Time-of-use and real-time spot pricing tariffs in conjunction with direct load control of water heaters was offered to residential electricity consumers in a large-scale demand response experiment. Hourly data from the experiment on consumption, temperature, wind, and hours of daylight comprise a large panel data set, which are analysed with a fixed effects regression model. Price responses are...

We examine the interaction between trade in goods and market power in domestic trade and distribution sectors. Theory suggests a linkage between service-sector competition and goods trade, one supported by econometrics involving import patterns of 21 OECD countries. This points to significant linkages between effective market-access conditions for goods and the structure of the service sector. ...

This position paper lists reasons why the results in software maintenance are so diicult to assess and use, proposes three possible countermeasures what and why, and shortly discusses the roadblocks. Note: This paper is written in a rather apodictic tone, but that is for brevity only. Why we have a mire of evidence When one dives into the literature on software maintenance , the amount of sugge...

flowing the uruguay round negotiations (1986-1994), the world trade system has evolved. on the basis of agreements of this round, world trade organization (wto) members have been obligated to decrease tariff obstacles, non-tariff restrains and trade supports. the use of trade liberalizing policies (tariff obstacles and non-tariff restrains) by members and observing countries has had significant...

This report presents the basic foundations for the verification by means of model checking techniques of formal specifications expressed in RAISE. During this work, third party model checkers are briefly discussed and analysed for suitability under two main criteria: (a) syntactic/semantic restrictions imposed by the model checker’s language and (b) the applied representation technique for the ...

In this study, the implications of the government’s tariffs on optimal pricing decisions in a dual-channel SC with one manufacturer and one retailer by taking into account the retailer services are examined. First, the best response strategies of retailer and manufacturer have obtained following the government’s tariffs by using a Stackelberg game model. Then, the government problem has modeled...