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Geographical Spread of Global Emissions: Within-country Inequalities Are Increasing
Sauter, Caspar; Grether, Jean-Marie; Mathys, Nicole A. - 2015
The major greenhouse gases, CO2 and CH4, are uniformly mixing, but spatial inequalities in emissions do matter in terms of both efficiency and equity of environmental policy formation and implementation. As the recent evidence has mainly focused on convergence issues between countries, this...
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From Ghana to America: The Skill Content of Jobs and Economic Development
Lo Bello, Salvatore; Sanchez Puerta, Maria Laura; … - 2019
There is a growing body of literature exploring the skill content of jobs. This paper contributes to this research by using data on the task content of occupations in developing countries, instead of U.S. data, as most existing studies do. The paper finds that indexes based on U.S. data do not...
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Technology, Skills, and Globalization: Explaining International Differences in Routine and Nonroutine Work Using Survey Data
Lewandowski, Piotr; Park, Albert; Hardy, Wojciech; Du, Yang - 2019
The shift away from manual and routine cognitive work, and towards non-routine cognitive work is a key feature of labor markets. There is no evidence, however, if the relative importance of various tasks differs between workers performing seemingly similar jobs in different countries. We develop...
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Estimación del impacto de las TICS en el Bienestar: Una aproximación empírica mediante un modelo MIMIC
Escalante Pacheco, Diego - 2018
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The market for short-term debt securities in Europe: What we know and what we do not know
Darpeix, Pierre-Emmanuel - 2022
In March 2020, against the backdrop of a worsening Covid crisis, some segments of the money market fund (MMF) industry faced severe redemption pressures. Given their central role within the short term funding market, MMFs were at the heart of financial stability concerns, and legitimately...
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How proper measurement of low carbon hydrogen's carbon intensity can reduce regulatory risk
Barnes, Alex - 2024
Low carbon hydrogen (whether based on renewable or nuclear electricity, or fossil fuels with carbon capture) is a means … intervention (e.g. mandatory targets, subsidies, decarbonisation policies) so low carbon hydrogen is subject to significant … regulatory risk. The boundary between low carbon hydrogen and electrification is not clear cut. Low carbon hydrogen needs to …
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Hydrogen for the "low hanging fruits" of South America: Decarbonising hard-to-abate sectors in Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, and Chile
Gomes, Ieda; Patonia, Aliaksei; Gogorza, Agustín; … - 2024
Hydrogen produced with minimal or no carbon emissions is often expected to become an important tool for meeting climate … seems unlikely that clean hydrogen will be used by all industries that require decarbonization. However, many researchers … transition to hydrogen is anticipated to be more feasible and often less complex compared with other industries. While …
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Navigating turbulence: Hydrogen's role in the decarbonization of the aviation sector
Alsulaiman, Abdurahman - 2024
technologies such as battery electric and hydrogen-based systems, assessing their potential impact on sustainability within the …
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Prospects of the Chinese coal chemical industry in an increasingly carbon-constrained world
Tu, Kevin Jianjun - 2024
In 2020, the Chinese coal chemical industry processed nearly one quarter of national coal throughput, and accounted for about 5.4 per cent of national CO2 emissions. Yet the coal chemicals' industry ability to limit oil and gas imports is appealing to the Chinese leadership in the context of...
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Contracts for difference: The instrument of choice for the energy transition
Ason, Agnieszka; Dal Poz, Julio - 2024
, initially mainly in Europe and Asia, on CfD-based business models for clean hydrogen and carbon capture and storage ('CCS …
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