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The formation of party preferences is a complex and not yet fully understood process based on a number of factors. This process, which is of great interest for both social and political science, is usually studied using questionnaire data which has proven to be a very reliable yet often costly...
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demand and supply shocks. The results show that higher macroeconomic uncertainty, as measured by higher world industrial … elasticity of oil demand and supply in the uncertain regime, or in other words, that both oil curves become steeper when … uncertainty is high. The difference in oil demand elasticities is both statistically and economically meaningful. Accordingly …
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the time of the year. Most of the reversion back to oil occurs in spring and summer when demand for gas to heating and …
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Italy’s domestic tourism flows during the recent years of economic recession. Indeed, the occurrence of closer tourism … dataset is made of inter-regional tourism flows among Italian regions over the 2000-12 period; across this period, 2008 to …
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This research estimates the impact of climate on European agriculture using a continental scale Ricardian analysis. Climate, soil, geography and regional socio-economic variables are matched with farm level data from 37,612 farms across Western Europe. We demonstrate that a median quantile...
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This paper explains how, in the context of incomplete coordination among all countries, unilateral policies that might at first sight seem pro-green could actually turn out to harm the global environment. The free-riding motives and the difficulty of reaching an effective international...
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This paper explores how a principal with time-inconsistent preferences invests optimally in technology or capital. If the current principal prefers her future self to save more, she can increase current investments complementary to future savings and decrease investments in the strategic...
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/1991, speculative demand shocks also played a role. Third, it is shown that temporary oil price hikes influence economic decisions that … demand shocks can emerge that to date appear to have been overlooked. …
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market data. I control for contemporaneous shocks to demand and supply by constructing a detailed supply curve for fossil … generation, and intersecting it with residual demand for fossil-based electricity for every hour. Determining the marginal …
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This paper contributes to the green paradox literature by using a resource extraction framework with heterogeneous energy sources. A key feature of the model is a capacity constrained green backstop resource, which implies the simultaneous use of the expensive backstop resource and the cheaper...
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