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An Economic Analysis of Pervasive, Incentive-Based Demand Response

Karl Aberer, Tri Kurniawan Wijaya, Matteo Vasirani

Demand response (DR) emerges as one of the cheapest and greenest solutions to match supply and demand in the electricity sector. While DR has been focused on large and industrial consumers, pervasive implementation (by including residential consumers) is n ...

2015

Producer cooperatives: a transaction cost economic approach

Joana Rodrigues Pereira

This paper aims at understanding whether producer cooperatives are efficient organisational forms, through the lenses of Transaction Cost Economics. To accomplish this goal I will answer the questions what is a cooperative, why do cooperatives exist, which ...

2014

Formalization, Implementation, and Modeling of Institutional Controllers for Distributed Robotic Systems

Alcherio Martinoli, José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira

The work described is part of a long term program of introducing institutional robotics, a novel framework for the coordination of robot teams that stems from institutional economics concepts. Under the framework, institutions are cumulative sets of persis ...

Mit Press2014

Social-Aware Coordination of Multi-robot Systems Based on Institutions

Alcherio Martinoli, José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira

Institutional robotics (IR) is an approach to the coordination of multi-robot systems that draws inspiration from social sciences, namely from institutional economics. Using the concept of institution, it aims to provide a comprehensive strategy for specif ...

Springer International Publishing2014

Smart Microgrids as a Solution for Rural Electrification: Ensuring Long-Term Sustainability Through Cadastre and Business Models

Lorenzo Enrique Reyes Chamorro

The provision of energy at the local level by using renewable and local resources is increasingly acknowledged as a techno-economic solution for rural electrification. This work describes an approach for implementing microgrid projects at the institutional ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2014

Adapting to Socioeconomic Developments by Changing Rules in the Governance of Common Property Pastures in the Swiss Alps

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Ivo Philippe Baur

The common property meadows in the Swiss Alps have been managed by local self-organized governance systems since the Middle Ages, thus preventing their overuse. During the past century, socioeconomic developments, such as industrialization and rapid nonagr ...

Resilience Alliance2013

Enabling effective problem-oriented research for sustainable development

Michael Lehning

Environmental problems caused by human activities are increasing; biodiversity is disappearing at an unprecedented rate, soils are being irreversibly damaged, freshwater is increasingly in short supply, and the climate is changing. To reverse or even to re ...

2012

An Institutional Personal Learning Environment Enabler

Denis Gillet, Laurent Moccozet

In this paper, we first discuss the concept of Personal Learning Environment (PLE) with respect to higher- education institutions and Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs). This discussion rapidly confronts us to the place of the PLE and self-directed learn ...

2012

Why is it so difficult to translate innovation economics into useful and applicable policy prescriptions?

Dominique Foray

Abstract of the book: While the importance of innovation to economic development is widely understood, the conditions conducive to it remain the focus of much attention. This volume offers new theoretical and empirical contributions to fundamental question ...

National Bureau of Economic Research2012

Multi-level governance and transport policy: the case of local roads in Italy

Amanda Blomberg Stathopoulos

Italy is a multi-level polity where policymaking and implementation involves both public and private actors. Both territorial and functional decentralisation have an impact on the final results of policy making. In fact, territorial decentralisation implie ...

2012

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