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-based analysis of water supply and demand, highlights the climate-land-energy-water-socioeconomics (CLEWS) nexus contributions to … key water-using sectors such as agriculture, energy and water supply. This assessment is grounded on a physically … water security in the region and addresses uncertainty in projections and their implications through a variety of potential …
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, technological change is highly uncertain and capital intensive, requiring risky efforts in research and development of clean energy … produced by climate-economy models while introducing the dimension of uncertainty in innovation ef- forts, without succumbing … evaluating optimal near-term innovation investment portfolios in four key clean energy technologies (solar, biofuels …
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We use variation in the effect of US-wide or global uncertainty on state-level uncertainty to identify the impact of … this shock on real activity. We ?nd that increases in uncertainty do have an adverse impact on real income, employment and … unemployment. Thus, uncertainty shocks can be a source of economic fluctuations. …
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, and energy. At the same time, natural resources are under increasing pressure from population growth, environmental … sectors will be crucial and the energy sector has an important role to play. As recognized in the Agenda 2030, the energy … sector holds the key to many aspects of development, however no energy solution (albeit green or synergetic) should be …
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This paper investigates the determinants of profit change over the period 1991-2008 for the Water and Sewerage Companies (WaSCs) in the English and Welsh water and sewerage industry. We firstly apply an input oriented profit decomposition approach following the approach of De Witte & Saal...
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The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of regulation in the financial performance of the Water and Sewerage companies (WaSCs) in England and Wales. We apply a panel index approach across WaSCs over time to decompose unit-specific (temporal) index number based profitability growth as a...
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The purpose of this paper is to develop a methodology which can be used to set X-factor under price cap schemes, when the number of observations is limited. We firstly apply a panel index approach across Water and Sewerage companies (WaSCs) over time to decompose unit-specific index number based...
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The purpose of this paper is the evaluation of various profit drivers such as price changes, productivity changes and quality levels on the financial performance of the Water and Sewerage Companies (WaSCs) over time in the case when the number of observations is limited. We thereby follow...
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This paper discusses a framework for analyzing robust institutions for water markets drawn on the new institutional economics school of thoughts which is based on Williamson, North, Coase and Ostrom theories on transaction cost economics, property rights and collective actions. Based on these...
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The current Water Abstraction License (WAL) regime in Italy is no longer flexible enough to cope with the challenges posed by human-induced climate and global environmental changes. The cornerstones of the current regime were laid down in the 1930s and have remained essentially unchanged ever...
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