Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 179
Cover Image
Information Diffusion and Spillover Dynamics in Renewable Energy Markets
Cedic, Samir; Mahmoud, Alwan; Manera, Matteo; Uddin, … - 2021
The aim of this paper is to analyze the connectedness between renewable energy (RE) sectors, the oil & gas sector and other assets using time-scale spillover approach. We find that the RE bioenergy firms are the most connected to oil & gas firms and oil prices. The bond market transmits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012501728
Cover Image
Uncertainty and Stock Returns in Energy Markets: A Quantile Regression Approach
Cedic, Samir; Mahmoud, Alwan; Manera, Matteo; Uddin, … - 2021
The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between different types of uncertainty and stock returns of the renewable energy and the oil & gas sectors. We use the quantile regression approach developed by Koenker and d’Orey (1987; 1994) to assess which uncertainties are the potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012501729
Cover Image
South Asian Free Trade Area and food trade: Implications for regional food security
Ward, Megan; Herr, Hansjörg; Pédussel Wu, Jennifer - 2020
This paper explores the impact of the South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) agreement on food security by using a gravity model to examine the regional changes in trade in agricultural products. This is followed by a discussion of how this might affect the four dimensions of food security,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012292733
Cover Image
Improving the Lot of the Farmer: Development Challenges in Timor-Leste during the Second Decade of Independence
Lundahl, Mats; Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2012
agricultural development in Timor-Leste and how such development can be achieved. This is done in two steps. The first one takes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208622
Cover Image
Economic Challenges for East Timor
Lundahl, Mats; Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2020
important role in this development and East Timor is fortunate to have a large petroleum fund to utilize for economic growth and … development. Unfortunately, the fund is about to dry up. There are also clear signs that a large part of investments and … development efforts are misplaced. Political conflicts and weak institutions are explaining some of the failures to generate a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208877
Cover Image
The resource curse and its potential reversal
Boschini, Anne; Pettersson, Jan; Roine, Jesper - 2012
Several recent papers suggest that the negative association between natural resource intensity and economic growth can be reversed if institutional quality is high enough. We try to understand this result in more detail by decomposing the resource measure, using alternative measures of both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321368
Cover Image
Disaggregating the resource curse: Is the curse more difficult to dispel in oil states than in mineral states?
Azarchs, Timothy; Khitarishvili, Tamar - 2010
The hypothesis of the natural resource curse has captivated the economics profession, and since the mid-1990s has generated a large body of policymaking initiatives aimed at dispelling the curse. In this paper, we evaluate how the effect of resource abundance on economic growth has changed since...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281737
Cover Image
Linking Heterogeneous Climate Policies (Consistent with the Paris Agreement)
Mehling, Michael A.; Metcalf, Gilbert E.; Stavins, Robert N. - 2017
The Paris Agreement has achieved one of two key necessary conditions for ultimate success – a broad base of participation among the countries of the world. But another key necessary condition has yet to be achieved – adequate collective ambition of the individual nationally determined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816754
Cover Image
Can the diligent governance increase subjective wellbeing? New evidence from environmental regulations in China
Guo, Shu; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2021
With the appearance of “wellbeing stagnation”, the Chinese government has gradually realized the negative impact of increasingly severe environmental problem on people’s wellbeing, and has then has formulated a series of environmental policies. Based on the balanced panel data from2014 to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012819785
Cover Image
Is high-speed rail green? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China
Nie, Liang; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2021
Existing studies have investigated the environmental dividends of substituting high-speed rail for other energy-intensive vehicles from an engineering standpoint, but they have yet to explore the economic effects of high-speed rail and the associated carbon emission reduction benefits. To fill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012665606