A Social Publics’ Evaluation for Promotion Priority of Solar Energy Policy in Taiwan Based on Analytical Hierarchy Process

This study adopted analytical hierarchical process (AHP) to evaluate the significance of the policy criterion for promoting solar energy, regarding social publics’ points of view. The results of the study are described as follows. The social publics suggested that the most important major criteria are in the following order: policy, technique, educational promotion, and economy incentives. For the global weights of the criteria, the criteria with top five weights are in the following order: “patents for solar energy products“ (0.183), “encourage R&D of new techniques and reduce power cost“ (0.168), “improve power saving technique“ (0.095), “encourage the firms to develop new techniques of solar energy power“ (0.082), and “increase percentage of solar energy power in total power capacity“ (0.075).

Identifying the Attitude of Environmental Practitioners toward Policy for Promoting Wind Energy in Taiwan Using Analytical Hierarchy Process

The analytical hierarchical process (AHP) was adopted in this study to determine the priority of the policy criterion related to promoting wind energy, considering the environmental practitioners’ points of view. The results were described as follows. The practitioners from environmental organizations suggested that the most important major criteria are in the following order: policy criterion layer, technical criterion layer, economy criterion layer, and energy education criterion layer. For the global weights of the criteria, the criteria with top five weights were in the order as follows: “active development of green energy industry by government”, “supply and consumption method of low-carbon and low-pollution energy”, “increase of percentage of power generation from renewable energy in total power supply”, “encourage manufacturers to develop new wind power generation technology”, and “continually develop the technology projects which has potential and prospects in the future”.

The Suitability of the European Merger Control System: An Analysis of Five Years of Application / Die Eignung des europäischen Fusionskontrollsystems zur Erfassung wettbewerbswidriger Zusammenschlüsse: Eine Analyse von fünf Jahren Anwendungspraxis

SummaryOn September 21, 1990 the European Merger Control System became effective. The author discusses three problems that have arisen in the European debate on establishing a supra-national merger control, namely, the question of:- turnover thresholds to institute control proceedings,- purely competitive or a mixed competitive-industrial policy criterion a la France to take action against anti-competitive mergers, and- residual national jurisdiction should a national market dominant position be created rather than a Community-wide restraint of trade.Finally, the author tries to evaluate the decisions taken by the European Commission up to the end of 1995 and proposes institutional changes in the merger control system, as the workability of the existing system can only be improved by making use of institutional economics.