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Reforming energy policy in India : assessing the options
Parry, Ian W. H.; Mylonas, Victor; Vernon, Nate - 2017
Spreadsheet models are used to assess the environmental, fiscal, economic, and incidence effects of a wide range of options for reducing fossil fuel use in India. Among the most effective options is ramping up the existing coal tax. Annually increasing the tax by INR 150 (USD 2.25) per ton of...
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Analyzing the effects of financial and housing wealth on consumption using micro data
Caceres, Carlos - 2019
, and total net worth) on consumption. The study uses longitudinal household-level data?from the Panel Study of Income …
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Credit constraints, productivity shocks and consumption volatility in emerging economies
Bhattacharya, Rudrani; Patnaiky, Ila - 2013
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Electricity consumption and temperature : evidence from satellite data
Yao, Jiaxiong - 2021
Past studies on the relationship between electricity consumption and temperature have primarily focused on individual … by satellites, night light has a strong linear relationship with electricity consumption and is correlated with both its … extensive and intensive margins. Using night light as a proxy for electricity consumption at the grid level, we find: (1) there …
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Saving in Latin America and the Caribbean : Performance and Policies
Grigoli, Francesco - 2015
This paper analyzes saving patterns and determinants in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), including key policy variables and regimes. The review of previous empirical studies on LAC saving reveals contradictions and omissions. This paper presents empirical results of an extensive search of...
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Financial innovation, the Discovery of Risk, and the U.S. Credit Crisis
Mendoza, Enrique G. - 2010
show that a boom-bust cycle in debt, asset prices and consumption characterizes the equilibrium dynamics of a model with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402674
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Cross-Country Consumption Risk Sharing, a Long-Run Perspective
Qiao, Zhaogang - 2010
This paper estimates an empirical nonstationary panel regression model that tests long-run consumption risk sharing … across a sample of OECD and emerging market (EM) countries. This is in contrast to the existing literature on consumption …
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The Effects of Financial Deregulationon Consumption
International Monetary Fund - 1989
consumption patterns. Data for six industrialized countries are used to estimate a simple model incorporating liquidity …
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The impact of longevity improvements on U.S. corporate defined benefit pension plans
Kisser, Michael; Kiff, John; Oppers, Erik S.; Soto, Mauricio - 2012
This paper provides the first empirical assessment of the impact of life expectancy assumptions on the liabilities of private U.S. defined benefit (DB) pension plans. Using detailed actuarial and financial information provided by the U.S. Department of Labor, we construct a longevity variable...
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Epidemics, gender, and human capital in developing countries
Fabrizio, Stefania; Gomes, Diego Braz Pereira; … - 2021
Epidemics have disrupted lives for centuries with deleterious human capital and economic repercussions. In this paper, we investigate how epidemics episodes have impacted school dropouts in developing countries, considering 623 epidemics episodes across countries from 1970 to 2019. Our estimates...
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