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Modelling long-run energy consumption under model uncertainty

Humer, Stefan; Csereklyei, Z. - EcoMod Network - 2012

The causality between energy consumption and real income in developed countries has been a very vital research topic in recent years. Raising concerns about climate change and global warming increase the pressure on policy makers to take action against energy depletion. Unfortunately these...

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Guidelines for employment impact assessment of renewable energy deployment - gross employment studies

Nathani, Carsten; Schmid, Christian; Breitschopf, Barbara; … - EcoMod Network - 2012

The use of renewable energy (RE) sources plays a significant role in increasing the security of energy supply and mitigating climate change. Whereas this role is undisputed, there is an ongoing discussion about the employment impacts of promoting RE deployment. In the past years several studies...

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Taxing home ownership: distributional effects of including net imputed rent in taxable income

Tsakloglou, Panos; Figari, Francesco; Paulus, Alari; … - EcoMod Network - 2012

Imputed rental income of homeowners is tax exempt in most countries, despite the long-standing arguments recommending its inclusion in the tax base, on both equity and efficiency grounds. While the financial and fiscal crisis revived interest towards this form of taxation, this paper...

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The Influence of Age on Consumption

Stoever, Britta - EcoMod Network - 2012

demographic impact on final demand is of special interest in this study. Based on the life cycle theory (Fisher (1907, 1930 … detect the influence of different age groups on the composition of consumption for Germany. The results are used to show the … development is taken from the 12th coordinated population projection for Germany generated by the National Statistical Office …

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Consumer responsibilities of carbon emissions in a post-Kyoto regime until 2020

Wiebe, Kirsten Svenja; Lutz, Christian - EcoMod Network - 2012

COP17 in Durban revealed once again the general willingness to commit to the 2°-target and the difficulty to reach an international Post-Kyoto agreement until 2015. There is strong evidence from model-based analysis that economic costs of reaching the 2°-target will be below global GDP growth...

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Guidelines for employment impact assessment of renewable energy deployment – general aspects and net employment studies

Breitschopf, Barbara; Nathani, Carsten; Resch, Gustav - EcoMod Network - 2012

The use of renewable energy (RE) sour ces plays a significant role in increa sing the security of energy supply and mitigating climate change. Whereas this role is und isputed, there is an ongoing discussion about the employment impacts of promoting RE deployment. So far no common methodological...

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Balancing the European Currency Union - an Impact Analysis on the Return of National Currencies

Mönnig, Anke - EcoMod Network - 2012

fraction of people that argument in favour of an exit strategy of Germany from the ECU or even the break-up of the ECU in total …. The path to the ECU was long and mainly politically driven. Albeit, the theory of optimal currency area (OCA) has favoured … comparative advantage / disadvantage of Germany’s membership in the ECU from a purely economic point of view. And thus, to …

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Connectedness Cycles in Equity Markets: A Wavelet Approach

Schmidbauer, Harald; Rösch, Angi; Uluceviz, Erhan - EcoMod Network - 2012

The connectedness of international equity markets can be measured building on the well-established forecast error variance decomposition framework. This approach permits the assessment of the propagation of shocks (spillovers) across equity markets on a day-to-day basis. The focus of our...

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DIVERGENT OPTIMAL INFLATION RATES IN EURO AREA COUNTRIES OR "DOES ONE SIZE FIT ALL?"

Caraballo, Mª Ángeles; Efthimiadis, Tilemahos - EcoMod Network - 2012

The aim of this paper is to derive the optimal inflation rate for the Euro Area (EA) countries from the relationship between relative price variability (RPV). In order to achieve the above stated goal, we have utilized monthly data for the Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices between January 1997...

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Modeling Economic Impacts of Renewable Energy Expansion – The Experience for Germany

Edler, Dietmar - EcoMod Network - 2012

In recent years Germany - like other countries - has followed strategies to expand the share of renewable energy (RE … energy it can be expected that Germany will stay in the lead with respect to reshaping the energy system. The rationale …

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