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Discounting in the Presence of Scarce Ecosystem Services
Zhu, Xueqin - 2019
Discounting has to take account of ecosystem services in consumption and production. Previous literature focuses on the first aspect and shows the importance of the relative price effect, for given growth rates of consumption and ecosystem services. This paper focuses on intermediate ecosystem...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892067
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Synergistic Value in Vertically Integrated Power-to-Gas Energy Systems
Glenk, Gunther - 2019
hydrogen production from PtG is profitable on its own in the current market environment. Yet, provided both subsystems are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858208
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Fragmented Landscape of European Policies in the Energy Sector : First-Mover Advantages
Govorukha, Kristina; Mayer, Philip; Rübbelke, Dirk T. G. - 2021
In order to achieve the commonly agreed emission reduction target, the European Commission developed binding national targets for each member state until 2030 and called upon the member states to submit National Energy and Climate Plans to ensure increased transparency for the respective...
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Energy Contagion in the COVID-19 Crisis
Heinlein, Reinhold - 2020
We investigate the relationship between oil prices and stock markets of selected oil importers and oil exporters at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. We provide evidence in favour of energy contagion, in term of significantly higher correlations between oil and stock markets returns during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831660
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The demands for environmental regulation and for trade in the presence of private mitigation
Hotte, Louis; Winer, Stanley L. - 2008
equilibrium of a small open economy where the environment is an input to production. Differences in the ability of individuals to … leads to an endogenous, unequal distribution of the health-related consequences of pollution across income groups in a … manner consistent with epidemiologic studies, in contrast to much of the literature which assumes equal health effects for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264525
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The impact of monetary and commodity fundamentals, macro news and central bank communication on the exchange rate: evidence from South Africa
Égert, Balázs - 2009
This paper studies drivers of high-frequency (daily) dynamics of the South African rand vis-à-vis the dollar from January 2001 to July 2007. We find strong nonlinear effects of commodity prices, perceived country and emerging market risk premium and changes in the dollar-euro exchange rate on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273784
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How Do Small Firms Respond to Tax Schedule Discontinuities? Evidence from South African Tax Registers
Boonzaaier, Wian - 2019
We study the responsiveness of small and medium-sized firms to a small-business corporate income tax schedule using population-wide administrative data from South Africa. We find sizeable bunching of firms at the corporate income thresholds where the corporate tax rate increases, implying active...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892299
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Narrowing the 'Digital Divide' : The Role of Complementarities between Fixed and Mobile Data in South Africa
Hawthorne, Ryan - 2019
We study substitution between fixed and mobile broadband services in South Africa using survey data on 134,000 individuals between 2009 and 2014. In our discrete-choice model, individuals choose fixed or mobile voice and data services in a framework that allows them to be substitutes or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866806
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Benefits of Regulation vs. Competition Where Inequality is High : The Case of Mobile Telephony in South Africa
Hawthorne, Ryan - 2019
We test for the distributional effects of regulation and entry in the mobile telecommunications sector in a highly unequal country, South Africa. Using six waves of a consumer survey of over 134,000 individuals between 2009-2014, we estimate a discrete-choice model allowing for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866874
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Crime, Inequality and Subsidized Housing : Evidence from South Africa
Manea, Roxana; Piraino, Patrizio; Viarengo, Martina - 2021
We study the relationship between housing inequality and crime in South Africa. We create a novel panel dataset combining information on crimes at the police station level with census data. We find that housing inequality explains a significant share of the variation in both property and violent...
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