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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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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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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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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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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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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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