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Greenwashing in the US metal industry? : a novel approach combining SO2 concentrations from satellite data, a plant-level firm database and web text mining

Schmidt, Sebastian; Kinne, Jan; Lautenbach, Sven; … - 2022

This Discussion Paper deals with the issue of greenwashing, i.e. the false portrayal of companies as environmentally friendly. The analysis focuses on the US metal industry, which is a major emission source of sulfur dioxide (SO2), one of the most harmful air pollutants. One way to monitor the...

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Are exporters more environmentally friendly? : a re-appraisal that uses China's micro-data

Pei, Jiansuo; Sturm, Bodo; Yu, Anqi - 2019

Is a firm's ability to export an important determinant of environmental performance? To answer this question, we construct a unique micro dataset that merged two rich firm-level datasets for China for 2007. When combining this new dataset with well-received empirical specifications, we found...

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Trade liberalization and SO2 emissions : firm-level evidence from China's WTO entry

Li, Lei; Löschel, Andreas; Pei, Jiansuo; Sturm, Bodo; … - 2020

Is trade liberalization contributing to cleaner production amongst manufacturing firms? Theoretical predictions and empirical evidences are mixed. This study utilizes China's dual trade regime and China's WTO entry in 2001 to construct a unique micro dataset on manufacturing firms for China for...

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Climate policies under dynamic international economic cycles : a heterogeneous countries DSGE model

Xiao, Bowen; Guo, Xiaodan; Fan, Ying; Voigt, Sebastian; … - 2020

In light of increased economic integration and global warming, addressing critical issues such as the role of multilateral climate policies and the strategic interaction of countries in climate negotiations becomes paramount. We thus established for this paper an open economy environmental...

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Oil price shocks and stock return volatility : new evidence based on volatility impulse response analysis

Eraslan, Sercan; Ali, Faek Menla - 2018

We use volatility impulse response analysis estimated from the bivariate GARCH-BEKK model to quantify the size and the persistence of different types of oil price shocks on stock return volatility and the covariance between oil price changes and stock returns for a wide range of net...

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Global oil prices and the macroeconomy : the role of tradeable manufacturing versus nontradeable services

Khalil, Makram - 2020

This paper studies the ability of manufacturing-specific shocks to explain global oil prices. In an estimated three-region DSGE model (UnitedStates, OPEC, rest-of-world) in corporating two sectors (manufacturing and services) in the oil-importing economies and featuring cross-border...

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Testing for Granger causality in large mixed-frequency VARs

Götz, Thomas B.; Hecq, Alain W. J.; Smeekes, Stephan - 2015

We analyze Granger causality testing in a mixed-frequency VAR, where the difference in sampling frequencies of the … improve the finite sample properties of these tests. We also consider a Bayesian VAR that we carefully extend to the presence …. (2015a) as well as to the unrestricted VAR using Monte Carlo simulations. The techniques are illustrated in an empirical …

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Connectedness between G10 currencies : searching for the causal structure

Bettendorf, Timo; Heinlein, Reinhold - 2019

Diebold and Yılmaz (2014), which is based on the forecast error variance decomposition of a VAR model. However, their …

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On the time-varying causal relationships that drive bitcoin returns

Stengos, Thanasēs; Panagiōtidēs, Theodōros; … - 2025

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Autoregressions in small samples, priors about observables and initial conditions

Jarociński, Marek; Marcet, Albert - 2011

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