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This paper examines the asymmetric impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and oil price uncertainty (OPU) on …
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This paper analyses the effects of oil prices and exchange rates on sectoral stock returns in the BRICS-T countries over the period from 2 January 2001 to 22 March 2021. After estimating a benchmark linear model, the possible presence of structural breaks is investigated using the Bai and Perron...
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provides new insights for examining the determinants of oil prices. All investigations of underlying oil price fluctuations are …
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We analyse the drivers of European Power Exchange (EPEX) wholesale electricity prices between 2012 and early 2022 using machine learning. The agnostic random forest approach that we use is able to reduce in-sample root mean square errors (RMSEs) by around 50% when compared to a standard linear...
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price regulations. Consumers demand stricter fuel price regulations to provide transparency about the current price level … and to protect them from sudden price fluctuations. Such regulations are already in place in several countries, but … whether they indeed help lower the overall fuel price level is unclear. In this paper, we study the effect of Austria’s Fuel …
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shrouded or indicated separately, but they also drop out more often when the overall price becomes known at the check-out. In … sum, the demand distribution is independent of the price presentation. This result qualifies previous findings on the …
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This paper analyses the relationship between CPI and real GDP in both the US and the UK using fractional integration and long-range dependence techniques. All series appear to be highly trended and to exhibit high degrees of integration and persistence, especially in the case of CPI. Since the...
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In recent years, a significant problem with the carbon credit market has been the higher than initially predicted price … fluctuations in prices. In this paper, we examine the dynamic auction design and propose a method to curb price volatility through … a flexible supply cap. The equilibrium analysis shows that modifying the cap on per period supply can decrease price …
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characteristics. We first show how preferences that account for price and unit cost constrain the firm’s pricing power and profit …
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publicly report their charge prices. Our study evaluates the heterogeneous effects of this price transparency policy. We use a … synthetic control method that allows for heterogeneous treatment effects. We find that the price transparency policy not only …) hospitals’ past charge prices prior to adopting the price transparency law, that is, high-price hospitals reduce charge and …
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