This paper discusses the problem of defining marginal costs when integer variables are present, in the context of short-term power auctions. Most of the proposals for price computation existing in the literature are concerned ...

This project seeks to investigate the Paggi case, the first and only company that currently adopts payments through the messaging application in Brazil. This payment model leveraged the critical mass of messaging application ...

Chile was the first country in Latin America to impose a tax on carbon-emitting electricity generators. However, the current regulation does not allow firms to include emission charges as costs for the dispatch and pricing ...

Payments for Environmental Services (PES) and conservation policies. A PES is an economic instrument that addresses an environmental externality through a variable payment, cash or in-kind. In here, providers or sellers ...

Un país no puede abastecerse totalmente, teniendo la necesidad de comprar y vender, en los términos de Comercio Internacional, de importar y exportar. La correcta filosofía del manejo del Comercio Internacional de cada ...

The public hospitals located to the Southwest of Bogotá received their financial resources during the period 1996-2000 mainly for providing health care to people without payment capacity, which belong to either the subsidized ...