The increasing scarcity of environmental resources and competition among forest, water, food and energy coupled with the ever-growing population and climate change pose a serious threat to natural…

The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 stresses the importance for economies around the world to double their efforts in improving energy efficiency. Energy efficiency improvements have been found…

To cope with the stricter environmental regulation, manufacturing firms need to carry out pollution reduction activities and change their optimal production decisions, which may affect their labor…

This paper considers estimation of semi-nonparametric GARCH filtered copula models in which the individual time series are modeled by semi-nonparametric GARCH and the joint distributions of the…

The emissions reductions from the adoption of a new transportation technology depend on the emissions from the new technology relative to those from the displaced technology. We evaluate the emissions…

We analyzed the impact that the advent of the salmon aquaculture industry had on income distribution in coastal communities. Specifically, we evaluated whether salmon farms generated significant…

Abstract Do people discriminate between co-ethnics and others in cooperative interactions? In an experiment in China, we find that participants in trust games send around 15% more to partners they…

Abstract This paper evaluates the implementation of salinity gradient power (SGP) based on reverse electrodialysis (RED) in the Caribbean region of Colombia, specifically at the Magdalena River mouth…

Abstract After countries began to deregulate electricity markets there have been indications that there might be cycles in generation capacity. This has been shown both in simulation models…