Tag: Economics and Econometrics
Carbon trading decentralization hindered energy eco-efficiency
Study of 257 Chinese cities shows carbon emissions trading policy reduces energy efficiency through technological and structural changes, though spillover effects partially offset losses.
Automation lowers rents and widens inequality less within groups
Automation targets high-wage jobs, dissipates worker rents, and offsets productivity gains. Analysis of U.S. data shows automation explains half of wage inequality growth since 1980.
China’s electricity and carbon prices show partial coupling
Study quantifies China’s carbon-to-electricity price transmission at 76.5%, identifies barriers to market coupling, and proposes institutional reforms for achieving clean energy targets.
Inflation can increase job switching and vacancies
Model explaining how nominal wage stickiness causes workers to switch jobs during inflation, creating paradox of high vacancies with lower real wages.
Wartime disrupted Indonesian staple food prices and urban nutrition
Analysis of 8,600+ staple food prices across Indonesia (1945-49) shows severe wartime inflation and subsistence-level nutrition for urban laborers, reshaping understanding of conflict dynamics.
Strikes and lockouts reduced applications to Danish public service programs
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Study analyzes how labor strikes and lockouts in Denmark’s public sector deter applications to nursing and teacher education programs using synthetic control methods.
AI is described as expanding finance’s production frontier
Explore how AI expands financial production possibilities through data activation, efficiency gains, service restructuring, and risk optimization while navigating algorithmic bias and regulatory.
E-commerce is linked to lower urban electricity intensity
E-commerce reduces electricity intensity in Chinese cities through population and economic agglomeration plus innovation. Government coordination and market efficiency strengthen effects.
Dynamic price monitoring improved affordability forecasting in Lusaka
Study on Dynamic Price Monitoring forecasting household affordability of essential commodities in Lusaka, Zambia, using household survey and price data analysis.
RGGI linked to lower wages for unskilled energy-sector workers
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RGGI carbon emissions trading program caused significant wage declines for unskilled workers in energy-intensive sectors, with 7% reduction four years post-implementation, while skilled workers.
