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The importance of manufacturing for industrialized countries has been reappraised, specifically in the wake of the financial crisis and of China's rise to world no 1 in manufacturing. A "new industrial policy" should bolster reindustrialization, different from the old selective and...
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Mali is a Sub-Saharan African country with 19.1 million people. Almost half of this population lives in poverty, due to the dysfunction of activity sectors (agriculture, energy, education, employment, services, etc.). Natural resource management especially land and water together with...
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The Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP), an initiative of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI), aims to demonstrate how countries can transform their energy systems by 2050 in order to...
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This paper investigates the interrelation between adaptation and climate protection efforts of individuals in a cross …, private adaptation and climate protection activities are determined by different factors and thus cannot be substitutes …. Considering seven climate protection and four adaptation measures, these theoretical predictions are tested empirically using …
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.2016 using a novel econometric strategy which links deviations of temperature and precipitation (weather) from their long …
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The high and increasing cost of natural disasters around the world motivates a growing body of literature on the role of natural disaster insurance in adapting to climate change. This chapter reviews current challenges in both public and private natural disaster insurance markets in the United...
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The aim of this paper is to enunciate a new way to estimate levelized cost of electric energy (LCOE), considering emission of greenhouse gases cost, by taking the theoretical cost of avoiding pollution as the emission cost. In this way, it would be comparable LCOE from different sources of...
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We study residential demand for electricity and gas, working with nationwide household-level data that cover recent … longitudinal component (up to 6 observations per dwelling). We estimate static and dynamic models of electricity and gas demand. We … of the own price elasticity of electricity demand in the -0.860 to -0.667 range, while the own price elasticity of gas …
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We study residential demand for electricity and gas, working with nationwide household-level data that cover recent … longitudinal component (up to 6 observations per dwelling). We estimate static and dynamic models of electricity and gas demand. We … of the own price elasticity of electricity demand in the -0.860 to -0.667 range, while the own price elasticity of gas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038295
electricity. We find that a lower heating price reduces winter mortality, driven mostly by cardiovascular and respiratory causes. …This paper examines how the price of home heating affects mortality in the US. Exposure to cold is one reason that … mortality peaks in winter, and a higher heating price increases exposure to cold by reducing heating use. It also raises energy …
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