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Weather and Income: Lessons from the main European regions
García-León, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Some recent papers by Dell et al. (2009) and Dell et al. (2012) (DJO) relating weather and economic outcomes, have … countries, leaving rich countries basically unaffected. In this study, we make use of a detailed weather and economic dataset … regions to a climate shock is partially adapted in the long-run. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011130323
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A Radical Shift in Managing Risks: Practical Applications of Complexity Theory
Chichilnisky, Graciela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
Complexity theory is designed to bring order out of a rough-and- tumble world, something close to every insurance professional's or actuary's heart. Whether applied in the laboratory or as part of a mathematical model, it can do wonderful things . But in the real world it's just what its name...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789667
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Reduction of disaster vulnerability through Indigenous knowledge
Pathan, Pervez.A; Khan, A. Razzaq; Razzaq, S; Jariko, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Linking indegenious knowledge of the community with modern techniques to mesure, analyse and reduce disaster … local wisdom, knowledge along with modern tools and techniques can give rid from disaster worst situation and can reduce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259857
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From Coping with Natural Disasters in the Past to a Model of Future Optimal Adaptation
Bucher, Raphael; Guelden Sterzl, Jasmin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The aim of this paper is to gain insights from studying adaptation to natural disasters in the past in order to analyze optimal adaptation in Switzerland in the future. Most adaptation measures already undertaken in Switzerland are so-called reactive measures. They may be eective, but not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372563
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What time to adapt? The role of discretionary time in sustaining the climate change value-action gap
Chai, Andreas; Bradley, Graham; Lo, Alex Y.; Reser, Joseph - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We investigate the role discretionary (non-working) time plays in sustaining the gap between individuals’ concern about climate change and their propensity to act on this concern by adopting sustainable consumption practices. Using recent Australian survey data on climate change adaptation, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258233
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Australia's Carbon Tax: A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing?
Spash, Clive L.; Lo, Alex Y. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Australia. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322896
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Collinsville solar thermal project: Energy economics and dispatch forecasting - Final report
Bell, William Paul; Wild, Phillip; Foster, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
-solar thermal plant at Collinsville, Queensland, Australia for its lifetime 2017-47. These forecasts are to facilitate Power …
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Collinsville solar thermal project: Yield forecasting – Final report
Bell, William Paul; Wild, Phillip; Foster, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
at Collinsville, Queensland, Australia based on the environmental condition between 2007 and 2013. However, the … - BoM’s Collinsville Post Office weather station - Allen’s (2013) datasets The overarching research question for the report … is: Can modelling the weather with limited datasets produce greater yield predictive power than using the historically …
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Salarios, demanda agregada y desempeño económico en Colombia: un debate no resuelto
Quintero, Loaiza; Leandro, Osmar; Ríos, Sierra; Milena, Ana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
According to neoclassical economic theory, there is a negative relationship between real wages, and the level of output and employment. Therefore, neoclassical theory tends to favor policy measures that seek to diminish real wages and deregulate the labor market, explaining that poor economic...
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Kaleckian vs. Marxian specifications of the investment function: Some empirical evidence for the US
Schoder, Christian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Following Lavoie et al. (2004), this paper empirically assesses four investment functions closing the Kaleckian baseline model in the long-run: (a) the Naive-Kaleckian specification without any long-run adjustment; (b) the Intermediate-Kaleckian specification with an endogenous adjustment of the...
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