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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012501728
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012501729
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Actors, Decision-making, and Institutions in Quantitative System Modelling
De Cian, Enrica; Dasgupta, Shouro; Hof, Andries F.; van … - 2017
Increasing the realism with respect to the representation of actors, decision-making, and institutions is critical to better understand the transition towards a low-carbon sustainable society since actors, decision-making, and institutions are the defining elements of transition pathways. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816749
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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
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Expropriation and the location of farmland investment: A theoretical investigation into the land rush
Rosete, Alfredo R. - 2015
governance whenever they anticipate similar levels of revenue among the set of countries they target, or, whenever they can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011788884
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Strategies for megaregion governance: Collaborative dialogue, networks and self organization
Innes, Judith E.; Booher, David E.; Di Vittorio, Sarah - 2010
interdependencies in their economies, infrastructure, and natural resources, but they are not linked well in terms of governance … governance strategies for such megaregions. As we have noted elsewhere, collaborative and networked processes can do many of the … needed tasks for regional governance, as they fill gaps where government fails to operate, cross jurisdictional and …
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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
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Can the Global Forest Sector Survive 11°C Warming?
Favero, Alice; Mendelsohn, Robert; Sohngen, Brent - 2017
It is well known that the forestry sector is sensitive to climate change but most studies have examined impacts only through 2100 and warming of less than 4°C. This is the first timber analysis to consider possible climate change impacts out to 2250 and warming up to 11°C above 1900 levels....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816743
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Do Temperature Thresholds Threaten American Farmland?
Massetti, Emanuele; Mendelsohn, Robert - 2017
Estimated Ricardian models have been criticized because they rely on mean temperatures and do not explicitly include extreme temperatures. This paper uses a cross sectional approach to compare a standard quadratic Ricardian model of mean temperature with a fully flexible daily temperature bin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816746
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Can the diligent governance increase subjective wellbeing? New evidence from environmental regulations in China
Guo, Shu; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2021
) from the perspective of diligent governance. Our results show that command-control environmental regulation (CER) and … voluntary environmental regulation (VER)have positive effects on SWB, but there exist the heterogeneity effects in the links … the people would place more weight on environmental governance as their income rises, and can help the government …
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