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The adoption of wind energy has grown significantly in recent years. New, cost-effective technologies have been developed, led by customer awareness of green technologies and a legal framework proposed at the European Union level. The stochastic nature of wind speed is transferred to wind...
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In this paper we study international linkages when forecasting unemployment rates in a sample of 24 OECD economies. We propose a Global Unemployment Factor (GUF) and test its predictive ability considering in-sample and out-of-sample exercises. Our main results indicate that the predictive...
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Efforts to reduce emissions to counter climate change are expected to have both costs andbenefits, and these effects are likely to be unevenly distributed across the population. Weexamined the potential distributional impacts on employment in New Zealand from usingdifferent mitigation options...
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This study documents simple trading strategies that predict stock returns using the sentiment information of labor market related news articles. I identify the average sentiment scores of labor market related news articles of each firm daily and use them to predict stock returns. Unlike the...
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, jobs and technology spending. The preliminary forecast predicts the US economy will gain nearly 3 trillion Dollars in GDP …
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We use newly-available Indian panel data to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. We show that the forecasts significantly affect farmer investment decisions and that these responses account for a substantial fraction of the inter-annual...
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in fulfilling food and nutritional security. Globally, biofortification is considered a promising technology to tackle … development goals. Prediction of such technology adoption is much more pertinent for researchers, extension personnel, and … that were considered for technology adoption (i.e., biofortified wheat variety for seed production) uptake are (1) Relative …
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Two new predictive screening tools that are based on analyzing records of over one-million people who experienced homelessness have been placed in the public domain by the Economic Roundtable. The two groups targeted by these tools are low-wage workers who have just lost their jobs and youth...
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