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The Shifting Finance of Electricity Generation

Andonov, Aleksandar; Rauh, Joshua - 2022

We collect ownership data of U.S. power plants accounting for 99% of U.S. electricity generation over the 2008-2020 period. Domestic listed corporations have reduced their ownership from 69% to 54% of total generation, while private equity, institutional investors, and foreign corporations have...

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Uma avaliação comparativa da sustentabilidade do setor de energia brasileiro com os países da OCDE

Gutierrez, Maria Bernadete Gomes Pereira Sarmiento - 2022

This study has as main objective the assessment of the sustainability of the Brazilian energy sector compared to the … assessment of the sustainability of the Brazilian energy sector is undertaken compared to OECD countries. The results show not … only the relatively high sustainability of the Brazilian energy sector but also that the carbon market in legislative …

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The connection between oil and economic growth revisited

Torres, Nuno; Afonso, Óscar; Soares, Isabel - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2010

This study shows that the cross-section “curse” result found with oil abundance indicators for producing countries disappears in a panel estimation considering the most important growth factors. This happens even excluding institutional quality, which is hindered by oil and ores abundance in...

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La polpa e l’osso: Manlio Rossi-Doria Writings on Agriculture Environment and Natural Resources

Gorgoni, Marcello - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2005) 3

energy. Prevailing contents by section are as follows: first, land management, pasture improvement, soil protection, upland … policies; fourth, ecology, energy sources, including nuclear, and related policy issues. After presenting the structure of the …

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Trade and development in the 1980s

Chichilnisky, Graciela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1986

In international circles, the concern of the day is the state of the world economy. There is a general appreciation of the severity of the problem, but no widespread agreement about either diagnosis or solutions. We shall focus here on a particular set of topics that have emerged as major issues...

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Modeling International Trends in Energy Efficiency and Carbon Emissions

Stern, David I. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010

This study uses a stochastic production frontier to model trends in energy efficiency over time in a panel of 85 … a literature survey and theoretical model of the choice of energy efficiency technology. An improvement in a country …’s energy efficiency is measured as a reduction in energy intensity while holding constant the input and output structure of …

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Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal Metabolism and Jevons’ Paradox for Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland

Iorgulescu Polimeni, Raluca; Polimeni, John M. - In: Journal for Economic Forecasting 4 (2007) 4, pp. 61-76

International agencies and national governments base their energy strategies on gross domestic product (GDP) growth … rates and energy intensity goals. Given the complexity of the transition process from a command economy to an open …-market economy in Central and Eastern Europe, this paper argues that the use of energy intensity as an objective for the energy …

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Income, resources, and electricity mix

Burke, Paul J. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2010

. The extent to which countries climb the electricity ladder is dependent on energy endowments. The results imply that the … environmental implications of economic development differ in countries with different energy resource endowments. An effective …

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Geographic oil concentration and economic growth – a panel data analysis

Torres, Nuno; Afonso, Óscar; Soares, Isabel - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2009

Given a panel of oil producing countries, we show that a higher oil concentration is associated with an increase in economic growth through capital efficiency in: (i) countries with medium and low income per head from East Asia & Pacific and Latin America & the Caribbean, classified as followers...

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Analyzing Rebound Effects

Schettkat, Ronald - Universitätsbibliothek Wuppertal, University Library - 2009

Are efficiency improvements in the use of natural resources the key for sustainable development, are they the solution to environmental problems, or will second round effects –so-called rebound effects- compensate or even overcompensate potential savings, will they fire back? The answer to...

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