

The Title of this research is Causality analyze between human development andeconomic growth in North Sumatera. This research purposed to analyze causality relationbetween Human development and economic growth in North Sumatera. Variables used for thismodel are Human development Index (HDI) and...

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Testing for causality with Wald tests under nonregular conditions

Burda, Maike M. - 2001

Das Kausalitaetskonzept von Granger und die Impuls-Antwort-Analyse sind zwei Konzepte, die haeufig verwendet werden, um kausale Beziehungen zwischen zwei Variablen in vektorautoregressiven (VAR) Modellen zu untersuchen. Wenn das VAR Modell mehr als zwei Variablen umfasst, besteht eine...

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Where Do the Leaders Trade?

Hanousek, Jan; Nemecek, Libor - 1997

In the present paper we concentrate on the interaction and sharing of the information between the organized markets in the Czech Republic. Moreover, the interesting principal-agent problem between the Prague Stock Exchange (PSE) and RMS (over the counter system) is studied to identify the...

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Blowin' Down the Road: Investigating Bilateral Causality Between Dust Storms and Population in the Great Plains

Deane, Glenn; Gutmann, Myron P. - 2003

Recently, the National Academy of Sciences concluded “it is clear thatpopulation and the environment are usually interrelated . . . ”. This paper directlytests the expected interrelationship using annual county-level population estimatesprovided by the U.S. Census Bureau and annual counts of...

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