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From pathways to policy: an overview of green collar jobs advocacy
The term "Green Collar Job" for many of those who use it, represents more than a label describing environmentally friendly occupations. In particular, the expression tends to evoke a hopeful vision of economic development that combines inclusive prosperity and environmental stewardship in complementary ways. Yet even supporters who admire the term's ability to inspire acknowledge its ambiquity and unwieldiness from a technical perspective. Others have even wondered whether the phrase is anything more than a "trendy term for politicians and others to bandy about."
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Pitfalls in estimating asymmetric effects of energy price shocks
A common view in the literature is that the effect of energy price shocks on macroeconomic aggregates is asymmetric in energy price increases and decreases. We show that widely used asymmetric vector autoregressive models of the transmission of energy price shocks are misspecified, resulting in inconsistent parameter estimates, and that the implied impulse responses have been routinely computed incorrectly. As a result, the quantitative importance of unanticipated energy price increases for the U.S. economy has been exaggerated. In response to this problem, we develop alternative regression ...
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Bank exposure to ethanol
Is ethanol expansion putting investing banks at risk?
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Oil exploration booms -- Is Houston next?
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Fickle like the wind
Wind farming is booming again in the district, but the industry remains dependent on federal subsidy
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Unconventional natural gas drives New Mexico rig count
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Noteworthy: energy: new Texas LNG terminals put on hold
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Science panel may study Virginia uranium plan
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