| schema:description 3 | "内容記述: I. Introduction: Background, Purpose, and Scope; An Overview of Theoretical Foundations and Method: Revival of the Engineering Approach to Production Analysis; An Integration of Production and Investment Theory in a Dynamic Framework; Assumptions and Limitations; Part I. A REVIEW OF PRODUCTION FUNCTION ANALYSIS AND AN INTEGRATION WITH INVESTMENT THEORY: II. The Theory and Empirical Analysis of Production Functions: A Review and Synthesis: Definition and General Considerations; Functional Separability and Multi-Level Production; Empirical Approaches to Production Functions: The Engineering Approach; The Statistical Approach; The Pseudo-Data Approach; III. An Integration of Production and Investment Theory: A Suggested Approach to the Dynamic Demand for Capital: Neoclassical Analysis of Inout Demand Functions; The Derived Demand for Capital Inputs: Integrating Capital Inputs into the Theory of Production; Stock-Flow Derived Demand Functions; An Investment Model Approach to Capital Inputs: Evaluation of Investment: Static Rules; The Pure Timing Problem: Na?ve Dynamics; Dynamic Derived Demand Functions: An Integration of Production and Investment Theory; Extensions and More General Models; Part II. ESTIMATING PRODUCTION AND DYNAMIC DEMAND FUNCTIONS FOR SOLAR PROCESSES: EMPIRICAL ESTIMATES OF THE IMPACT OF TAX INCENTIVES: IV. Estimating a Production Function for Solar Processes: Empirical Estimates of the Impact of Tax Incentives: The Theory and Performance of Solar Thermal Processes: Instantaneous Flat-Plate Collector Output; Energy Storage and System Performance; An Engineering Model for Predicting Long-Term Solar Process Performance; Developing an Economic Production Function from an Engineering Solar Process Model; Appendix IV.A. Monthly Solar Radiation Estimates; Appendix IV..B. Pseudo-Data Approaches to the Estimation of Solar Process Production Functions; V. Dynamic Demand Functions for Solar Energy Processes: Production of a Utilized DHW Energy Aggregate; The Cost-Minimizing Derived Demand for Solar Processes: The Static Foundations; The Dynamic Nature of the Derived Demand for Solar Processes; Appendix V.A. Solution to an Explicit Production Function Using Cardan's Formula; Appendix V.B. Derivation of the Present; Discounted Fuel Cost and the User Cost of Capital: Derivation of the Present Discounted Fuel Cost; Derivation of the User Cost of Capital; VI. Estimates of the Dynamic Demand for Solar Processes in the Residential and Commercial Building Sectors: Climatic Location, Fuel Choice, and Scenario Overview; The Production Function; Dynamic Derived Demand Equations; Final Energy Requirements; Conventional Fuel Princes, Growth Rates, and Discount Rates; Base Case Scenario: Results: Estimates of the Cost Per Unit of Solar Capital Intersector Analysis; Interfuel Analysis; Variable-Output Demand Functions; Accelerated Scenarios: Results: Federal and State Tax Incentives: Accelerated Scenarios; The Effect of Tax Incentives on the Cost per Unit of Solar Capital; Intersector-Interfuel Analysis: Acceleration Scenario; Intersector-Interfuel Analysis: Full Acceleration; Variable-Output Demand Functions; Effect of the Discount Rate on the Dynamic Demand for Solar Processes; Appendix VI.A. Climate Data, Design Data, and Estimates of the Production Function Parameters for Solar Processes; VII. Conclusions and Policy Implications: Production Analysis; Dynamic Demand Analysis; Empirical Estimates of the Demand for Solar Processes and the Effect of Tax Policy....(more)" |