This report discusses the administrative aspects connected to the introduction of electricity storage in the energy system. First, the macro-economic aspects of utilizing storage facilities are discussed, and the possible benefits of storage in the electricity system are summarized. Next, the discussion focuses on the administrative aspects. In particular, the regulation system of the Dutch ele...

The development and management of new technologies is fundamental to the manufacturing sector as a core operational initiative. Managers of a new technology are increasingly pressurised to consider the economic, environmental, and social impacts associated with the life cycle of the technology (and product) during decision-making – i.e. the overall sustainability of the technology. At present, ...

This paper provides a review of the economic literature on social security systems and of practical experiences with building social security institutions. The focus is on the design of the institutions, and on the complicated relation between social security, economic welfare and economic growth at the macro-level. The aim of this review is to provide lessons for building social security schem...

The role of the welfare state in the post-war industrialized economies has recently become a major topic. Using a Kaleckian framework we consider an economy where investment depends positively on the rate of return on capital and negatively on the rate of employment. This allows for a possible integration of Kalecki’s (1943) analysis of the political aspects of full employment. We use Okun’s la...

The EURACE project was one of the important research collaborations in the field of agent-based modeling of economic systems. Its target was to create an agent-based model and tools aimed at policy makers for use in macro-economic modelling and economic policy design at the European level. In this paper we report experiences and progress from the EURACE project, and summarize problems that need...

To fully exploit the benefits of heterogeneous network (HetNet), in which macro BSs (base stations) and small BSs coexist, the intercell interference mitigation and radio resource management has attracted general attention. We propose a cross-tier cooperative transmission strategy with precoding at downlink OFDMA resource block level, supported by macro BSs and small BSs ,to reduce the intercel...

the long term goal attaining of economic system management requires the establishment of a dynamic framework to integrate multiple perspectives. this article considers the problem of economic development in macro level. as economic systems are complex adaptive systems composed of numerous numbers of components of dynamic and multidimensional nature, dynamics method is applied in this research. ...