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The Driving Force behind the Boom and Bust in Construction in Europe

Sun, Yan; Mitra, Pritha; Simone, Alejandro - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

This paper studies the factors behind pro-cyclical but widely varying construction shares (as a percent of GDP) across … the key determinants of a norm around which actual construction shares revolve in a simple AR(1) and error …-correction process. The empirical results show that in many European countries, construction shares overshoot relative to their norms …

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Weak Investment Dampens Europe's Growth

Baldi, Guido; Fichtner, Ferdinand; Michelsen, Claus; … - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 4 (2014) 7, pp. 8-21

conditions. On the other hand, especially in southern European economies, investment -- mostly in the home construction sector …

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An Investment Agenda for Europe

Fichtner, Ferdinand; Fratzscher, Marcel; Gornig, Martin - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 4 (2014) 7, pp. 3-6

Only strong economic growth will help Europe emerge from its crisis. The reforms implemented to date at national and European level have failed to impact the economypositively; this is due to excessive national, corporate, and private debts, the flawed banking system, the lack of structural...

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The U.K.'s first windfarm - The birth of an industry

Edwards, P.D. - In: Renewable Energy 5 (1994) 1, pp. 637-641

The U.K.'s First Windfarm - The Birth of an Industry shows how an idea in 1980 developed into the successful operation of the first commercial windfarm. It was not until 1988 that the prospect for a viable commercial windfarm in the U.K. became realistic. In that year many of the essential...

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Indigenous courtyard houses

Al-Azzawi, Subhi - In: Renewable Energy 5 (1994) 5, pp. 1099-1123

Indigenous courtyard houses (particularly those in towns and cities in the regions of the hot-dry climates) have largely satisfied the needs of their inhabitants from many points of view. They have also made a positive contribution to the housing stock, built environment, architectural output,...

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Water poverty in the northeastern hill region (India): potential alleviation through multiple-use water systems: cross-learnings from Nepal Hills

Sharma, Bharat R.; Riaz, M. V.; Pant, Dhruba; Adhikary, … - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 2010

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A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE BUILDING STOCK IN EU AND ROMANIA

Romila, Claudiu - In: CES Working Papers 5(1) (2013), pp. 81-91

Buildings occupy an important role in our modern society. However, the existing buildings have a very low thermal protection, leading to high levels of energy consumption making the buildings sector among the most significant CO2 source in Europe. Even if new buildings have high performance...

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Financing Road Construction and Maintenance After the Fuel Tax Reform

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2012

road construction and maintenance. The research includes an assessment of the impacts, successes, and challenges of the …

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Procesos de medición sectorial en Boyacá. El caso de la construcción

Isaza, Francisco Goraldo; Corredor, Dolly Yazmín Camacho - In: REVISTA APUNTES DEL CENES (2001)

development of sector measuring processes in Boyacá". This document includes the results of the first construction census done in …

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Construction and economic development:empirical evidence for the period 2000-2011

Girardi, Daniele; Mura, Antonio - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2013

This article provides evidence of an inverted U-shaped relationship between the share of construction in GDP and … relative level of construction activity tends to increase in developing countries, to peak during industrialization and to … and construction activity level. …

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