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An Empirical Survey of the Ramifications of a Green Economy
Heshmati, Almas - 2014
The unprecedented deterioration of our global environment has increased the necessity of relying upon Green Economic policies as critical and effective environmental management tools. The current situation has stimulated extensive research and debate among global interest groups. This has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352244
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The Main Support Mechanisms to Finance Renewable Energy Development
Abolhosseini, Shahrouz; Heshmati, Almas - 2014
Considering that the major part of greenhouse gases is carbon dioxide, there is a global concern aimed at reducing carbon emissions. Additionally, major consumer countries are looking for alternative sources of energy to avoid the impact of higher fossil fuel prices and political instability in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377292
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An Empirical Survey of the Ramifications of a Green Economy
Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The unprecedented deterioration of our global environment has increased the necessity of relying upon Green Economic policies as critical and effective environmental management tools. The current situation has stimulated extensive research and debate among global interest groups. This has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884114
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The Main Support Mechanisms to Finance Renewable Energy Development
Abolhosseini, Shahrouz; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Considering that the major part of greenhouse gases is carbon dioxide, there is a global concern aimed at reducing carbon emissions. Additionally, major consumer countries are looking for alternative sources of energy to avoid the impact of higher fossil fuel prices and political instability in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884228
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Aggregation in large dynamic panels
Pesaran, Mohammad Hashem; Chudik, Alexander - 2011
This paper considers the problem of aggregation in the case of large linear dynamic panels, where each micro unit is … Pesaran (2003), an optimal aggregate function is derived, and the limiting behavior of the aggregation error is investigated … which observed inflation persistence at the aggregate level is due to aggregation and/or common unobserved factors. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285520
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The Power of Hydroelectric Dams: Agglomeration Spillovers
Severnini, Edson R. - 2014
How much of the geographic clustering of economic activity is attributable to agglomeration spillovers as opposed to natural advantages? I present evidence on this question using data on the long-run effects of large scale hydroelectric dams built in the U.S. over the 20th century, obtained...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352291
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Food for Fuel: The Effect of the US Biofuel Mandate on Poverty in India
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Helene; Ural … - 2018
More than 40% of US grain is used for energy due to the Renewable Fuels Mandate (RFS). There are no studies of the global distributional consequences of this purely domestic policy. Using micro-level survey data, we trace the effect of the RFS on world food prices and their impact on household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931749
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Alternative Models of Preference Heterogeneity for Elicited Choice Probabilities
Kettlewell, Nathan; Walker, Matthew J.; Yoo, Hong Il - 2024
Discrete choice experiments (DCEs) often present concise choice scenarios that may appear incomplete to respondents. To allow respondents to express uncertainty arising from this incompleteness, DCEs may ask them to state probabilities with which they expect to make specific choices. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533985
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Evaluating the Impacts of Minigrid Electrification in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ayhan, Sinem H.; Falchetta, Giacomo; Steckel, Jan C. - 2022
A large share of the population of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) lacks access to modern energy services. To bridge the electricity access gap, distributed power generation systems such as minigrids and stand-alone photovoltaic systems emerge as attractive options in the power supply solution space....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426315
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Socioeconomic Inequality in Low-Carbon Technology Adoption
Burlinson, Andrew; Davillas, Apostolos; Giulietti, Monica - 2023
data on the adoption of three key LCTs (solar photovoltaics, solar heating, and electric vehicles) in the UK. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296858