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The article focuses on the cacophony of renewable energy sources and the dynamic wave of electricity supply in jurisdictions like The United Kingdom, Canada, and Europe.The article discovers diverse opinions and statistics on the use of renewable energy sources. It was discovered that a process...
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Arbitration serves as a dispute resolution mechanism for commercial disputes. The COVID-19 pandemic seriously affected the arbitration proceedings thereby making the proceedings to be done virtually. The work is based on the relative arrangement of the arbitral proceedings and COVID-10 pandemic...
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There are no other two countries in the world that trade as much between themselves as do Canada and the U.S. It should thus come as no surprise that the U.S. deviation from international obligations makes Canadian industries' competitiveness (trade) concerns become even more rigorous. Against...
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South-Eastern European (SEE) countries are typically keen to maintain the status quo in their energy systems, generally characterized by underinvestment, high coal share and utility affordability needs. Their energy mixes have historically been determined by external factors, currently mainly...
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We explore whether COVID-19 disproportionately affected women in the labor market using CPS data through the end of 2020. We find that male-female gaps in the employment-to-population ratio and hours worked for women with school-age children have widened but not for those with younger children....
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The debate about the use of fiscal instruments for macroeconomic stabilization has regained prominence in the aftermath of the Great Recession, and its relevance has suddenly increased further, after the recent Covid-19 shock. The analysis of fiscal stabilization in the United States, a monetary...
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Whether or not current U.S.-China strategic competition may be properly named a new Cold War, it is useful to compare the regimes of the United States and the European Union to better understand how domestic FDI screening mechanisms are growing in importance as a foreign policy tool (e.g....
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We develop a model to analyze and to compare the corporate leniency programs in the EU and the USA. Both programs are based on the idea that strategic interactions between the team members can be used to increase expected fines by being generous to self-reporting firms. This is in sharp contrast...
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This article measures the impact of contracting on partial and total factor productivity and the production technology of U.S. hog operations. A sample selection model accounts for the fact that unobservable variables may be correlated with both the operators' decision to contract and farm...
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We use a stylized model to show that, if transfers to the poor are founded on a security argument, there is a negative trade-off between law enforcement expenditures and criminality. In contrast, if transfers are based on altruism, the correlation between the same variables may appear positive....
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