We examine whether and how collusive coercive forms of corporate corruption influence firm value. Our identification strategy exploits (i) the exogenous criminal prosecutions regional government officials as part China’s anti-corruption campaign demand-side shocks (ii) unique reporting entertainment travel costs by Chinese firms supply-side disclosure corruption-related spending. Among for whic...

Energy communities (ECs) are widely recognised for their potential to generate renewable energy. By contrast, the capacity of ECs reduce energy demand and foster flexibility has attracted little attention date, despite theoretical do so. To address this gap, we apply three perspectives – social representations theory, actor-network business models analysis nine case studies based in six Europea...

This paper presents an approach centered on a time-sensitive Actor framework suited to the modeling, analysis and implementation of multimedia systems. A distributed multimedia system consists of a collection of autonomous media actors interacting to one another to fulfil a common goal, e.g., interactive videoconference, video recording on-demand, etc. Timing synchronization activities rest on ...

Demand side management is a promising alternative to offer flexibility power systems with high shares of variable renewable energy sources. Numerous industries possess large demand potentials but accounting for them in system analysis and modelling restricted by the availability their data, which are usually confidential. In this study, methodology synthetize anonymized hourly electricity consu...

There is an increasing demand for a new paradigm to improve flood mitigation decision processes that calls for risk reduction strategies at several levels. This demand may gain ground only if dialogue is encouraged among different perspectives, disciplines and knowledge types. The aim of this paper is to explore new routes to improve flood mitigation decision processes. A growing body of eviden...

Real-time pricing schemes make the customers to feel the energy price volatility and improve their load profiles. However, these schemes have no significant effect on demand-side uncertainty reduction. In this paper, considering smart grid infrastructures and smart building Energy Management System (EMS), a new real-time pricing scheme is presented to reduce the uncertainty of demand-side. In t...