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Ethical framework for assessing research, production and use of energy

Maurizio SALVI (contributor) - Europäische Kommission / European Group on Ethics in … - 2013

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Do financial investors destabilize the oil price?

Lombardi, Marco J.; Van Robays, Ine - 2011

In this paper, we assess whether and to what extent financial activity in the oil futures markets has contributed to destabilize oil prices in recent years. We define a destabilizing financial shock as a shift in oil prices that is not related to current and expected fundamentals, and thereby...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009640835

Consumer inflation expectations in Poland

£yziak, Tomasz - 2003

Inflation expectations constitute a subject of particular contemporary interest to central banks, especially those pursuing a monetary policy based on a strategy of direct inflation targeting. Macroeconomic theory indicates that the transmission of monetary policy impulses and their impact on...

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Consumption, habit persistence, imperfect information and the lifetime budget constraint

Willman, Alpo - 2003

on future income realisations. Estimation results support the hypothesis that, although front-loaded, consumers have a …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635925

evidence from a survey of Dutch households

Cruijsen, Carin van der; Jansen, David-Jan; Haan, Jakob de - 2010

households, we investigate these questions for the case of the European Central Bank (ECB). Our findings suggest that knowledge …

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Mortgage indebtedness and household financial distress

Georgarakos, Dimitris; Lojschova, Adriana; … - 2010

unobserved heterogeneity. We show that households evaluate their own debt burden partly in comparison with the debt position of …Using comparable survey data from twelve European countries from 1994 to 2001 we investigate households’ attitudes … holders relative to countries where a significant part of households uses mortgage debt. This effect is net of ppp …

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Choosing and using payment instruments

Kalckreuth, Ulf von; Schmidt, Tobias; Stix, Helmut - 2009

Germans are still very fond of using cash. Of all direct payment transactions, cash accounts for an astounding 82% in terms of number, and for 58% in terms of value. With a new and unique dataset that combines transaction information with survey data on payment behaviour of German consumers, we...

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How effective are rewards programs in promoting payment card usage?

Carbó-Valverde, Santiago; Liñares-Zegarra, José M. - 2009

Card issuers have mainly relied on rewards programs as their main strategic driver to increase electronic payments. However, there is scarce evidence on the effectiveness of rewards programs. This paper offers novel evidence on two key issues: i) it measures the impact of rewards programs on the...

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Subprime consumer credit demand

Alan, Sule; Dumitrescu, Ruxandra; Loranth, Gyongyi - 2011

We test the interest rate sensitivity of subprime credit card borrowers using a unique panel data set from a UK credit card company. What is novel about our contribution is that we were given details of a randomized interest rate experiment conducted by the lender between October 2006 and...

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Energy corridors

2007

The ENCOURAGED (Energy corridor optimisation for European markets of gas, electricity and hydrogen) project has been … neighbouring countries. The objectives of the project are to: assess the economic optimal energy (electricity, gas and hydrogen …

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