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How does climate change affect the transition of power systems : the case of Germany
Golub, Alexander; Govorukha, Kristina; Mayer, Philip; … - 2020
analysis is based on extensive datasets comprising temperature and drought data for the last 40 years. We find evidence of a … wholesale electricity price and price volatility and develop a capacity-adjusted drought index. The results are used to assess …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299466
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Long-term growth effects of natural disasters : empirical evidence for droughts
Berlemann, Michael; Wenzel, Daniela - 2015
on a panel of 153 countries over the period of 1960 to 2002 and employing a truly exogenous drought indicator derived …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011384506
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Insuring peace : index-based livestock insurance, droughts, and conflict
Gehring, Kai; Schaudt, Paul - 2023
drought-induced conflict. One key mechanism is that insured pastoralists travel less far away from their ancestral homelands …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014279886
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Water tariffs and consumers' inaction
Ornaghi, Carmine; Tonin, Mirco - 2018
We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011822824
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Input demand and the short- and long-run employment thresholds : an empirical analysis for the German manufacturing sector
Flaig, Gebhard; Rottmann, Horst - 2000
The concept of the employment threshold plays an important role in the public discussion of unemployment. The employment threshol d is defined as that growth rate of output which is necessary to keep employment constant despite the continuous rise in labour productivity. It is related to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781535
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Product market competition, investment and employment-abundant versus job-poor growth : a real options perspective
Chen, Yu-Fu (contributor); Funke, Michael (contributor) - 2005
The role of product market reforms in achieving the objective of higher employment and growth has recently received much attention amongst academics. The aim of this paper is to analyse some of the channels through which cross-market effects come about and to assess their policy relevance. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003202265
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Pass-through of CO2 emission costs to hourly electricity prices in Germany
Hintermann, Beat - 2014
I estimate the level of emissions cost pass-through to hourly wholesale electricity prices in Germany, based on spot …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010412091
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Unlocking new methods to estimate country-specific trade costs and trade elasticities
Freeman, Rebecca; Larch, Mario; Theodorakopoulos, Angelos; … - 2021
the framework of ‘the new quantitative trade model.' We complement theory with a simple two-stage estimating procedure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012669805
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Communication costs, direct flights and international trade
Furusawa, Taiji; Sun, Chang; Tang, Heiwai; Zhang, Jiaxu - 2024
We build a general equilibrium model of endogenous communication, quality control and trade. We derive a structural gravity equation from the model and show that exogenous communication costs raise the costs of quality control and have a larger impact on products with a lower elasticity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015071134
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Inefficient water pricing and incentives for conservation
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Dar, Manzoor H.; Emerick, Kyle - 2019
We use two randomized controlled trials in Bangladesh to study a simple water conservation technology for rice … that AWD only saves water and increases profits in villages where farmers pay a marginal price for water, but not when they … irrigation water. This low-cost, scalable intervention causes farmers to place more value on the water-saving technology. Demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011987063