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This Selected Issues paper analyzes the unconventional energy boom in North America, and its macroeconomic implications and challenges for Canada. The unconventional energy boom has had significant positive effects on Canada’s economic activity and has the potential to contribute even...
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This Selected Issues paper analyses the impact that rising energy import prices might have on growth and inflation in Ukraine. The paper examines how rising gas prices might elevate macrofiscal risks in Ukraine’s state enterprise sector. It assesses Ukraine’s equilibrium exchange...
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technologies changes when a carbon price is introduced. Different coal and gas price scenarios are explored, and some sensitivity … analysis is made of the relative market share of coal and gas under various carbon price levels. The objective of the paper is … (coal to natural gas) for different carbon price levels during Phase II (2008-2012) of the EU ETS. This country is indeed …
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We present evidence on one facet of energy security in OECD economies - the extent of diversification in sources of oil and natural gas supplies. Viewed from the perspective of the energy-importing countries as a whole, there has not been much change in diversification in oil supplies over the...
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is preparing sector assessments to help align future ADB support with the needs and strategies of developing member countries and other development partners. This assessment is a working document that helps inform the development of country partnership...
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oil, gasoline, heating oil, coal, natural gas, uranium and ethanol futures prices. This implies that the US major energy …
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demand for energy in general and electricity in particular. Coal is, and will most probably remain for a long time, the … "dirty" and nonsustainable, strategies based on traditional coal technologies. As demonstrated by the detailed analyses … external costs, can be achieved by implementation of scrubbers and other "clean-coal" technologies, together with fuel …
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This paper examines the techno-economic viability of hydrogen production from underground coal gasification (UCG) in … sustainable hydrogen production; given its negligible feedstock cost, the enormity of deep coal reserves in Western Canada and the …
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-term dynamics of the prices of CO2 emissions in response to changes in the prices of oil, coal, natural gas, electricity and carbon … shock to the prices of the fuel of choice, coal, has virtually no significant impact on the CO2 prices; (iv) there is a … clear positive effect of the coal prices on the CO2 allowance prices when the electricity prices are excluded from the VAR …
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the vector error-correction Models (VECM). The data are monthly for the prices of oil, coal, natural gas, electricity and … shock to the prices of the fuel of choice, coal, has virtually no significant impact on the CO2 prices; (iv) there is a … clear positive effect of the coal prices on the CO2 prices when the electricity prices are excluded from the VAR system; and …
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