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More Baskets? Renewable Energy and Energy Security

Lehr, Ulrike - 2009

Energy security increasingly becomes an issue in the face of rising worldwide energy demand and dwindling resources …. Threats to energy security are seen in political instabilities of resource exporting countries, decreasing reserves …, geostrategic and geopolitical factors and the structure of the relevant energy markets in terms of market power, monopolies …

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Energi, stabilitet och tillväxt i svensk ekonomi

Ysander, Bengt-Christer - 1981

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Returns in commodities futures markets and financial speculation: a multivariate GARCH approach

Manera, Matteo; Nicolini, Marcella; Vignati, Ilaria - 2012

This paper analyses futures prices for four energy commodities (light sweet crude oil, heating oil, gasoline and …

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A new global index on infrastructure: Construction, rankings and applications

Donaubauer, Julian; Meyer, Birgit; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2014

We construct comprehensive and comparable indices on the most relevant components of economic infrastructure. An unobserved components model is employed to cover the largest possible number of developing and developed countries over the period 1990-2010. We map major findings from the new...

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The role of heterogeneous agents in fuel markets: Testing tales of speculators in oil markets

Fritz, Andreas; Stein, Michael; Weber, Christoph - 2015

This study investigates the role of heterogeneous agents in oil markets and tests tales of speculators in oil price formation. Results obtained from using a non-linear heterogeneous agent model suggest that oil market prices are driven by different groups of speculators, namely fundamentalists,...

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Economic damage control for greenhouse gas emissions

Gottinger, Hans W. - 1999

Future emissions of trace gases are intrinsically linked to economic growth and abatement policies, which in turn, are governed by expectations of greenhouse damages. Trace gas indices that depend upon future emissions can be calculated either on the basis of emissions scenarios, such as those...

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Integrating climate policies in the European environment: A policy report

Carraro, Carlo; Goria, Alessandra - 1999

This report summarises the main ideas, proposals, scientific achievements, consensus and conflicting issues that emerged at the Second EFIEA Policy Workshop, held at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Palazzo delle Stelline, Corso Magenta 63, Milan, Italy, March 4th-6th, 1999. EFIEA, the European...

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Putting Power Back Into Growth Theory

Fix, Blair - 2014

Neoclassical growth theory assumes that economic growth is an atomistic process in which changes in distribution play no role. Unfortunately, when this assumption is tested against real-world evidence, it is systematically violated. This paper argues that a reality-based growth theory must...

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Uneven and Combined Confusion: On the Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism and the Rise of the West

Di Muzio, Tim; Dow, Matthew - 2016

transition to coal energy and the capitalization of state power as it relates to war, colonialism and slavery. We conclude by …

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Energy and Institution Size

Fix, Blair - 2016

. This paper offers a new approach that focuses on energy consumption. A systematic relation exists between institution size … and energy consumption per capita: as energy consumption increases, institutions become larger. I hypothesize that this … stochastic model can be used to link energy consumption with firm dynamics. …

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