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Foreign Direct Investment screening for "national security"or sustainable development: A blessing in disguise?

Terán, Daniel Uribe - 2024

Over the past decade, the global adoption of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) screening mechanisms (ISMs) has surged …

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Exploring digitalisation adaptation of agro-food firms: Evidence from Greece

Ioannidis, Stylianos; Karelakis, Christos; … - In: International Journal of Business and Economic Sciences … 15 (2022) 1, pp. 94-104

Purpose: The present study aims to investigate the primary tools and digitalisation applications used by agro-food firms in Greece. These factors encourage or discourage digitalisation and identify which policies are in place to ensure an effective digitalisation in the food sector....

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Why Have Business Investments Decreased?

Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki; Kuusi, Tero; Maliranta, Mika - 2017

In this study we analyse the development of business investments in Finland and in other countries of comparison on the … corresponding rate with the investments. For this reason, the investment rate of companies is currently almost at the same level as … in the years 2000–2008. However, after the financial crisis the development of investment volume has been weaker in …

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Estimating Economies of Scale and Scope with Flexible Technology

Triebs, Thomas; Saal, David S.; Arocena, Pablo; … - 2012

Economies of scale and scope are typically modelled and estimated using cost functions that are common to all firms in an industry irrespective of whether they specialize in a single output or produce multiple outputs. We suggest an alternative flexible technology model that does not make this...

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Künftige Netzregulierung als Grundpfeiler einer effektiven Liberalisierung des deutschen Stromsektors

Leprich, Uwe; Diekmann, Jochen; Ziesing, Hans-Joachim - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 76 (2007) 1, pp. 87-98

Mit dem 2005 novellierten Energiewirtschaftsgesetz wurde in Deutschland eine staatliche Regulierung der Energienetze eingeführt, die einen diskriminierungsfreien Netzzugang und eine zunächst kostenorientierte Entgeltbindung vorsieht. Wie schon in vielen anderen Ländern soll künftig auch hier...

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Restructuring European electricity markets: A panel data analysis

Hyland, Marie - 2015

This paper looks at the restructuring of European electricity markets that has been taking place since the 1990s. This liberalisation process, driven largely by EU legislation aiming to create a single market for electricity, has led to significant changes in how electricity markets in member...

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Cross-border electricity interconnectors in the EU: The status quo

Brunekreeft, Gert; Meyer, Roland - 2018

Commission has proposed several policy measures to accelerate interconnector investment. This paper provides an overview of the … interconnector investment and the policy proposals to improve the investment incentives, and more specifically, how to deal with …

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Evaluation of strategy of power generation business under large-scale integration of renewable energy

Brunekreeft, Gert; Buchmann, Marius; Hattori, Toru; … - 2016

utilities to rethink their business strategies. We analyze three main developments that undermine the former market dominance of … services beyond sole energy supply. Promising focus areas are renewable energies, the distribution business, and smart …

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The effects of market-based reforms on access to electricity in developing countries: a systematic review

Bensch, Gunther - In: Journal of Development Effectiveness 11 (2019) 2, pp. 165-188

Market-based reforms have been promoted over the past decades to improve the performance of the power sector. This systematic review assesses the effect of market-based reforms in developing countries on intermediate outcomes like technical efficiency and the resulting impacts on electricity...

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Incentives, Efficiency and Quality in Regulated Monopolies under Customer Ownership

Meade, Richard - 2015

We extend the theory of monopoly regulation under imperfect information to the case of customer, rather than investor, ownership. The firm's manager can exert two types of effort - a contractible effort to reduce costs, and a non-contractible effort to increase quality. The former decreases...

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