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Vertical Market Power in Interconnected Natural Gas and Electricity Markets
Marks, Levi - 2017
New England is at the leading edge of an energy transition in which natural gas is playing an increasingly important role in the US electricity generation mix. In recent years, the region's wholesale natural gas and electricity markets have experienced severe, simultaneous price spikes. While...
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War and Natural Resource Exploitation
van der Ploeg, Rick; Rohner, Dominic - 2021
Although the relationship between natural resources and civil war has received much attention, little is known about the underlying mechanisms. Controversies and contradictions in the stylized facts persist because resource extraction is treated as exogenous while in reality fighting affects...
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War and Natural Resource Exploitation
Ploeg, Frederick Van der; Rohner, Dominic - CESifo - 2010
Although the relationship between natural resources and civil war has received much attention, little is known about the underlying mechanisms. Controversies and contradictions in the stylized facts persist because resource extraction is treated as exogenous while in reality fighting affects...
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Reduction of Employment Protection in Europe : A Comparative Fuzzy-Set Analysis
Ochel, Wolfgang; Hülsewig, Anja - 2021
by relaxing it for temporary jobs. These countries are Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands …
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Jump Processes in Natural Gas Markets
Mason, Charles F. - 2014
Natural gas is likely to become increasingly important in the future. Understanding the stochastic underpinnings of natural gas prices will be critical, both to policy analysts and to market participants. To this end, we investigate the potential presence of jumps in natural gas spot prices in...
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Modeling UK Natural Gas Prices When Gas Prices Periodically Decouple from the Oil Price
Asche, Frank - 2015
When natural gas prices are subject to periodic decoupling from oil prices, for instance due to peak-load pricing, conventional linear models of price dynamics such as the Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) can lead to erroneous inferences about cointegration relationships, price adjustments...
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Liberalizing Russian Gas Markets – An Economic Analysis
Aune, Finn Roar - 2017
subsidies, and how changes in Russian gas consumption may affect its gas export to Europe. We also examine the importance of … Russian pipeline capacity to Europe, as well as impacts of hypothetical changes in Russian gas export behavior. For this … purpose, we use a detailed numerical model for the energy markets in Europe and Russia – LIBEMOD. Our results suggest that …
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The Long Arm of the European VAT, Exemplified by the Dutch Experience
Bettendorf, Leon; Cnossen, Sijbren - 2021
The European Commission is evaluating the performance of the common VAT, which has many shortcomings. The numerous exemptions and differentiated rate structures violate the logic and functionality of the VAT. The exemptions distort input choices and outsourcing policies. Reduced rates are...
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Which Conflicts Can the European Neighbourhood Policy Help Resolve?
Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2012
Under what conditions can the European Neighbourhood Policy achieve one of its main objectives: to resolve conflicts in the European Union's neighbourhood? In the spirit of Montesquieu and Monnet, the basic hypothesis of the EU is that closer economic integration encourages governments to take...
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Earnings Shocks and Tax-Motivated Income-Shifting : Evidence from European Multinationals
Dharmapala, Dhammika - 2012
This paper presents a new approach to estimating the existence and magnitude of tax-motivated income shifting within multinational corporations. Existing studies of income shifting use changes in corporate tax rates as a source of identification. In contrast, this paper exploits exogenous...
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