Efficiency Measurement in Liberalized Electricity Markets: Using DEA to Evaluate Regulatory Action
Author: Philipp von Geymüller
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDie vorliegende kumulative Dissertation umfasst drei Arbeiten, in denen mit Hilfe der "Data Envelopment Analysis" (DEA), einer praktischen und flexiblen Methode mit Wurzeln im Operations Research, versucht wird, zur Klärung von drei entscheidenden Fragen beizutragen, die sich bei der weitgehend zum Standard gewordenen Price-Cap Regulierung ergeben. Diese Fragen sind: Erstens, das Verhältnis von Price-Cap Regulierung zu Investitionen, zweitens, das Verhältnis von Price-Cap Regulierung zu Qualität und drittens, die richtige Höhe der Kapitalkosten bei Price-Cap Regulierung. Ohne Beschränkung der Allgemeinheit konzentriert sich die Analyse dabei auf die Elektrizitätswirtschaft. (Autorenref.).
Author: Pierre Sauve
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2003-08-29
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 0821383434
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTrade in services, far more than trade in goods, is affected by a variety of domestic regulations, ranging from qualification and licensing requirements in professional services to pro-competitive regulation in telecommunications services. Experience shows that the quality of regulation strongly influences the consequences of trade liberalization. WTO members have agreed that a central task in the ongoing services negotiations will be to develop a set of rules to ensure that domestic regulations support rather than impede trade liberalization. Since these rules are bound to have a profound impact on the evolution of policy, particularly in developing countries, it is important that they be conducive to economically rational policy-making. This book addresses two central questions: What impact can international trade rules on services have on the exercise of domestic regulatory sovereignty? And how can services negotiations be harnessed to promote and consolidate domestic policy reform across highly diverse sectors? The book, with contributions from several of the world's leading experts in the field, explores a range of rule-making challenges arising at this policy interface, in areas such as transparency, standards and the adoption of a necessity test for services trade. Contributions also provide an in-depth look at these issues in the key areas of accountancy, energy, finance, health, telecommunications and transportation services.
Author: Liliane Pintelon
Publisher: ACCO
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9033462516
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the last decades maintenance management has evolved from a somewhat neglected function into a full-fledged business function in the industry as well as in the service sector.This book provides a structured approach to maintenance management. It covers maintenance strategy decisions, resource management, assessment system design, etc. Decision support models and tools in these areas are discussed from the theoretical point of view and illustrated by numerous examples and case studies.Due to its concept the book can be interesting for students as well as practitioners.This book is the successor of Maintenance Management (2000), which gave an introduction in the field.
Author: Robert P. Taylor
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2008-02-08
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0821373056
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile energy efficiency projects could partly meet new energy demand more cheaply than new supplies, weak economic institutions in developing and transitional economies impede developing and financing energy efficiency retrofits. This book analyzes these difficulties, suggests a 3-part model for projectizing and financing energy efficiency retrofits, and presents thirteen case studies to illustrate the issues and principles involved.
Author: Christopher Weare
Publisher: Public Policy Instit. of CA
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 1582130647
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ioannis Nicolaos Kessides
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKElectricity, natural gas, telecommunications, railways, and water supply, are often vertically and horizontally integrated state monopolies. This results in weak services, especially in developing and transition economies, and for poor people. Common problems include low productivity, high costs, bad quality, insufficient revenue, and investment shortfalls. Many countries over the past two decades have restructured, privatized and regulated their infrastructure. This report identifies the challenges involved in this massive policy redirection. It also assesses the outcomes of these changes, as well as their distributional consequences for poor households and other disadvantaged groups. It recommends directions for future reforms and research to improve infrastructure performance, identifying pricing policies that strike a balance between economic efficiency and social equity, suggesting rules governing access to bottleneck infrastructure facilities, and proposing ways to increase poor people's access to these crucial services.
Author: Deyi Li
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2017-05-18
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 1498776272
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book develops a framework that shows how uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (AI) expands and generalizes traditional AI. It explores the uncertainties of knowledge and intelligence. The authors focus on the importance of natural language – the carrier of knowledge and intelligence, and introduce efficient physical methods for data mining amd control. In this new edition, we have more in-depth description of the models and methods, of which the mathematical properties are proved strictly which make these theories and methods more complete. The authors also highlight their latest research results.
Author: Martin Kellermann
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2019-04-09
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1464813728
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a modern world with rapidly growing international trade, countries compete less based on the availability of natural resources, geographical advantages, and lower labor costs and more on factors related to firms' ability to enter and compete in new markets. One such factor is the ability to demonstrate the quality and safety of goods and services expected by consumers and confirm compliance with international standards. To assure such compliance, a sound quality infrastructure (QI) ecosystem is essential. Jointly developed by the World Bank Group and the National Metrology Institute of Germany, this guide is designed to help development partners and governments analyze a country's quality infrastructure ecosystems and provide recommendations to design and implement reforms and enhance the capacity of their QI institutions.
Author: Leonardo Meeus
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2018-03-30
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 1786436094
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe UK model of incentive regulation of power grids was at one time the most advanced, and elements of it were adopted throughout the EU. This model worked well, particularly in the context of limited investment and innovation, a single and strong regulatory authority, and limited coordination between foreign grid operators. This enlightening book shows that since 2010 the whole context has changed and regulation has had to catch-up and evolve. The EU is entering a wave of investment, and an era of new services and innovation which has created growing tensions between national regulatory authorities in terms of coordinating technical standards and distribution systems. This is being played out against an increasingly disruptive backdrop of digitzation, new market platforms and novel business models.