Low Interest Rates: An Opportunity for Renewables
Pierre Monnin | 8 July 2015
Monetary,
Blog | Tags:
Energy,
Interest Rates Putting the economy on an environmentally sustainable path requires a serious shift into green technologies. Such a shift includes substantial investments in technologies that are based on renewable energy to produce electricity – referred to hereinafter as “green energy technologies”. Interest rates directly and significantly
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The Impact of Interest Rates on Electricity Production Costs
Pierre Monnin | 25 June 2015
Monetary,
Discussion Notes | Tags:
Energy,
Interest Rates Putting the economy on an environmentally sustainable path requires substantial investments in green energy technologies. Long-term interest rates play a crucial role for energy investments. Against this background, we study the impact of interest rates on the costs of producing electricity with different technologies, using
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Services Trade and Employment
Johannes Schwarzer | 7 June 2015
Trade,
Discussion Notes | Tags:
Employment,
Global Value Chains,
Services Trade Driven by spectacular technological advances and the emergence and intensification of global value chains, trade in services has been the most dynamic part of global trade over recent years. All regions of the world have witnessed growth in services trade, albeit at different paces. Europe
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Monetary Policy and Sustainability. The Case of Bangladesh
Alexander Barkawi and
Pierre Monnin | 31 May 2015
Monetary,
Discussion Notes | Tags:
Employment,
Energy,
Financial Inclusion Central banks have wide ranging effects on the economy and society as a whole. Their decisions on monetary policy and sustainability are closely intertwined. Nonetheless, the links between the mandates, objectives and instruments of central banks and a broad sustainability agenda are rarely reflected in
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Where Will All The Jobs Come From?
Tom Berliner | 24 April 2015
Trade,
Blog | Tags:
Employment,
Global Value Chains,
Services Trade In the last couple of years, a spate of magazines, articles and think-pieces have predicted a new age of automation (and robots) – one that means an increasingly stark picture for labour worldwide (see the BBC and The Economist). Even Barack Obama has been seen
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