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The Changing Role of Natural Gas in Nigeria: A policy outlook for energy security and sustainable development
Occhiali, Giovanni; Falchetta, Giacomo - 2018
Nigeria is richly endowed with energy resources, and the Government has been making large profits from their export. However, windfall revenues have also been affecting the Government’s responsiveness and accountability towards the people and they have brought it into collusive relationship...
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The Impact of China’s Electricity Deregulation on Coal and Power Industries: Two-stage Game Modeling Approach
Liu, HuiHui; Zhang, ZhongXiang; Chen, ZhanMing; Dou, DeSheng - 2018
hold with respect to the electricity generation efficiency and price elasticity of electricity demand. …
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Energy Price Reform in China
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2018
The Chinese leadership has determined to assign the market a decisive role in allocating resources. To have the market to play that role, getting the energy prices right is crucial because this sends clear signals to both producers and consumers of energy. While the overall trend of China’s...
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Effects of Carbon Tax on Electricity Price Volatility: Empirical Evidences from the Australian Market
Comincioli, Nicola; Vergalli, Sergio - 2020
Among the wide variety of policy options adopted worldwide to control carbon emissions, one of the most environmentally effective and economically efficient is represented by carbon tax, that aims to recoup the damage arising from polluting production processes. In this paper, we focus on the...
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The connectedness of Energy Transition Metals
Bastianin, Andrea; Casoli, Chiara; Galeotti, Marzio - 2023
We assess the degree of connectedness among 16 metals that are critical for the production of clean energy technologies. These commodities are the constituents of the Energy Transition Metals (ETMs) price index maintained by the International Monetary Fund and comprise base, precious, and minor...
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The Adverse Effect of Energy-Efficiency Policy
Voss, Achim - 2019
heterogeneity into account. A moderate minimum-efficiency standard increases demand for efficiency-enhancing household capital goods …, and reduces energy demand. More stringent policy is shown to be less effective or even counterproductive. For the case of … energy demand. Finally, I analyze which households benefit from minimum-efficiency standards and which ones lose. A standard …
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Igniting deliberation in high stake decisions: A field study
Hefti, Andreas; Shen, Peiyao; Li, King King - 2021
We conduct a large scale randomized field experiment to study whether providing recipients - 42,454 Chinese households in a rural area - with information on the costs of a real decision they make can help to improve the quality of their choices. The decisions are of high financial impact, as the...
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How do oil producers respond to oil demand shocks?
Güntner, Jochen - 2013
This paper analyzes the response of international oil producers to demand-induced changes in the real price of oil … demand shocks within the same month, and that the corresponding impact price elasticities of supply are not statistically … different from zero. Although there is little evidence of a systematic response following a typical flow demand shock, the …
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The effects of oil supply and demand shocks on U.S. consumer Sentiment
Güntner, Jochen H. F.; Linsbauer, Katharina - 2016
.S. households' expectations about current and future economic conditions - responds to structural oil supply and demand shocks. We … supply shocks have little effect on the ICS, other oil demand shocks such as a precautionary demand shock, for example, have … a statistically significant negative impact over a two-year horizon. The effect of aggregate demand shocks associated …
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How do oil producers respond to giant oil field discoveries?
Güntner, Jochen H. F. - 2017
This paper studies how petroleum producers respond to a giant oil field discovery. Using a large panel of country-level production data and a difference-in-differences identification approach, I show that domestic production levels respond before a newly found oil field has come on line,...
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