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We couple top-down and bottom-up models to analyse electricity markets. We simulate energy policies under alternative regulatory assumptions. We shows that market liberalisation affects the links between generation costs and user prices. We show that the c ...
The Swiss Energy Strategy 2050 pursues an ambitious transition to a more renew- able and efficient energy future, combining CO2 and energy saving targets with a phase-out of nuclear electricity generation. This transition poses challenges not only for the ...
2013
Infrastructure can be wielded as a means of promoting the common good or as an institutional weapon of exploitation. While the highways, bridges and dams funded by international economic interests and built in outlying regions like the Amazon play a role t ...
2015
This review presents an overview of the initial targeted chemical processing stages for conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to platform molecules that serve as intermediates for the production of carbon-based fuels and chemicals. We identify four classes ...
The public sector in Western Europe has experienced a shift from state-centric public governance to private and public-private governance since the end of the twentieth century. Debates in the political sciences have focused on whether a „higher‟ level of ...
This is the first empirical attempt to provide evidence for the interaction between firm-level total factor productivity and trade liberalization as key determinants of firm-level job destruction caused by trade. Employing an original US firm-level data, w ...
Low-carbon energy innovation and implementation is essential to combat climate change, promote economic competitiveness, and achieve energy security. Our study of clean energy patenting in the United States is undertaken to elicit fundamental trends and im ...
Network industries, such as electricity, railways and air transport, are very complex technical, economic, and political systems in which the interplay of technology and institutions has a significant impact on performance. While the performance of the net ...
In the context of liberalization in the public utility sectors, performance criteria have mainly focused on efficiency and effectiveness. However, the realization that restructuring based on the latter criteria has not been consistently successful in the w ...
New entrants in postal markets usually set up delivery networks by concentrating on urban areas and large business customers. This implies that they operate their network highly centralized - at least in early phases of entrance. ...
