Some US states have introduced measures to increase voter participation. I develop a formal model of elections to study how these measures affect political outcomes. I find that at high enough levels, measures to increase turnout lead to candidates converging at the median voter’s ideal point, as candidates switch from choosing policies that motivate their partisan base to competing over centri...

This article uses a microsimulation model to estimate how freezing all remaining private-sector and one-third of all public-sector defined benefit (DB) pension plans over the next 5 years would affect retirement incomes of baby boomers. If frozen plans were supplemented with new or enhanced defined contribution (DC) retirement plans, there would be more losers than winners, and average family i...

Self-criticism of physicians and patient participation are the pillars of modern medical ethics and medical programmes. Patients expect risk minimisation from physicians, mostly without realising how much they could actively do themselves in this respect. But what about the willingness of German people to take risks, how high is it really at present? Direct empirical data are not available, but...

This paper proposes a novel control strategy in which Renewable Energy Sources (RES) considered new Dynamic Virtual Power Plant (DVPP) concept directly participate to Secondary Frequency Control (SFC). allows full participation of these generators SFC, i.e., the same manner as classic synchronous by fulfilling identical specifications from both and contractual points view. An internal real-time...

Background: Energy communities and local electricity markets (e.g., as peer-to-peer trading) are on the rise due to increasingly decentralized generation favorable adjustment of legal framework in many European countries. Methods: This work applies a bi-level optimization model for dynamic participation trading determine optimal p...