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A Public/Private Partnership for the Implementation of a Job Guarantee Program
This chapter contains a preliminary study about the possibility of creation of a public-private partnership between the municipal government and... -
Sustainable Consumption and Production, Volume I Challenges and Development
Economic growth and increasing population impose long-term risks to the environment and society. Approaches to address the impact of consumption and...
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Digital finance and renewable energy consumption: evidence from China
While digital finance and renewable energy consumption (REC) are two timely issues, it remains unclear whether the former affects the latter,...
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Sooner or later? The impact of child education on household consumption
We study the impact of one more year of child’s education on household (non-durable) consumption. We exploit an exogenous shock generated by a...
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Debt and Private Investment: Does the EU Suffer from a Debt Overhang?
This paper exploits a panel of 28 European Union (EU) countries between 1995 and 2016 to analyze whether higher debt resulted in lower private...
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Private Sector Takes the Control
All these developments beg the obvious question: why did regulators effectively leave the resolution of such a significant monetary crisis in the... -
The good, the bad and the worse: current, past and future consumption externalities and equilibrium efficiency
We consider an Ak model in which instantaneous utility of the representative agent depends not only on current consumption, but also on a...
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Testing the effect of electricity consumption on CO2 levels in Kuwait: linear vs. non-linear analysis
In this study we test if electricity consumption has asymmetric effects on carbon dioxide emissions in Kuwait, over the period 1971–2018. The study...
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The effect of monetary policy on household consumption expenditures in Portugal: A decomposition of the transmission channel
We follow Slacalek et al. (
2020 ) monetary transmission decomposition approach to investigate the effects of monetary policy shocks on household... -
Policies to Attract Private Investment and Finance in Green Energy Projects
Various roadmaps and strategies have been proposed to promote environmental protection in the last few decades; however, this process has not been... -
Policies to Attract Private Investment and Finance in Green Energy Projects
Various roadmaps and strategies have been proposed to promote environmental protection in the last few decades; however, this process has not been... -
Technology Innovation and Private Equity
Development and innovation of science and technology are a source of inexhaustible power for a country and nation to flourish. -
Food, biofuels or cosmetics? Land-use, deforestation and CO2 emissions embodied in the palm oil consumption of four European countries: a biophysical accounting approach
Around 75% of tropical deforestation in the XXI century has been driven by the expansion of agriculture and forest plantations. Since 1990s, palm oil...
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The long-term implications of destruction during the Second World War on private wealth in Germany
By the end of the Second World War, an estimated 20% of the West German housing stock had been destroyed. Building on a theoretical life-cycle model,...
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Public–Private Partnerships to Face the Challenges of Covid-19 in Italy
During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, when Italy, like many other countries across the world, were in trouble to find enough masks and... -
An Application of the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) to Value the Land Consumption and Ecosystem Services
Land systems combine land use and land cover, considering that their changes have important consequences for the local environment and human...
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Multi-dimensional Panels in Health Economics with an Application on Antibiotic Consumption
Variation in healthcare use and health outcomes is a major concern for health policy. The availability of multi-dimensional administrative panel data... -
Impact of Electric Vehicle Development on Energy Consumption: Risks and Opportunities for the Russian Economy
Abstract—The article discusses various aspects of the impact made by the development of the electric vehicle market on the Russian economy. A model...
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How the Federal Government Supports Private Economic Engagement in Africa
Africa is a growing future market that offers many opportunities for German companies. In this chapter, the former State Secretary of the Federal...