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Projected refined product balances in key Latin American countries: A preliminary examination
2009
Over the years, the East-West Center (EWC) has developed considerable expertise in refinery modeling, especially in the area of forecasting product balances for countries, given planned capacity changes, changes in product demand, changes in crude slates, and changes in product specifications....
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Carbon mitigation potential and costs of forestry options in Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, the Philippines and Tanzania
Sathaye, J.; Makundi, W.; Andrasko, K.; Boer, R.; … - 2009
This paper summarizes studies of carbon (C) mitigation potential and costs of about 40 forestry options in seven developing countries. Each study uses the same methodological approach - Comprehensive Mitigation Assessment Process (COMAP) - to estimate the above parameters between 2000 and 2030....
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Promising Business Models for Community-Company Collaboration in Brazil and Mexico
Vidal, Natália G.; Donini, Gabriela - 2004
. Within this context, this study has been conducted in Brazil and Mexico with the aim of identifying potential partners in the … agreements in Brazil and Mexico are presented in Section 4. Finally, Section 5 discusses successful models and major trends on … related to the origin of forest company-community agreements as well as information about these partnerships in Mexico and …
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What if the UK has Joined the Euro in 1999? An Empirical Evaluation using a Global VAR
Pesaran, M Hashem; Smith, L Vanessa; Smith, Ron P - 2005
We provide a conceptual framework to analysis counterfactual scenarios using macroeconometric models. We consider UK entry to the euro. We derive conditional probability distributions for the difference between the future realisations of variables of interest subject to UK entry restrictions...
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The impact of interbank and public debt markets on the competition for bank deposists
Pérez Montes, Carlos - 2013
El crecimiento de los tipos de interés pagados por la deuda pública española desde 2008 y la disrupción del mercado interbancario han generado preocupación por sus efectos sobre la competencia del mercado de depósitos bancarios en España. Combino un modelo logit anidado de la oferta de...
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Adjustment is Much Slower than You Think
Caballero, Ricardo J.; Engel, Eduardo M.R.A. - 2003
In most instances, the dynamic response of monetary and other policies to shocks is infrequent and lumpy. The same holds for the microeconomic response of some of the most important economic variables, such as investment, labor demand, and prices. We show that the standard practice of estimating...
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Impact of crude-oil price volatility on economic activities: An empirical investigation in the Thai economy
School of Economics and Finance
This paper empirically examines the impact of oil price volatility on key macroeconomic indicators of Thailand. Following Andersen et al. [2004. Analytical evaluation of volatility forecasts. International Economic Review 45(4), 1079-1110], quarterly oil price volatility is measured by using the...
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Demystifying the supply of capital and labour in a nation?s economic chain
Zhou, Jie; Picken, David; Liu, Chunlu - 2010
Public capital has been considered to be the wheels of economic activity in a nation or region. The reverse effect, the contribution of economic growth to public capital, is also worth analysis. The non-structural vector auto-regression (VAR) approach is performed for the Australian economy...
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Dynamic effects of persistent shocks
Alloza, Mario; Gonzalo, Jesús; Sanz, Carlos
We show that several shocks identifi ed without restrictions from a model, and frequently used in the empirical literature, display some persistence. We demonstrate that the two leading methods to recover impulse responses to shocks (moving average representations and local projections) treat...
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Recent changes in investment in Spain from a macroeconomic perspective
Aguilar, Pablo; Ghirelli, Corinna; Jiménez García, Blanca
Rationale Cyclical fluctuations in investment are usually sharper than fluctuations in other components of aggregate demand. This article aims to analyse, based on an econometric model, the role played by interest rates, demand and agents’ confidence (the drivers traditionally studied in the...
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