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Security of Supply for Natural Gas Markets. What is it and What is it not?
Luciani, Giacomo - 2004
The issue of security of gas supplies is frequently discussed on the basis of intuitive and non-systematic arguments. Greater import dependence is normally equated with greater insecurity, and strategic stocks are the risk management tool most commonly considered. This paper strives to offer a...
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The Tale of the German Gas Price Brake: Why We Need Economic Disaster Preparedness in Times of Overlapping Emergencies
Weber, Isabella; Beckmann, Thore; Thie, Jan-Erik - In: Intereconomics 58 (2023) 1, pp. 10-16
The gas price shock has been a major contributor to inflation in Germany. In this context, Dullien and Weber (2022a, b, c) proposed a two-tier pricing scheme for natural gas in the spring of 2022 that lowers the price for a base quota through a subsidy while maintaining high market prices on the...
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An EU Price Cap for Natural Gas: A Bad Idea Made Redundant by Market Forces
Gros, Daniel - In: Intereconomics 58 (2023) 1, pp. 27-31
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Import protection, business cycles, and exchange rates: Evidence from the great recession
Bown, Chad P.; Crowley, Meredith A. - 2011
This paper uses highly detailed, quarterly data for five major industrialized economies to estimate the impact of macroeconomic fluctuations on import protection policies over 1988:Q1 - 2010:Q4. First, estimates on a pre-Great Recession sample of data provide evidence of two key relationships....
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The reliability of Canadian output gap estimates
Cayen, Jean-Philippe; van Norden, Simon - 2004
current estimates of the output gap in Canada. We begin by assembling a new data base of quarterly realtime output estimates …
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Canadian Immigration Policy and Immigrant Economic Outcomes: Why the Differences in Outcomes between Sweden and Canada?
Picot, Garnett; Sweetman, Arthur - 2011
Immigrants to Canada enjoy labour market outcomes that are more favourable than those for their counterparts in Sweden …. In an effort to understand these gaps, Canada's immigration policy and outcomes are contrasted to the Swedish immigration … deteriorated significantly in Canada since the 1980s, as they have in many western countries including Sweden. …
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The Evolution of Male-Female Wages Differentials in Canadian Universities: 1970-2001
Warman, Casey; Woolley, Frances; Worswick, Christopher - 2006
universities over the period 1970 through 2001. The individual level data are collected by Statistics Canada from all universities … in Canada and are used to analyze the evolution of male-female wage differentials of professors in Canadian universities …
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You Can Take it with You! The Returns to Foreign Human Capital of Male Temporary Foreign Workers
Warman, Casey - 2007
The research on immigration has found falling labor market outcomes of immigrants in many Western countries. In Canada … foreign work experience for recent immigrant cohorts and now composes the majority of Canada's immigration. It is likely that … enter Canada under. While immigrants for the most part are selected by the government, the selection process for temporary …
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Earnings and Community College Field of Study Choice in Canada
Boudarbat, Brahim - 2004
In this paper, we estimate a structural model of choice of field of study by community college students. We use data from the Canadian Survey of Graduates for 12,871 individuals who successfully completed their programs in Canadian community colleges (CEGEPs in Quebec) in 1990 and 1995. Over...
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Cut-Point Shift and Index Shift in Self-Reported Health
Lindeboom, Maarten; van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2004
There is a concern that ordered responses on health questions may differ across populations or even across subgroups of a population. This reporting heterogeneity may invalidate group comparisons and measures of health inequality. This paper proposes a test for differential reporting in ordered...
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