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Modelling long-run energy consumption under model uncertainty

Humer, Stefan; Csereklyei, Z. - EcoMod Network - 2012

The causality between energy consumption and real income in developed countries has been a very vital research topic in recent years. Raising concerns about climate change and global warming increase the pressure on policy makers to take action against energy depletion. Unfortunately these...

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Consumer responsibilities of carbon emissions in a post-Kyoto regime until 2020

Wiebe, Kirsten Svenja; Lutz, Christian - EcoMod Network - 2012

COP17 in Durban revealed once again the general willingness to commit to the 2°-target and the difficulty to reach an international Post-Kyoto agreement until 2015. There is strong evidence from model-based analysis that economic costs of reaching the 2°-target will be below global GDP growth...

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Connectedness Cycles in Equity Markets: A Wavelet Approach

Schmidbauer, Harald; Rösch, Angi; Uluceviz, Erhan - EcoMod Network - 2012

The connectedness of international equity markets can be measured building on the well-established forecast error variance decomposition framework. This approach permits the assessment of the propagation of shocks (spillovers) across equity markets on a day-to-day basis. The focus of our...

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DIVERGENT OPTIMAL INFLATION RATES IN EURO AREA COUNTRIES OR "DOES ONE SIZE FIT ALL?"

Caraballo, Mª Ángeles; Efthimiadis, Tilemahos - EcoMod Network - 2012

The aim of this paper is to derive the optimal inflation rate for the Euro Area (EA) countries from the relationship between relative price variability (RPV). In order to achieve the above stated goal, we have utilized monthly data for the Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices between January 1997...

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Women during Recessions in France and Germany. The Gender Biases of Public Policies

Eydoux, Anne - In: Revue de l'OFCE N° 133 (2014) 2, pp. 153-188

This article explores the gender biases of recessions and policy responses they have entailed in France and Germany in … the 2000s. During the Great Recession, France experienced a significant rise in both female and male unemployment. Germany … impaired by austerity measures and structural reforms, especially in Germany. While recovery plans and labour market policies …

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