The demand for life insurance in a heterogeneous-agent life cycle economy with joint decisions
In: The Geneva risk and insurance review, Band 44, Heft 2, S. 176-206
ISSN: 1554-9658
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In: The Geneva risk and insurance review, Band 44, Heft 2, S. 176-206
ISSN: 1554-9658
In: Journal of post-Keynesian economics, Band 16, Heft 3, S. 371-390
ISSN: 1557-7821
In: Environmental science & policy, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 75-84
ISSN: 1462-9011
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In: International Journal of Social Science and Economic Research, Band 9, Heft 5, S. 1583-1599
ISSN: 2455-8834
The cycle industry in India since independence has faced a number of issues, both good and bad. The recent adversities with respect to Chinese imports and decreasing demands have led most of the profitable companies to look for alternatives products under the same domain. This diversification will help in the firms' in maintaining their profit margins.
In: American economic review, Band 110, Heft 10, S. 3030-3070
ISSN: 1944-7981
We propose a new strategy for dissecting the macroeconomic time series, provide a template for the business-cycle propagation mechanism that best describes the data, and use its properties to appraise models of both the parsimonious and the medium-scale variety. Our findings support the existence of a main business-cycle driver but rule out the following candidates for this role: technology or other shocks that map to TFP movements; news about future productivity; and inflationary demand shocks of the textbook type. Models aimed at accommodating demand-driven cycles without a strict reliance on nominal rigidity appear promising. (JEL C22, E10, E32)
Last mile is known as the last leg of the delivery process, which is the most expensive and time-consuming part per kilometer. The most common last mile deliveries are postal packages, groceries and take away meals. Recently, there has been a growing interest and implementation of sidewalk autonomous delivery robots. These robots travel roughly at the speed of pedestrians (6 km/h). A high-speed (15 km/h) delivery robot design is proposed for reducing the time, energy and carbon footprint of deliveries. The preliminary design of the delivery robot powertrain is based on worst-case scenario analysis and Monte Carlo simulations with synthetic driving cycles. Synthetic driving cycles were used because there are no open data available of delivery robots. Thus, the procedure presented in this paper is a general approach for cases where there is no precedent application and/or no data are available. The synthetic driving cycles are based on start and end location of food-delivery services in Helsinki, Finland. Basedon the simulations, the crucial factors contributing to energy demand and its variation were analyzed. Carbon footprint of the delivered package over distance of the design is compared to existing wheeled delivery robots and quadrupeds. The motivation of the work is that showcasing the energy savings of higher speed aids government officials in their decision-making regarding delivery robot regulations. As a result of the simulations, higher operation speed lowered the energy consumption by over 40%. ; Peer reviewed
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Last mile is known as the last leg of the delivery process, which is the most expensive and time-consuming part per kilometer. The most common last mile deliveries are postal packages, groceries and take away meals. Recently, there has been a growing interest and implementation of sidewalk autonomous delivery robots. These robots travel roughly at the speed of pedestrians (6 km/h). A high-speed (15 km/h) delivery robot design is proposed for reducing the time, energy and carbon footprint of deliveries. The preliminary design of the delivery robot powertrain is based on worst-case scenario analysis and Monte Carlo simulations with synthetic driving cycles. Synthetic driving cycles were used because there are no open data available of delivery robots. Thus, the procedure presented in this paper is a general approach for cases where there is no precedent application and/or no data are available. The synthetic driving cycles are based on start and end location of food-delivery services in Helsinki, Finland. Based on the simulations, the crucial factors contributing to energy demand and its variation were analyzed. Carbon footprint of the delivered package over distance of the design is compared to existing wheeled delivery robots and quadrupeds. The motivation of the work is that showcasing the energy savings of higher speed aids government officials in their decision-making regarding delivery robot regulations. As a result of the simulations, higher operation speed lowered the energy consumption by over 40%.
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In: The Australian economic review, Band 45, Heft 4, S. 497-506
ISSN: 1467-8462
AbstractThis article provides an overview of the burgeoning academic literature on price dynamics and price cycles in retail petrol markets. I first present evidence of petrol price cycles and studies that describe what types of petrol markets tend to exhibit price cycles. I further discuss empirical investigations of firms' pricing strategies in cycling markets. In light of the empirics, I outline theories of competition and consumer demand in petrol markets that help us understand various facets of petrol price cycles.
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w27184
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In: Corvinus journal of sociology and social policy, Band 10, Heft 2, S. 51-70
ISSN: 2061-5558
In: University Ca' Foscari of Venice, Dept. of Economics Research Paper Series No. 09/WP/2017
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In: IMF Working Paper No. 15/15
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