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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"wholesale prices"”.
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An Analysis of Residential Electricity Supply and Demand in California During the Summer of 2000
… utilities would procure their supplies at market prices in an auction or spot market; residential customers could choose their electric supplier; and residential rates were frozen at 10% below their June 1996 levels. The rate freeze was to remain in effect until the later of March 31, 2002, or the …
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Strategic Physical Withholding of Renewable Energy Generators
… power by insulating individual generators from wholesale prices; however, since generators under PPAs typically bid into the wholesale market and influence competitive prices, they may actually encourage renewable withholding if contract prices are sufficiently low and the parent firm’s …
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THE ECONOMICS OF MOBILE INTERNATIONAL ROAMING
… witnessed a downward trend in mobile domestic prices. On the contrary, international roaming prices remained reluctant to follow the domestic trend. In Europe, the service has been regulated with price cap since 2007, and regulation is maintained for years to come. The existing literature on …
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Assortment planning in supply chains
… must sell their products through a single wholesaler in a geographical area in the U.S., which is referred to as a two-tier supply chain. In such a two-tier supply chain, manufacturers compete by assortments and/or wholesale prices. The wholesaler sets the optimal market prices of products …
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The British Energy Market Reform: Carbon Prices, Retail Tariffs, and Cost Pass-through
… sector. Chapter 4 studies competition in the wholesale electricity market, to investigate the existence of market power. Chapter 5 examines the impact of dynamic retail tariffs and demand response, which are possible instruments to secure electricity supply. Chapter 6 concludes. …
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Essays on gasoline price spikes, environmental regulation of gasoline content, and incentives for refinery operation
Since 1999, regional retail and wholesale gasoline markets in the United States have experienced significant price volatility, both intertemporally and across geographic markets. In particular, gasoline prices in California, Illinois and Wisconsin have spiked occasionally well above gasoline prices …
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An empirical study of advertised retail meat prices in a metropolitan area
… however, concentrated solely on advertised meat prices of all major retail chains and affiliates in the St. Louis metropolitan area. Weekly data for the advertised meat prices from different firms were obtained for a total of thirteen (1960-72) years by consulting the appropriate newspaper files …
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Risk implications of the deployment of renewables for investments in electricity generation
… the impacts of three different bidding rules on wholesale prices and on the remuneration of units in power systems with a significant share of renewable generation. The effects of bidding rules are distinguished from the effects of regulatory uncertainty that can unexpectedly increase renewable …
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Three essays on the UK Electricity Market: Risk Premium,Uncertainty of Supply and Forecasting
… related particularly to the UK electricity wholesale market. The first issue is whether the electricity forward market offers risk premia to compensate for the uncertainty of renewable supply. The empirical results suggest that the UK electricity forward market provides risk premia, which is …
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The structure of equilibrium marketing channels: Common versus exclusive retailers
… Important marketing decisions, such as prices and the level of promotional services, are often delegated to members of the marketing channel with divergent individual incentives. In this dissertation, I study equilibria in marketing channels in a differentiated product duopoly consisting …
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Coordination and competition in resource-constrained channels
… versus competition and its effects on profit and prices. Throughout the thesis, we focus on capacity-constrained supply channels, motivated by the fact that most real-world supply chains have physical or monetary constraints.In the first part of this thesis, we show that when a supply channel is …
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Edgeworth price cycles in retail gasoline markets
… reset each new cycle by significantly raising prices. The one-time average price increase is 5.6 cents per liter, or 170% of the average margin. The magnitude of the increase is decreasing in the previous markup and increasing in expected future wholesale prices. I show that small independent …
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Field experiments in retailing
… methods for controlling for the endogeneity of prices in non-experimental studies. Measuring price sensitivity in the historical data without accounting for endogeneity performs poorly. Instrumental variables estimates with commodity prices as instruments and regression discontinuity estimates …
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Essays On Wind Energy Integration And The Costs Of Intermittency
… production and marginal value of power. If spot prices are market-determined, this covariance can be measured using daily price and pro- duction data. I document that the covariance becomes increasing negative as wind penetration increases within European bidding zones, which does not occur for …
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The Effect of Decarbonization Factors on Deeply Decarbonized Electrical Systems: Texas Case Study
… (SCOE); installed power capacity; storage needs; wholesale prices distribution and system operation. Results show that: (1) under no CO2 constraints (a "No Policy" scenario), the power system tends to decarbonize itself to a level of 72%, driven by assumed cost projections for 2050 and the high …
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On-farm fractionation of milk components
… on experimental data from the PFR and realistic wholesale prices for LF and LP ($400 and $150/kg respectively) showed that PFR-based processing is economically viable if the farmer is paid for the LF and LP produced as well as the bulk milk. This system would have a payback period of …
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A Need for Government Intervention? Prescription Drug Prices and Retail Mark-ups
… to ease the burden of skyrocketing prescription prices for citizens 65 and older. While much of the discussion has focused on the impact on Medicare and Medicaid, the search for the source of high prescription drug prices has possible benefits for all patients. Unfortunately, the vast majority of …
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Crítica de la regulación sectorial de telecomunicaciones desde el enfoque económico austriaco: regulación para la innovación en el contexto del despliegue de redes de nueva generación (NGNs)
… (retail offer control, cost orientation of wholesale prices, ladder of investment approach) and even on all procedural issues deriving from antitrust (market definition, identification of dominant operators). After establishing the problems caused on telecommunication regulation by the …
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Avoided Water Cost of Electricity Generation for Solar PV and Wind Technologies in Southern California
… Southern California (MET), which is the largest wholesale supplier of surface water in the United States. Water withdrawals are addressed but not included in the monetization of water consumption. Case studies of specific power plant’s water costs are used for comparison and demonstrate variation …
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Three essays on spatial, vertical price transmission and asymmetric supply response in livestock sectors
… New Zealand, and Japan) by using monthly beef prices. The estimates of the magnitude and the short-run speed of adjustment for one price to the shocks of another between two countries is useful information in assessing how well change in one price is transmitted to another and what types of …