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A comprehensive evaluation of the EU's biofuel policy: From biofuels to agrofuels
Murnaghan, Kitty - 2017
During a time in which the subject of climate change is deemed high on the list of priorities of many governments, it is important to assess to what extent policies in this field are achieving meaningful results. The link between energy usage and global warming is clear and today in the European...
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Bidding behaviour in interdependent markets for electricity and green certificates
Ganhammar, Kajsa - 2023
Market-based climate policies have received increased attention, making it important to understand how such politically created markets affect competition in the electricity market. This paper focuses on the green certificate policy which financially supports producers of renewably sourced...
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Should green jobs be outsourced?
Philips, Peter - 2013
The proposed Sempra 1250 megawatt (MW) tieline connecting the California grid to envisioned new wind-farms in Mexico is …
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Scaling up rooftop solar power in India: The potential of municipal solar bonds
Trivedi, Saurabh; Ray, Indro; Vulturius, Gregor; … - 2018
India has made great progress in reaching its ambitious goal to scale up renewable energy capacity to 175 GW in 2022. Solar power plays a central part in achieving this goal and installations of utility scale power have seen a dramatic increase in the last few years. Rooftop solar, however, is...
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How to go green? The effects of power system flexibility on the efficient transition to renewable generation
Neetzow, Paul - 2019
For decarbonization purposes, variable renewable energies (VRE) are widely and quickly deployed in historically fossil-dominated power systems. Yet, some fossil technologies are more suitable than others for integration with VRE due to their higher exibility. I utilize an analytically tractable...
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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...
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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...
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Asymmetric labor force participation decisions over the business cycle: Evidence from US microdata
Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Robertson, John C. - 2006
asymmetry and sensitivity of labor force participation decisions are found across gender, age, and education groups, and these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292322
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How should we organize schooling to further children with migration background?
Schneeweis, Nicole - 2006
exist that quantify the disadvantage of immigrant children in education and there has not been any attempt to identify … institutional conditions of the education system that contribute to educational integration. Using data from five international …)integration is related to institutional characteristics of the schooling system. The study shows that early education, time in school …
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Reducing start-up costs for New Firms: The double dividend on the labor market
Dulleck, Uwe; Frijters, Paul; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
insurance against unemployment caused by labor market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show within … a matching model that reducing the start-up costs for new firms results in higher take-up rates of education. It also …
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