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Climate-related stress testing : transition risks in Norway
Grippa, Pierpaolo; Mann, Samuel - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012392495
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Monitoring the climate impact of fiscal policy : lessons from tracking the COVID-19 response
Eltokhy, Khaled; Funke, Katja; Huang, Guohua; Kim, Yujin; … - 2021
In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, governments around the world announced unprecedented fiscal packages to address the economic impact of the crisis. The unusually large scale of the packages was accompanied by widespread calls for "greening" them to meet the dual goals of economic recovery and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012796277
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The impact of environmental policy on innovation in clean technologies
Eugster, Johannes - 2021
This paper studies the effect of climate change mitigating policies on innovation in clean energy technologies. Results suggest that the tightening of environmental policies since the early 1990s have made a statistically and economically significant contribution to the increase in clean...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012605122
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Financial regulation, climate change, and the transition to a low-carbon economy : a survey of the issues
Demekas, Dimitri G.; Grippa, Pierpaolo - 2021
There are demands on central banks and financial regulators to take on new responsibilities for supporting the transition to a low-carbon economy. Regulators can indeed facilitate the reorientation of financial flows necessary for the transition. But their powers should not be overestimated....
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Reconsidering climate mitigation policy in the UK
Arregui, Nicolas; Parry, Ian W. H. - 2020
The UK has pledged to cut greenhouse gases 57 percent below 1990 levels by 2030, to be emisisons neutral by 2050, and to phase out internal combustion engine vehicles by 2030. Much progress has been made, but fully achieving these ambitious objectives with the current policy framework will be...
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A Newton’s method for benchmarking time series according to a growth rates preservation principle
Di Fonzo, Tommaso; Marini, Marco - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009424977
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Benchmarking banking sector efficiency across regional blocks in Sub-Saharan Africa : what room for policy?
Boutin-Dufresne, François; Peña, Santiago; Williams, … - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009726545
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On the extrapolation with the Denton proportional benchmarking method
Di Fonzo, Tommaso; Marini, Marco - 2012
Statistical offices have often recourse to benchmarking methods for compiling quarterly national accounts (QNA …). Benchmarking methods employ quarterly indicator series (i) to distribute annual, more reliable series of national accounts and (ii …) benchmarking method proposed by Denton (1971) is a widely used solution for distribution, but in extrapolation it may suffer when …
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From expenditure consolidation to expenditure efficiency : addressing public expenditure pressures in Lithuania
Coady, David P.; Geng, Nan - 2015
This paper reviews public expenditure in Lithuania to identify areas where deeper structural reforms may be warranted to improve spending efficiency and contain future spending pressures. The analysis benchmarks spending in Lithuania against other European countries focusing on spending levels,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445593
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2020 global stocktaking of national accounts statistics : availability for policy and surveillance
Silungwe, Anthony; Baer, Andrew L.; Guerreiro, Vanda - 2022
This paper analyzes the availability, methodological soundness, and scope of National Accounts statistics in IMF member and non-member countries in 2020. National Account statistics are instrumental in the development of fiscal and monetary policy and in monitoring economic developments. This...
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