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 …

probabilities with a simple GDP forecasting model yields an accurate nowcast for the steepest decline in GDP in 2009Q1 and a correct …

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 …

aggregates are time-varying, much of the literature on forecasting aggregates considers the case of linear aggregates with fixed … theoretical setup and the forecasting results …