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Climate Policy Uncertainty and Corporate Investment: The Real-Estate Concentration Channel

Risks
Climate policy uncertainty (CPU) suppresses corporate investment broadly, but its effect is not uniform across firms. Using a sample of 60,185 firm-year observations for nonfinancial U.S.
H. Semih Yildirim
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Extension Economists: Valued in Mission, Penalized in Practice

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As the public engagement arm of the land‐grant mission, we argue that Extension faculty in US agricultural economics departments face an identity crossroads as they struggle for institutional support. Specifically, we argue that Extension economists function as boundary‐spanning professionals within academic structures that often devalue ...
Trey Malone, Craig W. Carpenter, Courtney Bir, Andrew J. Van Leuven, Rebecca Wasserman‐Olin, Wendong Zhang   +5 more
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Heavy Work Investment [PDF]

, 2014
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Economical and environmental assessments of compressed natural gas for diesel vehicle in Thailand [PDF]

Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology (SJST), 2008
The economic assessments for the use of compressed natural gas as fuel for several types of diesel vehicles, rarely pick up, non-fixed route truck and private truck, were studied. It is noted that two main technologies of diesel natural gas vehicle (NGV),
Prateep Chouykerd, Navadol Laosiripojana, Somchai Chanchaona, Chumnong Sorapipatana, Withaya Yongchareon   +4 more
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Assessing Photovoltaic Recycling Capacities and Policy Gaps in the European Union

Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.
This study maps photovoltaic recycling capacity in the EU and key global regions, highlighting gaps between growing waste volumes and available infrastructure. It combines survey insights and policy analysis to identify recycling bottlenecks and offers recommendations to boost circularity in the solar sector.
Nieves Espinosa, Silvia Bobba, Cynthia E. L. Latunussa, Enrica Leccisi   +3 more
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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor, Bright Owusu Asante, David Boansi, Victor Owusu   +3 more
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Model-Based Decision Analysis of Production Strategy for Heavy-Oil Field Development and Management Under Uncertainty: Waterflooding, Polymer Flooding, and Intelligent Wells

Energies
The decision-making procedure to develop and manage a production strategy is challenging because it requires a high investment and is performed under uncertainty.
Andrés Peralta, Vinicius Botechia, Antonio Santos, Denis Schiozer, Arne Skauge, Tormod Skauge   +5 more
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Animal‐Based Brands Taking the Plant‐Based Opportunity: A Tasting Experiment Exploring Consumer Acceptance of Plant‐Based Brand Extensions

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how consumer taste and brand equity perceptions shape the acceptance of plant‐based milk products. Using a blind/informed tasting experiment, we evaluated consumers' willingness to buy (WTB) and taste perception of a plant‐based milk alternative produced by a traditional dairy brand, compared with competing plant‐based ...
Federico Parmiggiani, Mirta Casati, Elena Castellari, Fosca Vezzulli, Veronica Vitali, Milena Lambri, Claudio Soregaroli   +6 more
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Heavy work investment: Its motivational make-up and outcomes

, 2014
Purpose – The present study aims to investigate the motivational correlates of two types of heavy work investment: workaholism and work engagement. Building on Higgins’s regulatory focus theory, the paper examines which work goals workaholic and engaged ...
van Beek, I., Schaufeli, W.B., Brenninkmeijer, V., Taris, T.W.   +3 more
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What drives firms' investment in climate change?

, 2023
High energy prices in Europe and uncertainty caused by the Ukraine war are testing EU firms’ ability to invest in climate change measures. Europe urgently needs to embrace the transition to green energy, and firms will be called upon to play a pivotal
EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK
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