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Information Technology, Venture Capital and the Stock Market

Singh, Ajit; Singh, Alaka; Wiess, Bruce - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2000

This paper investigates the relationship between information technology and capital markets, specifically the enabling and stimulating role of the stock market in the `new economy.' A multivariate analysis is used to test the hypothesis that, other things being equal, a more fully developed and...

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Determinants of Investment under Incentive Regulation: The Case of Norwegian Electricity Distribution Networks

Poudineh, R.; Jamasb, T. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2013

Investment in electricity networks, as regulated natural monopolies, is among the highest regulatory and energy policy … electricity sector, identifying investment drivers of power networks facilitates effective regulatory treatment of investment … under incentive regulation. This study analyses the determinants of investment in Norwegian electricity distribution …

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Operational and Investment Response to Energy Prices in the OECD Manufacturing Sector

Steinbuks, J.; Neuhoff, K. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2010

This paper estimates the vintage capital model of energy demand and examines operational and investment responses to …-price investment elasticities of energy efficiency of capital stock vary between 0.03 and 0.9. The investment response to energy prices … that total (operational and investment) own-price elasticity of energy demand is close to one. …

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The impact of instrument choice on investment in abatement technologies: a case study of tax versus trade incentives for CCS and Biomass for electricity

Laing, T.; Grubb, M. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2010

investment that each of these instruments may provide. We build a three-period model to investigate the incentives offered to a …-and-trade schemes generate greater mean returns to such an investment than taxes, but with a wider distribution. We find that … of investment in relation to overall compliance costs. …

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The Effect of Energy Prices on Operation and Investment in OECD Countries: Evidence from the Vintage Capital Model

Steinbuks, J.; Meshreky, A.; Neuhoff, K. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2009

investment choices in different sectors. For this purpose, capital stock is characterised by vintages with different intensities … efficient use of these inputs by choosing more efficient technologies at the time of investment. The model is estimated for 23 …

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The Revenge of the Market on the Rentiers: Why neo-liberal Reports of the end of history turned out to be premature (Updated 19 December 2011)

Palma, J.G. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2009

Starting from the perspective of heterodox Keynesian-Minskyian-Kindlebergian financial economics, this paper begins by highlighting a number of mechanisms that contributed to the current financial crisis. These include excess liquidity, income polarisation, conflicts between financial and...

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‘Regulatory Issues in Merchant Transmission Investment’

Brunekreeft, G. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2004

Driven by fear of underinvestment in network assets, merchant investment in electricity transmission networks (MTI) is …

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The Declining Role of the State in Infrastructure Investments in the UK

Pollitt, M.G. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2000

begins by reviewing the effect of privatisation on the quantity of investment undertaken by the utility sector. The evidence …

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Electricity Distribution Networks: Investment and Regulation, and Uncertain Demand

Jamasb, T.; Marantes, C. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2011

University Press: Cambridge" and describes a network investment assessment model developed as a tool to identify and assess the … investment requirements of distribution networks. A broadening of the scope of network investments to include demand …

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Was Brazil's recent growth acceleration the world's most overrated boom?

Palma, J.G. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2012

As soon as international financial markets felt reassured in 2003 by the surprisingly neoliberal orientation of President Lula’s government, the ‘spot-the-new-Latin-tiger’ financial brigade became dazzled by Brazil — they just couldn’t have enough of it. So much so, that they had...

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