Better understanding the innovative process of renewable energy technologies is important for tackling climate change. Though concentrating solar power is receiving growing interest, innovation studies so far have explored innovative activity in solar technologies in general, ignoring the major differences between solar photovoltaic and solar thermal technologies. This study relies on patent data...
Frauke G. Braun, Liz Hooper, Robert Wand, Petra Zloczysti
Dresden,
16.04.2010
| Institutions, Investments, and Regulation 2.0 - New Challenges for Energy Management and Policy: 5th Conference on Energy Economics and Technology - ENERDAY
Clemens Haftendorn, Franziska Holz, Christian von Hirschhausen
Dresden,
16.04.2010
| Institutions, Investments, and Regulation 2.0 - New Challenges for Energy Management and Policy: 5th Conference on Energy Economics and Technology - ENERDAY
Molin Huo, Thilo Grau, Karsten Neuhoff
Dresden,
16.04.2010
| Institutions, Investments, and Regulation 2.0 - New Challenges for Energy Management and Policy: 5th Conference on Energy Economics and Technology - ENERDAY
This paper provides an empirical demonstration for a practical approach of efficiency evaluation against the background of limited data availability in some regulated industries. Here, traditional DEA may result in a lack of discriminatory power when high numbers of variables but only limited observations are available. We apply PCA-DEA for radial efficiency measurement to US natural gas...
Maria Nieswand, Astrid Cullmann, Anne Neumann
Dresden,
16.04.2010
| Institutions, Investments, and Regulation 2.0 - New Challenges for Energy Management and Policy: 5th Conference on Energy Economics and Technology - ENERDAY
Wolf-Peter Schill
Dresden,
16.04.2010
| Institutions, Investments, and Regulation 2.0 - New Challenges for Energy Management and Policy: 5th Conference on Energy Economics and Technology - ENERDAY
Aleksandar Zaklan, Georg Zachmann, Anne Neumann
Dresden,
16.04.2010
| Institutions, Investments, and Regulation 2.0 - New Challenges for Energy Management and Policy: 5th Conference on Energy Economics and Technology - ENERDAY
This paper studies the cost structure of water distribution utilities in Germany. Stochastic cost frontier models are applied to an unbalanced panel of 371 observations of 72 companies in the period from 1998 to 2007. The results suggest that some utilities could reduce their costs by more than 20%. Water losses and elevation differences in a service area turn out to be significant cost drivers....
Michael Zschille, Matthias Walter
Luxemburg (Stadt), Luxemburg,
15.04.2010
- 17.04.2010| XVth Spring Meeting of Young Economists: SMYE '10
Silke Hüttel, Anne Margarian, Vanessa von Schlippenbach
Berlin,
15.04.2010
- 16.04.2010| Structural Change in Agriculture - Modeling Policy Impacts and Farm Strategies: 114th Seminar of the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE)
Building on new behavioral and institutional theories, using a data set of about 450 variables and augmenting the Sala-i-Martin definition of robustness, we find evidence in support of the hypothesis that the standard causes of the shadow economy (SE), taxes, the administrative burden and labor market regulations, are not per se crucial in determining the size of the SE. There are many other...
Ulrich Thießen
Potsdam,
15.04.2010
- 16.04.2010| Shadow Economy, Tax Policy, and the Labour Markets in an International Comparison: Options for Economic Policy: Workshop University of Potsdam, Faculty of Economics and Social Science
Peter Krause
Tutzing,
14.04.2010
- 16.04.2010| Politische Bildung - Fortbildungslehrgang für Seminarlehrkräfte in Staatsbürgerlicher Bildung: Tagung der Akademie für Politische Bildung Tutzing
This paper applies the Phillips and Sul (2007) method to test for convergence in stock returns to an extensive dataset including monthly stock price indices for five EU countries (Germany, France, the Netherlands, Ireland and the UK) as well as the US over the period 1973-2008. We carry out the analysis on both sectors and individual industries within sectors. As a first step, we use the Stock and...
Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Burcu Erdogan, Vladimir Kuzin
Izmir, Türkei,
14.04.2010
- 15.04.2010| International Student Conference: Izmir University of Economics
Martin Spieß, Martin Kroh
Bielefeld,
14.04.2010
- 17.04.2010| Conference on Statistical Analysis of Longitudinal / Panel Data Structures Arising from Complex Interdisciplinary Questions: Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung