Increasing the shares of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) and Distributed EnergyResources (DER) is one of the most important levers in many countries to cope withthe environmental, political, and economic challenges of future energy supply. Theunderlying question of this thesis is whether...

We present a stochastic version of the single-level, multi-product dynamic lotsizingproblem subject to a capacity constraint. A production schedule has tobe determined for random demand so that expected costs are minimized and aconstraint based on a new backlog-oriented Sigma-service-level...

This paper presents an approach to depict subsistence production of milk in a partial equilibriumsector model and applies this approach to Poland, Bulgaria and Romania in the European SimulationModel (ESIM). The restriction on milk production implied by the EU milk quota in a situation...

In order to reduce obesity and associated costs, policymakers are considering variouspolicies, including taxes, to change consumers’ high-calorie consumption habits. We investigatetwo tax policies aimed at reducing added sweetener consumption. Both a consumption tax onsweet goods and a...

A commonly observed feature of visitation data, elicited via a survey instrument, is a greaterpropensity for individuals to report trip numbers that are multiples of 5's, relative to otherpossible integers (such as 3 or 6). One explanation of this phenomenon is that some surveyrespondents have...

Random Utility Maximization (RUM) models of recreation demand are typically plaguedby limited information on environmental and other attributes characterizing the available sitesin the choice set. To the extent that these unobserved site attributes are correlated with theobserved characteristics...

In this study, we regard the oligopolistic-oligopsonistic markets within the framework of a“double auction” in which both buyers and sellers make bids. To this end, we introduce gameswhere declarations of supply and demand functions (which need not be true) are treated asstrategic variables...

Students in majors with higher average quantitative GRE scores are less likely to attend graduate school whilestudents in majors with higher average verbal GRE scores are more likely to attend graduate school. This sortingeffect means that students whose cognitive skills are associated with...

This paper examines the aggregate demand for inputs, including housework and otherservices, used by the US household sector to produce home goods that directly provide them utilityover the post-World War II period. By assuming that households produce a commodity called homegoods and that...