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This paper aims to report the construction process of Environmental Economic Accounts for Water in Brazil and its institutional articulation between national and international public and private institutions, who participated in this construction effort. It also presents the current stage of...
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interventions can be scaled up. In cooperation with a large public utility in Germany, we develop an energy savings application for … set themselves energy consumption targets. The roll-out of the app is promoted by a mass-marketing campaign and large … financial incentives. Results document low demand for the energy app in the general population and a tightly estimated null …
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Environmental impact assessment is currently the major Brazilian institution that routinely seeks community input about infrastructure projects. It is criticized both by activists who think it permits projects it should not and by project proponents who think that it is too slow and blocks...
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run a lab experiment which mimics an energy consumption choice and randomizes the timing of when consumption costs are …
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1978 to 1990. Using a quadratic cost function, six production factors are distinguished : capital, energy, three types of …
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. According to recent simulation studies, the demand-side effects of an energy embargo (coal, oil, natural gas) reduce GDP between … 2 percent and 4 percent in the short run. These results underscore the high degree of uncertainty regarding the economic … to act as swiftly as possible to ensure independence from Russian energy imports. In addition, Germany’s future energy …
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. According to recent simulation studies, the demand-side effects of an energy embargo (coal, oil, natural gas) reduce GDP between … 2 percent and 4 percent in the short run. These results underscore the high degree of uncertainty regarding the economic … to act as swiftly as possible to ensure independence from Russian energy imports. In addition, Germany’s future energy …
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Activities of international banks have been at the core of discussions on the causes and effects of the international financial crisis. Yet, we know little about the actual magnitudes and mechanisms for transmission of liquidity shocks through international banks, including the reasons for...
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We develop a measure of static misallocation that separates uncertainty from misallocation generated by tax …-like distortions. In the Finnish firm-level data, uncertainty accounts for the majority of ex post misallocation and explains a strong … implies idiosyncratic distortions, in line with our accounting approach. According to our quantitative results, uncertainty …
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robust model for small amounts of uncertainty and analyze the effect of robustness on optimal trading strategies and …
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