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Resource Rent Taxation and Benchmarking
(2009)CEPE Working PaperThe electricity generation in Switzerland is mainly based on hydropower (55% of total production). The exploitation of water in the hydropower sector can generate significant so-called resource rents. These are defined by the surplus return above the value of capital, labor, materials and energy used to exploit hydropower. In Switzerland, hydropower producers pay to the State a fixed fee per kW gross capacity. With this ...Working Paper -
Using stochastic frontier analysis for the access price regulation of electricity networks
(2002)QuadernoWorking Paper -
Uncertainty Breeds Decreasing Impatience
(2009)Working paper seriesFuture events are uncertain by their very nature. Therefore, people's risk preferences are likely to play a role in the valuation of allegedly guaranteed future outcomes. We show that future uncertainty conjointly with people's proneness to nonlinear probability weighting generates a unifying framework for explaining many anomalies in intertemporal choice, such as hyperbolic discounting and subadditivity of discount factors. Moreover, our ...Working Paper -
Short-Circuiting Reform
(2007)Visiting Research Fellow PapersBoth Georgia and Kyrgyzstan have recently experienced a change in regime (2003 and 2005 respectively), due in part to the public's dissatisfaction with mismanagement of the energy sector. Electricity outages, particularly in Georgia, became visible proof that the government’s ability to provide goods and services was literally ‘short circuited’. This paper argues that the mismanagement of the electricity sector in both states was a ...Working Paper -
Characteristics of demand for antibiotics in primary care: an almost ideal demand system approach
(2007)QuaderniWorking Paper -
Entrapped Again
(2008)UCD Dublin European Institute Working PaperThe membership of Turkey is one of the most controversial external relations issues of the EU. In a comparison of four instances of decision-making on accession negotiations with Turkey between 1997 and 2006, this paper explains why and under which conditions Turkey has progressed on the way to EU membership in spite of persistent and increasing divergence of membership preferences. In line with the entrapment hypothesis of normative ...Working Paper -
Economies of Scale and Efficiency Measurement in Switzerland's Nursing Homes
(2008)QuadernoWorking Paper -
Who forms local institutions?
(2006)ZEF Discussion Papers on Development PolicyParticipatory approaches aim at achieving representation of a broad segment of local communities, including poor and marginalized groups in natural resource management. Focusing on the case of Joint Forest Management (JFM) in India, this paper analyzes three levels of participation (attendance of decisive meetings, membership in executive committees, and influence on decisions taken) and their determinants. A conceptual model of the ...Working Paper -
Institutional Regimes for Sustainable Collective Housing
(2009)Working Paper de l’IDHEAP ~ Collective Housing Stocks No 4Working Paper -
Migration due to the tsunami in Sri Lanka
(2006)ZEF Discussion Papers on Development PolicyTo achieve a better understanding of the diverse vulnerabilities of different social groups affected by the tsunami in December 2004 in Sri Lanka, a survey of 500 households in the Sri Lankan urban area of Galle has been conducted in cooperation with several institutes under the direction of the Institute of Environment and Human Security of the United Nations University (UNU-EHS). An important aim of the project is to analyze the ...Working Paper