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“Being rich in energy resources – a blessing or a curse” finds that an energy resource curse plagues many EU supplier states. This in turn directly affects Europe’s energy supply security and threatens to engulf Europe in unwanted hostilities at home and abroad. The study addresses seven...
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We present Turkey’s manufacturing-sector innovation data and, for the first time, analyze likely relationships among GDP growth, sectoral innovation intensities, energy consumptions, and energy-saving potentials. We detect a power-law-like relationship between the projected energy-saving...
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We focus on assessing RES- and energy-efficiency promoting policy mixes for Russia from multicriteria perspective with emphasis on GHG emission reduction. We start from two surveys: the first one studies country’s energy saving and RES potential to determine possible range of outcomes for...
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I evaluate the out-of-sample forecasting performance of five models of Chinese and Indian energy consumption. The results are mixed, but in general the auto-regressive distributed lag and unobserved components models perform the best over multiple evaluation criteria. I then use these two models...
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China has becoming in 2006 the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases (GHG), responsible for one-fifth of world … generation capacities substantial investments in China’s energy infrastructure are necessary. But the potential investors are … confronted with uncertainty in the design of China’s future climate policy, which might affect the profitability of GHG emitting …
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China is concerned about the security of its sea-lanes for imports and desires to diversify its oil supplies from the … Middle East in order to sustain economic growth. These concerns have sparked China’s interest in trying to ensure oil … supplies from as many sources as possible and in reducing its overwhelming reliance on seaborne imports of oil, which, in China …
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data from rural China that cover three generations and are not subject to coresidency bias. The evidence from recently …
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Institutional changes in the economy have been the research subject of many economists, the majority of studies are carried out within neoinstitutionalism. In this paper the author attempts to analyze current institutional changes in terms of the old or traditional institutionalism. The author...
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The perception of special interest groups as a serious threat to economic growth has strengthened over the years; however, the vast empirical literature surrounding this claim has produced mixed and inconclusive results. This study re-examines the issue incorporating a potentially important...
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Coal is one of the Primary sources of Energy accounting for about 67% of total energy consumption in India. The … production of Coal has increased from 35 million tons in 1951 to 409.3 million tons in 2004. At the same time, the Average Daily … Employment (ADE) has increased from 352 thousand in 1951 to 405 thousand in 2004. However, the journey of Coal sector was not …
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