This paper estimates the returns to household income due to improved access to electricity in rural India. We examine … the effect of connecting a household to the grid and the quality of electricity, defined as hours of daily supply. The … quality of electricity (in terms of fewer outages and more hours per day) increases non-agricultural incomes by about 28 …

energy sources for electricity production (RES-E). If an emission cap is the only policy target, an optimal mix consisting of …

This paper conducts a broad-based comparison of iterated and direct multi-step forecasting approaches applied to both … factor-augmented vector autoregression approach, improves forecasting performance for many variables, particularly at short …

forecasts based on exponential down-weighting critically depends on the choice of the weighting coefficient. The forecasting … techniques are applied to monthly inflation series of 21 OECD countries and it is found that average forecasting methods in …

Globalization has led to huge increases in import volumes, but the literature on import forecasting is still in its … confidence in the countries it trades with and its price competitiveness. In a pseudo out-of-sample, real-time forecasting …

transforms can be manipulated by changing the order of variables in the forecasting model. We derive order invariant tests. The …

has implications for the estimation of economic models of energy-intensive durables, for oil price forecasting, and for …