This paper analyses a set of new scenarios for energy markets in Europe to evaluate the consistency of economic incentives and climate objectives. It focuses in particular on the role of natural gas across a range of climate policy scenarios (including the Copenhagen Pledges and the EU Roadmap)...

This paper provides an information technology perspective of energy that can help explain and promote more environmentally friendly energy sources. Following the equation energy equals mass times velocity squared (E = m * v2), a source 10 times more massive will produce 10 times more energy, but...

In a setting where the market-based economy is gradually yielding to a network-based economy, and social and economic relations are increasingly based on networking, banks are not exempt from changes brought about by developments in ICT and the Internet permeating every pore of social and...

It is well known that when high economic growth rates are not supported by the diversity of the economy and the faster development of human capital, then the economic growth efficiency will be understated [1].Unfortunately, lately and nowadays only one direction of innovation activity prevails...

Transport is the only sector in the EU in which greenhouse gas emissions are still rising. This paper uses the FTT (future technology transformation) framework to project energy use and emissions from passenger cars in the EU 27 until 2050. Projections are made based on four policy scenarios in...

This paper developes a unied growth model capturing issues of endogenous economic growth, fertility, infant mortality, technological progress, education and environmental qual- ity to interpret the evolution of history from Malthusian stagnation regime, through the demographic transition to...

Using a sample of 15 OECD countries, this paper investigates whether free trade agreements (FTAs) enhance R&D spillovers across national borders and if institutions play some role in affecting this knowledge diffusion process. Dynamic panel regressions employing advanced estimation technique...

Like many other modern information technologies, intelligent agents and multiagent systems are used successfully in many economic areas as electronic commerce, marketing or company management. But, technology intelligent agents, multiagent systems by default, can be successfully applied in...

Our paper aims to establish a referential framework for optimal management of forestry accounting knowledge, in order to develop an intelligent system for forest accounting units. In our approach we pointed out advantages of using intelligent systems in accounting, and established forest...