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Territorial governance in the context of RIS3 smart specialisation strategy
Castillo, Jaime Del; Paton, Jonatan; Barroeta, Belen - 2014
In the current new competitive environment, smart specialization has emerged strongly as a territorial development model to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of economic systems. An aspect from which it differs from previous models is the special emphasis on governance. In this...
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Rent taxation for nonrenewable resources
Lund, Diderik - 2009
The literature on taxation of rents from nonrenewable resources uses different theoretical assumptions and methods and a variety of empirical observations to arrive at widely diverging conclusions. Many studies use models and methods which disregard uncertainty, investigating distortionary...
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Can the world get along without natural resources?
Fix, Blair - 2020
In the distant future, aliens come to Earth. They find a planet devoid of life. Looking closer, the aliens see that life on Earth was once abundant, but was wiped out by a mass extinction. Curiously, this event was driven not by geological disaster, but by one of the extinct species itself. In...
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Energy Price Reform in China
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2018
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 energy pricing reform since 1984 has been moving away from the prices … pace and scale of the reform differ across energy types. This article discusses the evolution of price reforms for coal …
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Energy Prices, Subsidies and Resource Tax Reform in China
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2014
the market a decisive role in allocating resources. To have the market to play that role, getting the energy prices right … is crucial because it sends clear signals to both producers and consumers of energy. While the overall trend of China …'s energy pricing reform since 1984 has been moving away from the pricing completely set by the central government in the …
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Day-of-the-week effect: Petroleum and petroleum products
Meek, Andrew C.; Hoelscher, Seth A. - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 11 (2023) 1, pp. 1-19
, specifically, the day-of-the-week (DOW) effect. The energy future contracts in this study are the WTI (West Texas Intermediate … commodities nearing expiration. Our research shows that the DOW effect varies across the respective energy commodities; however …
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ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКИЙ АНАЛИЗ БИОЭНЕРГЕТИКИ, КАК ИСТОЧНИКА ДОХОДОВ АГРАРНЫХ ПРЕДПРИЯТИЙ
Ma­kar­chuk, Oksana; Hockmann, Heinrich; Lissitsa, Aleksej - 2007
cultivation of agricultural crops for the energy, heat, fuel (biofuel) manufacture. In this discussion paper the market is … depends on the state energy policy. In the work it is also shown that the production of biofuel is not competitive without …
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Scenarios and Options for Productivity Growth in Philippine Agriculture: An Application of the Agricultural Multimarket Model for Policy Evaluation (AMPLE)
Briones, Roehlano M. - 2010
Sustaining and accelerating agricultural growth remains a development imperative in view of persistent rural poverty and emerging threats to food security. While growth can be achieved by expansion of agricultural area and input intensification, growth through improvement in productivity is a...
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Assessing the macroeconomic impact of bank intermediation shocks: A structural approach
Chen, Kaiji; Zha, Tao - 2015
We take a structural approach to assessing the empirical importance of shocks to the supply of bank-intermediated credit in affecting macroeconomic fluctuations. First, we develop a theoretical model to show how credit supply shocks can be transmitted into disruptions in the production economy....
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Cyclical and Market Determinants of Involuntary Part-Time Employment
Valletta, Robert G.; Bengali, Leila; van der List, Catherine - 2016
We examine the determinants of involuntary part-time employment, focusing on variation associated with the business cycle and variation attributable to more persistent structural features of the labor market. Our theoretical framework distinguishes between workers' decision to seek part-time...
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