Nicolas Boccard

University of Girona - Department of Economics

Associate Professor

FCEE, Campus de Montilivi

Girona, 17071

Spain

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1.

Disaster Risk

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 12 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 28 Nov 2020
Nicolas Boccard
University of Girona - Department of Economics
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Natural Disaster; Economic Cost; Economic Growth; Developing Countries

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Capacity Factor of Wind Power: Realized Values vs. Estimates

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 19 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 19 Jan 2016
Nicolas Boccard
University of Girona - Department of Economics
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Electricity, Renewables, Planning

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The Cost of Nuclear Electricity: France after Fukushima

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 13 Nov 2013
Nicolas Boccard
University of Girona - Department of Economics
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Economic Properties of Wind Power: A European Assessment

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 19 Oct 2008
Nicolas Boccard
University of Girona - Department of Economics
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Electricity, Renewables, Network Externalities, Industrial Organization

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Ranking athletes and teams across epochs

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 10 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2023
Nicolas Boccard
University of Girona - Department of Economics
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Sports, Network, Pairwise Comparisons, Multi-criteria Decision Making

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Equilibrium Vertical Differentiation in a Bertrand Model with Capacity Precommitment

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 11 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 08 Oct 2009
Xavier Wauthy and Nicolas Boccard
University St. Louis and University of Girona - Department of Economics
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vertical differentiation, capacity, Bertrand competition

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The Potential Wellbeing of Nations: Conceptualization and Measurement

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 04 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 12 Sep 2022
Nicolas Boccard
University of Girona - Department of Economics
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Human Development, Wellbeing, Composite Indices, Voting, Condorcet, Social Choice

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Nuclear Power vs. Renewables: a scale perspective

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 10 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 14 Jan 2022
Nicolas Boccard
University of Girona - Department of Economics
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Nuclear Reactor; Wind Turbine; Solar Photovoltaic; Electricity Generation; Overnight Cost

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On Efficiency, Concentration and Welfare

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 01 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 24 Nov 2009
Nicolas Boccard
University of Girona - Department of Economics
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Merger, Efficiency, Concentration, Welfare, Antitrust, Competition

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Import Quotas Foster Product Imitation in Vertically Differentiated Duopolies

CEREC DP 2000/01
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 27 Apr 2001
Xavier Wauthy and Nicolas Boccard
University St. Louis and University of Girona - Department of Economics
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International Trade, Quality, Optimal Quota, Price Competition

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Entry under Capacity Limitation and Vertical Differentiation: Return of the Judo Economics

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 12 Nov 2008
Xavier Wauthy and Nicolas Boccard
University St. Louis and University of Girona - Department of Economics
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Entry, Quality, Differentiation, Bertrand-Edgeworth Competition

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Safety along the Energy Chain

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 18 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2018
Nicolas Boccard
University of Girona - Department of Economics
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Energy-related severe accident; Comparative risk assessment; Wind Power

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On Royalty Licensing

Number of pages: 3 Posted: 13 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 30 Jun 2010
Nicolas Boccard
University of Girona - Department of Economics
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Patent licensing, Royalty, Cournot Oligopoly

14.

The Pursuit of Happiness

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 30 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 26 May 2017
Nicolas Boccard
University of Girona - Department of Economics
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Well-Being, Happiness, Human Development, Economic Development, Quality of Life, Environment

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Duality of Welfare and Profit Maximization

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 18 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 30 Jun 2010
Nicolas Boccard
University of Girona - Department of Economics
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Duality, Welfare, Regulation, Ramsey-Boiteux

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Regulating Quality by Regulating Quantity: A Case against Minimum Quality Standards

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 10 Nov 2008
Nicolas Boccard and Xavier Wauthy
University of Girona - Department of Economics and University St. Louis
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quality, minimum quality standards, price competition

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Commodities & Sustainability

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 28 May 2021 Last Revised: 10 Aug 2021
Nicolas Boccard
University of Girona - Department of Economics
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Commodities; Energy; Environment; Climate; Growth

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Solar Rebound - The Unintended Consequences of Subsidies

CESifo Working Paper No. 7963
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 06 Dec 2019
Axel Gautier and Nicolas Boccard
University of Liège - Research Center on Public and Population Economics and University of Girona - Department of Economics
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rebound effect, solar PV, net metering

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Electoral Inequity

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 14 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 30 Nov 2020
Nicolas Boccard
University of Girona - Department of Economics
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Election, Divisor method, Equity, d’Hondt, Sainte-Laguë

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Ocean Shipping Cost as a proxy of Real Economic Activity

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 02 Oct 2020
Nicolas Boccard
University of Girona - Department of Economics
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Global Business Cycle, Shipping, Commodity Market, Vector Auto-Regression

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The Growth of Computational Services

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 09 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 19 Jan 2016
Nicolas Boccard
University of Girona - Department of Economics
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computer, productivity, Hedonic Pricing

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On the Prevalence of Forest Fires in Spain

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 12 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2022
Nicolas Boccard
University of Girona - Department of Economics
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Forest Fire, Disaster, Climate Change, Economic Growth

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Audit Competition in Insurance Oligopolies

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 11 Sep 2002
Nicolas Boccard and Patrick Legros
University of Girona - Department of Economics and Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) - European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES)
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Oligopoly, insurance fraud, audit

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Variability and Intermittency of Renewable Energy Sources

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 01 Jun 2022
Nicolas Boccard
University of Girona - Department of Economics
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Electricity, power market, renewables, variable energy sources, residual load, capacity factor

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Enforcing Domestic Quality Dominance Through Quotas

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 29 Apr 2005
Nicolas Boccard and Xavier Wauthy
University of Girona - Department of Economics and University St. Louis
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Quality Choice, Sales Restriction and the Mode of Competition

Manchester School, Vol. 74, No. 1, pp. 64-84, January 2006
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 03 Apr 2006
Nicolas Boccard and Xavier Wauthy
University of Girona - Department of Economics and University St. Louis
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Bourgeois Energy Transition

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 18 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 23 Mar 2022
Nicolas Boccard
University of Girona - Department of Economics
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Ecology; Environment; Election; Manifesto; Energy Transition; Kuznets

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Valuable Football Players, Where Do We Find Them?

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 04 Oct 2022
Nicolas Boccard
University of Girona - Department of Economics
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Football; Sport Economics; Market Value

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Greater Male Variability: A Large Scale Test

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 12 Dec 2022
Nicolas Boccard
University of Girona - Department of Economics
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Gender, Variability, Sex, Anthropometry, Trait

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Economic Implications of Wind Power Intermittency

Encyclopedia of Energy, Natural Resource, and Environmental Economics, Shogren, J.F., (ed.) Amsterdam: Elsevier, volume 1, pp. 173-183, 2013
Posted: 19 Jan 2016
Nicolas Boccard
University of Girona - Department of Economics

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Electricity, Intermittency, Adequacy, Reliability, Demand-supply balance

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Natural Disasters over France a 35 Years Assessment

Posted: 18 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 23 Sep 2018
Nicolas Boccard
University of Girona - Department of Economics

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Natural Disaster, Resilience, Risk Management, Climate Change, Economic Cost, Insurance, Development

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Racial Discrimination and Redlining in Cities

Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 48, No. 2, September 2000
Posted: 10 Jul 2001
Yves Zenou, Yves Zenou and Nicolas Boccard
Stockholm UniversityMonash University - Department of Economics and University of Girona - Department of Economics

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urban equilibrium, access costs, spatial mismatch, urban unemployment