The adoption of wind energy has grown significantly in recent years. New, cost-effective technologies have been developed, led by customer awareness of green technologies and a legal framework proposed at the European Union level. The stochastic nature of wind speed is transferred to wind...

We predict the portfolio of COVID-19 vaccination drivers through a large set of Machine Learning techniques for 5 European countries. Risk perceptions matter, on top of citizens’ trust anchored in how institutions have been performing to fight the pandemic before vaccine discovery. We also...

In this paper we study international linkages when forecasting unemployment rates in a sample of 24 OECD economies. We propose a Global Unemployment Factor (GUF) and test its predictive ability considering in-sample and out-of-sample exercises. Our main results indicate that the predictive...

Efforts to reduce emissions to counter climate change are expected to have both costs andbenefits, and these effects are likely to be unevenly distributed across the population. Weexamined the potential distributional impacts on employment in New Zealand from usingdifferent mitigation options...

In the last year, many advocates have called for the imposition of Carterfone regulation on the wireless industry. The FCC partially heeded this call when it imposed open platform regulations on one substantial block of spectrum (the Upper C block) that was recently part of the record-setting...

We use newly-available Indian panel data to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. We show that the forecasts significantly affect farmer investment decisions and that these responses account for a substantial fraction of the inter-annual...