Past studies on the relationship between electricity consumption and temperature have primarily focused on individual …, overcoming the data constraint by using grid-level night light and temperature data. Mostly generated by electricity and recorded … by satellites, night light has a strong linear relationship with electricity consumption and is correlated with both its …

evolution of Ireland’s competitiveness over the same period. Changes in expectations of the currency’s devaluation can be … explained largely by developments outside Ireland, particularly by past and anticipated movements of sterling. The evolution of … Ireland’s real exchange rate over the same period is also found to be strongly linked to sterling’s fluctuations, even after …

-level outcomes for five network industries (electricity and gas, land transport, air transport, postal services, and …

The EU Services Directive was adopted in 2006 to foster competition in services across Europe. However, progress in … liberalization process could be given by enhancing the advocacy role of national competition authorities in interpreting the notion …

Labor market deregulation, intended to boost productivity and employment, is one plausible, yet little studied, driver … the impact of job protection deregulation in a sample of 26 advanced economies over the period 1970-2015, using a newly … grounded in theory-namely that job protection deregulation should have larger negative effects in industries characterized by …

This paper investigates the degree of bank competition in the euro area, the U.S. and U.K. before and after the recent … financial crisis, and revisits the issue whether the introduction of EMU and the euro have had any impact on bank competition …. The results suggest that the level of bank competition converged across euro area countries in the wake of the EMU. The …

's success story, highlighting crucial policies in education and electricity sectors. It undertakes a forward-looking costing … exercise that focusses on five sectors - education, health, roads, water, and electricity infrastructure. Achieving the …