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Collaborative investor engagement with policymakers : changing the rules of the game?

Yamahaki, Camila; Marchewitz, Catherine - 2023

Although a growing number of investors are engaging with sovereign entities on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues, little academic research investigates this new form of investor activism. Applying universal ownership theory and drawing on eleven case studies of policy...

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Global risk and the dollar

Georgiadis, Georgios; Müller, Gernot J.; Schumann, Ben - 2023

transmission of global risk to the world economy within a Bayesian proxy structural vectorautoregressive model. We identify global …, the contractionary impact of a global risk shock is much weaker, both in the rest of the world and the US. For the rest of … the world, contractionary financial channels thus dominate expansionary expenditure switching when global risk rises and …

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The just energy transition partnership in South Africa : identification and assessment of key factors driving international cooperation

Lüpke, Heiner von - 2023

This paper investigates the implications of implementing the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) in South Africa by exploring the factors that are at work when donors and recipients interact with each other. It analyses the JETP using global cooperation theories on climate change and...

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The economic value of plutonium

Hirschhausen, Christian R. von - 2022

Although plutonium has been studied by different disciplines (such as technology and innovation studies, political sciences) since its discovery, back in 1940 at the University of California (Berkeley), the resource and environmental economic literature is still relatively scarce; neither does the...

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How many bucks in a bang : on the estimation of the economic costs of conflict

Groot, Olaf J. de; Brück, Tilman; Bozzoli, Carlos - 2009

The estimation of the costs of conflict is currently receiving a lot of attention in the literature. This paper aims to give a thorough overview of the existing literature, first by addressing the history of case studies that address conflict costs and second by looking at the existing body of...

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The influence of collusion on price changes : new evidence from major cartel cases

Blanckenburg, Korbinian von; Geist, Alexander; … - 2010

In this paper, we compare the distribution of price changes between collusive and noncollusive periods for ten major cartels. The first moments focus on previous research. We extend the discussion to the third (skewness) and fourth (kurtosis) moments. However, none of the above descriptive...

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Global imbalances and the current account adjustment process : an empirical analysis

Tippkötter, Marius - 2010

This paper investigates the impact of the exchange rate regime on the current account adjustment process. In a first step, the present analysis assesses previous empirical work supporting the predominant view that more flexible exchange rate regimes facilitate current account adjustments. Using...

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Long memory and fractional integration in high frequency financial time series

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A. - 2010

This paper analyses the long-memory properties of high frequency financial time series. It focuses on temporal aggregation and the influence that this might have on the degree of dependence of the series. Fractional integration or I(d) models are estimated with a variety of specifications for...

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The world gas market in 2030 : development scenarios using the world gas model

Huppmann, Daniel; Egging, Ruud; Holz, Franziska; … - 2009

In this paper, we discuss potential developments of the world natural gas industry at the horizon of 2030. We use the … World Gas Model (WGM), a dynamic, strategic representation of world natural gas production, trade, and consumption between … 2005 and 2030. We specify a "base case" which defines the business-as-usual assumptions based on forecasts of the world …

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The impact of domestic and global biofuel mandates on the German agricultural sector

Sorda, Giovanni; Banse, Martin; Kemfert, Claudia - 2009

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