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During the Greek economic crisis a focus on energy practice highlights the temporal complexities of local coping … strategies. Re-launched in 2011, the European Union supported solar energy initiative encourages installation of futuristic, high …-modernity, and pre-Europeanization. Energy practice provides a prism through which to discuss increased social suffering and reassess …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010735154
For decades after founding the ECSC (1951) the member states have relegated the issue of joint supranational energy …, European states gradually consolidated their position in favour of supranational energy policy development. This paper presents … an analysis of developments in EU energy policy given the ongoing realignment of strategic interest. It outlines the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884517
During the Greek economic crisis a focus on energy practice highlights the temporal complexities of local coping … strategies. Re-launched in 2011, the European Union supported solar energy initiative encourages installation of futuristic, high …-modernity, and pre-Europeanization. Energy practice provides a prism through which to discuss increased social suffering and reassess …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884697
For decades after founding the ECSC (1951) the member states have relegated the issue of joint supranational energy …, European states gradually consolidated their position in favour of supranational energy policy development. This paper presents … an analysis of developments in EU energy policy given the ongoing realignment of strategic interest. It outlines the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004991165
ideological divide, the US seems destined to heightened levels of policy uncertainty for many years to come. Some research … suggests that such uncertainty, particularly over economic policy, partly explains the sluggish nature of the recovery in … America – and - according to one recent study, restoring policy uncertainty to levels that prevailed before the financial …
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We survey the theoretical and empirical literature on decentralization within firms. We first discuss how the concept of incomplete contracts shapes our views about the organization of decision-making within firms. We then overview the empirical evidence on the determinants of decentralization...
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, emission reductions accounting contains substantial uncertainty as a result of forest carbon stock estimates, where the … 63% in moist forest and 58% in dry forest. Combining forest carbon stock estimates and uncertainty in voluntary carbon … market prices demonstrates the financial impact of uncertainty: potential revenues over the 20-year project ranged between US …
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This paper analyses the design of carbon markets in space (i.e., geographically). It is part of a twin set of papers that, starting from first principles, ask what an optimal global carbon market would look like by around 2030. Our focus is on firm-level cap-and-trade systems, although much of...
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This review article tries to answer four questions: (i) what are the stylized facts about uncertainty over time; (ii …) why does uncertainty vary; (iii) do fluctuations in uncertainty matter; and (iv) did higher uncertainty worsen the Great … Recession of 2007-2009? On the first question both macro and micro uncertainty appears to rise sharply in recessions. On the …
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Weather index insurance is being offered to low-income farmers in developing countries as an alternative to traditional multi-peril crop insurance. There is widespread support for index insurance as a means of climate change adaptation but whether or not these products are themselves resilient...
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