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This article analyses energy efficiency coefficients and their evolution in the air transport sector. The proposed … ’macro-level’ methodology allows obtaining energy efficiency coefficients and their growth rates (corresponding to the … period, energy efficiency improvements have been equal to 2.88% per year at the world level, with strong differences between …
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The aim of this article is to investigate whether anticipated technological progress can be expected to be strong enough to offset carbon dioxide (CO2)emissions resulting from the rapid growth of air transport. Aviation CO2 emissions projections are provided at the worldwide level and for eight...
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standard of at least 40 years and in some countries, such as the United States, of 60 years) imposes significant costs on … German power producers, electricity consumers and the German economy. This article estimates the direct costs linked to the … shutdown of Germany’s nuclear power reactors before the end of their operational lifetimes. These are costs that are …
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We investigate the relative efficiency of an agreement based on a uniform standard without transfers and one based on …
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that must be satisfied by the arbitrage bounds on derivative securities prices, and we determine optimal hedging strategies …-selling costs and show that they can be quite sharp. …
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We consider a financial market with costs as in Kabanov and Last (1999). Given a utility function defined on ${\mathbb …
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Adding volatility exposure to an equity portfolio offers interesting opportunities for long-term investors. This article discusses the advantages of adding a long volatility strategy for a protection to a global European equity portfolio and to specific equity portfolios based in "core" or...
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We consider a mean-variance hedging (MVH) problem for an arbitrage-free large financial market, that is, a financial …
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forward hedging and vertical integration are two separate mechanisms for demand and spot price risk diversification that both … forward hedging when retailers are highly risk averse. We illustrate our analysis with data from the French electricity market …
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