Publications related to Government spending

Distributional justice, effectiveness, and costs of current and alternative solar PV incentive schemes in Switzerland

Like many other countries, Switzerland offers various incentives to promote residential solar PV, but not all households have equal access to them. Using a microsimulation approach based on merged data from the Swiss Household Budget Survey and Household E ...

2024

AIDRES: A database for the decarbonisation of the heavy industry in Europe

François Maréchal, Luc Girardin, Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Shivom Sharma, Julia Granacher, Meire Ellen Gorete Ribeiro Domingos, Rafael Amorim Leandro De Castro Amoedo, Yi Zhao

The AIDRES database aims to support the long-term objective of a fully integrated industrial strategy in the EU 27, providing a service to the European Commission and a catalogue for industries to understand the effectiveness, efficiency and cost of potent ...

Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria2023

Capturing trade-offs between daily scheduling choices

Michel Bierlaire, Timothy Michael Hillel, Janody Pougala

We propose a new modelling approach for daily activity scheduling which integrates the different daily scheduling choice dimensions (activity participation, location, schedule, duration and transportation mode) into a single optimisation problem. The funda ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

The cis-lunar ecosystem — A systems model and scenarios of the resource industry and its impact

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib

Lunar resources is one of the many new putative business models that may transform space logistics. Yet it competes with Earth-based resources, in a complex trade-off involving both tech development & socioeconomic dynamics. This study models the size vs. ...

2021

Fiscal Policy, Relative Prices and Net Exports in a Currency Union

Luisa Lambertini, Christian Pröbsting

This paper studies the effects of fiscal policy on net exports, the terms of trade and expenditure switching. Using data on government spending and consumption taxes for twelve euro area countries over 1996 to 2018, it shows that fiscal austerity shocks im ...

2020

Does Austerity Go Along With Internal Devaluations?

Luisa Lambertini, Christian Pröbsting

Cuts to government spending rather than increases in consumption taxes are statistically associated with internal devaluations in the euro area during the period 2010-2014. Countries that cut spending experienced a decline in nominal wages, rising net expo ...

2019

Does Austerity Go Along with Internal Devaluations?

Luisa Lambertini

Cuts to government spending rather than increases in consumption taxes are statistically associated with internal devaluations in the euro area during the period 2010-2014. Countries that cut spending experienced a decline in nominal wages, rising net expo ...

2019

Austerity in the Aftermath of the Great Recession

Cross-country differences in austerity, defined as government purchases below forecast, account for 75 percent of the observed cross-sectional variation in GDP in advanced economies during 2010-2014. Statistically, austerity is associated with lower GDP, l ...

2020

Necessity entrepreneurship and industry choice in new firm creation

Marc Gruber, Argyro Nikiforou

Research Summary Research on necessity entrepreneurship has generated important insights, yet it views necessity entrepreneurs in developed countries as one encompassing group of unemployed individuals-ignoring that the level of need is not uniform but ins ...

2019

A Scale-out Blockchain for Value Transfer with Spontaneous Sharding

Kelong Cong

Bitcoin, as well as many of its successors, require the whole transaction record to be reliably acquired by all nodes to prevent double-spending. Recently, many blockchains have been proposed to achieve scale-out throughput by letting nodes only acquire a ...

IEEE2018

A Linear-Quadratic Gaussian Approach to Dynamic Information Acquisition

Thomas Alois Weber, Viet Anh Nguyen

We consider optimal information acquisition for the control of linear discrete-time random systems with noisy observations and apply the findings to the problem of dynamically implementing emissions-reduction targets. The optimal policy, which is provided ...

2018

A mixed standard/custom design strategy to minimize cost and maximize efficiency for picohydro power potential harvesting

François Avellan, Elena Vagnoni, Loïc Andolfatto, Cécile Münch-Alligné

Harvesting the numerous small scale hydroelectric potential is a way to increase the sustainable hydraulic energy production in developed countries. The condition to meet economical profitability with pico power stations - below 25 kW - is to minimize the ...

2015

The influence of centrality on the global energy consumption in Swiss neighborhoods

Sophie Lufkin, Emmanuel Rey, Laure-Emmanuelle Perret Aebi

The objective of this research is to compare the energy consumption of seven recently built residential neighborhoods in the urban region of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, in order to identify the influence of centrality on total energy spending. Primary energy i ...

Elsevier2013

Grouping, pooling, and when bigger is better in visual crowding

Michael Herzog, Bilge Sayim, Mauro Manassi

In crowding, perception of a target is strongly deteriorated by nearby elements. Crowding is often explained by pooling models predicting that adding flankers increases crowding. In contrast, the centroid hypothesis proposes that adding flankers decreases ...

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology2012

The impact of fiscal-monetary policy interactions on government size and macroeconomic performance

Vincenzo Cuciniello

This paper analyzes the relationship between inflation, output and government size by reexamining the time inconsistency of optimal monetary and fiscal policies in a general equilibrium model with staggered timing structure for the acquisition of nominal m ...

2009