The 2009 Renewable Energies Directive (RED) has set up ambitious targets concerning biofuel consumption in the European Union by 2020. Nevertheless, budgetary constraints and growing concerns about the environmental integrity of first-generation biofuels have imposed a phasing out of the fiscal...

Empirically investigates the shock relationship of exchange rate volatility on bilateral trade flows between Nigeria and India. Vector Autoregressive Model (VAR) 1. The innovations of Nigeria trade flows shocks to related India price and income shocks shows that it generates inconsistencies that...

We reassess, with industry-level data, the scale effect from trade protection, by means of a comprehensive fixed-cost variable, composing both technology coeficient and firms size, and a comparative (international) analysis. Evidence is based on Brazil’s manufacturing industries during its...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the network effect on the probability of job finding. This paper uses a specific data set from the Izmir region, prepared by the Turkish Statistical Institute for a specific project carried out by Izmir University of Economics in cooperation with the Izmir...

This paper builds a DSGE model in which future wage assignments are introduced as collateral for risky consumer and housing loans, in addition to standard BGG-type loans to entrepreneurs. Banks face matter-of-fact constraints in funding and lending markets, have liquidity targets, and are...

We examine the effect of output shocks in different regions of the world on South Africa, with the use of a customised global vector autoregression (GVAR) model for the country from 1980 to 2010. The aim of the paper is to compare the impact of economic shocks in different countries on the South...

Due to the high concentration of economic activity along the low-lying coastal zone of the Nile delta and its dependence on Nile river streamflow, Egypt's economy is highly exposed to adverse climate change. Adaptation planning requires a forward-lookingn assessment of climate change impacts on...

1 Introduction Prior to the cession of the Southern Sudan from the Sudan in July 2011, there were many challenges that trap the population of many areas of the country by poverty. The education, health, water and sanitation services are extremely poor as a result of the long civil conflict...

To access, with industry-level data, an ampler set of trade-policy effects under imperfect competition, which are: the competition, the scale and allocative effects. In theoretical terms, we rely on comparative advantages, underpinning the general-equilibrium analysis, and on spatial...

International technology spillovers can be categorised in two types: disembodied and embodied. Disembodied international technology spillovers are the flow of ideas that take place without the exchange of commodities. Examples of disembodied spillovers are present through workers’ mobility,...