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Caspian region: the geopolitical implications for European energy strategy
Aydin, Ulviyye; Azhgaliyeva, Dina - 2019
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Western countries have signed several agreements regarding the use of hydrocarbon resources in the Caspian Basin, with the aim of diversifying their energy suppliers. However, recession in the world economy and persistently low oil prices have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110274
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European Policies towards Palm Oil – Sorting Out some Facts
Pehnelt, Gernot; Vietze, Christoph - 2009
This paper analyses the role of palm oil and its sustainability from different perspectives. We consider the role of palm oil within the GHG context. We discuss the impact of palm oil on biodiversity and analyse how palm oil can contribute to economic growth and development in tropical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003905716
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Quo vadis European biofuel policy : the case of rapeseed biodiesel
Pehnelt, Gernot; Vietze, Christoph - 2013
The European Unionś (EU) Renewable Energy Directive (RED) continues to be the focus of much debate over the validity of biofuel sustainability. The debate is driven in part by ongoing concerns of transparency and regional variations of emissions from feedstock cultivation and processing. In a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009736800
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The green industrial revolution : investment pathways to decarbonize the industrial sector in Europe
Zimmer, Markus; Hoffmann, Patrick - 2023
The industrial sector is responsible for roughly one quarter of global greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. To align sector pathway developments with overarching net-zero transition goals in different industries, governments are required to understand sectoral reduction potentials to efficiently...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014295121
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Investments and financial flows induced by climate mitigation policies
Bastianin, Andrea; Favero, Alice; Massetti, Emanuele - 2010
In this paper we use the hybrid integrated model WITCH to quantify and analyze the investments and financial flows stimulated by a climate policy to stabilize Greenhouse Gases concentrations at 550ppm CO2-eq at the end of the century. We focus on investments to decarbonize the power sector and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008702313
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Ökologisch nachhaltig oder nicht? : die Einführung der EU Taxonomy for Sustainable Activities : ein verbindliches Klassifikationssystem nachhaltiger Wirtschaftsaktivitäten in der E...
Friedrich, Peter; Wendland, Finn - 2021
in capital markets across the EU. This study sheds light on the impli-cations of the EU taxonomy for financial market … companies to access new sources of sustainable finance on capital markets and to close the investment gap to achieve …, to improve the functioning and alloca-tive efficiency of capital markets, and to leverage finance for sustainable …
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Re-allocating taxing rights and minimum tax rates in international profit taxation
Kempkes, Gerhard; Stähler, Nikolai - 2021
, lower expected future output requires less capital in production in the long run. Firms hence invest less and (temporarily …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012433663
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Product differentiation and oligopoly : a network approach
Pellegrino, Bruno - 2023
This paper develops a theory of oligopoly and markups in general equilibrium. Firms compete in a network of product market rivalries that emerges endogenously out of the characteristics of the products and services they supply. My model embeds a novel, highly tractable and scalable demand system...
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Growing like Germany : local public debt, local banks, low private investment
Hoffmann, Mathias; Stewen, Iryna; Stiefel, Michael - 2021 - This version: December 2020, first version: August 2019
The paper uses a panel of more than 1m German firms over 2010-2016, to provide the first firm-bank level evidence of local crowding out for a developed economy characterized by low interest rates and fiscal austerity. Our mechanism relies on two structural features of Germany's banking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013330594
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Looking for PeripheRurality
Camaioni, Beatrice; Esposti, Roberto; Lobianco, Antonello; … - 2013
Rural areas still play a major role within the EU, as Europe is still a fairly rural continent. Moreover, EU rural areas are going through greater challenges and major transformations. After the Eastern enlargements of the EU (in 2004 and 2007), they are getting more and more heterogeneous, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010426659