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Climate change projects and youth engagement: empowerment and contested knowledge. [Preprint] (2024)
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STAVRIANAKIS, K., NIELSEN, J.A.E. and MORRISON, Z. 2024. Climate change projects and youth engagement: empowerment and contested knowledge. [Preprint]. Hosted on Earth ArXiv [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.31223/X5R40M

This study investigated youths' empowerment through EU-funded climate change projects (CCPs), and the role that social research and public engagement have in that process. The importance of considering youth empowerment in a time of climate change is... Read More about Climate change projects and youth engagement: empowerment and contested knowledge. [Preprint].

Optimum hybrid configurations for rural and remote power generation in different geopolitical zones of Nigeria. (2023)
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BABAJIDE, N., ACHEAMPONG, T. and MENYEH, B. 2023. Optimum hybrid configurations for rural and remote power generation in different geopolitical zones of Nigeria. [Prepint]. Hosted on SSRN [online]. Available from: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4992116

This study uses Hybrid Optimization Model for Electric Renewables (HOMER) software to conduct techno-economic analysis and identify optimum hybrid system for power generation in rural (remote) areas across six geopolitical zones of Nigeria, ranging f... Read More about Optimum hybrid configurations for rural and remote power generation in different geopolitical zones of Nigeria..

A holistic power systems asset engineering and decision management framework for railway asset managers. (2022)
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BRUINERS, J., NJUGUNA, J. and AGARWAL, A. 2022. A holistic power systems asset engineering and decision management framework for railway asset managers. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1777336

Defining, designing and implementing an asset management system capable of effectively managing assets throughout their life in terms of engineering, financial, digital and stakeholder needs is challenging. Furthermore, governance frameworks of the p... Read More about A holistic power systems asset engineering and decision management framework for railway asset managers..

Using public funding to attract private investment in renewable energy in Indonesia. (2022)
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HENDRIWARDANI, M., GEDDES, A., SUMARNO, T.B. and HOHENBERGER, L. 2022. Using public funding to attract private investment in renewable energy in Indonesia. Achieving a fossil-free recovery in Indonesia, Brief 3. Winnipeg: International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) [online]. Available from: https://www.iisd.org/publications/brief/using-public-funding-attract-private-investment-renewable-energy-indonesia

Indonesia faces a very important year ahead in terms of economic recovery and energy transition. In economic terms, despite regaining a positive GDP growth in 2021, Indonesia's budget deficit is still very high compared to pre-COVID-19. In terms of t... Read More about Using public funding to attract private investment in renewable energy in Indonesia..

Financing green recovery from fossil fuel taxation and subsidy reform. (2021)
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SUMARNO, T.B. and SANCHEZ, L. 2021. Financing green recovery from fossil fuel taxation and subsidy reform. Achieving a fossil-free recovery in Indonesia, Brief 2. Winnipeg: International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) [online]. Available from: https://www.iisd.org/publications/fossil-fuel-taxation-subsidy-reform-indonesia

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on Indonesia's fiscal position. Government debt, normally capped at 3% of GDP, is likely to approach 5% in 2022 due to suppressed revenues, high health costs and stimulus spending (Suroyo & Diela, 20... Read More about Financing green recovery from fossil fuel taxation and subsidy reform..

How Indonesia can achieve both a COVID-19 recovery and its climate targets. (2021)
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SUMARNO, T.B. and SANCHEZ, L. 2021. How Indonesia can achieve both a COVID-19 recovery and its climate targets. Achieving a fossil-free recovery in Indonesia, Brief 1. Winnipeg: International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) [online]. Available from: https://www.iisd.org/publications/indonesia-achieve-covid-19-recovery-and-climate-targets

In May 2021, the International Energy Agency (IEA) (2021) released its flagship report on how to reach net-zero by 2050, concluding that fossil fuel consumption should have peaked by 2020 and start declining as of 2030. It also shows that meeting the... Read More about How Indonesia can achieve both a COVID-19 recovery and its climate targets..

Taxing coal to hit the goals: a simple way for Indonesia to reduce carbon emissions. (2021)
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SUMARNO, T.B. and LAAN, T. 2021. Taxing coal to hit the goals: a simple way for Indonesia to reduce carbon emissions. Winnipeg: International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) [online]. Available from: https://www.iisd.org/publications/taxing-coal-indonesia-reduce-carbon-emissions

The Government of Indonesia has pledged to reduce absolute carbon emissions by between 29% and 41% by 2030 compared to "business as usual" (Republic of Indonesia, 2021). To help achieve this, the government is considering options for carbon pricing,... Read More about Taxing coal to hit the goals: a simple way for Indonesia to reduce carbon emissions..

A fitting return to fitting returns: cryptocurrency distributions revisited. [Working paper] (2021)
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SHANAEV, S. and GHIMIRE, B. 2021. A fitting return to fitting returns: cryptocurrency distributions revisited. [Working paper]. SSRN [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3847351

This study fits 22 theoretical distribution functions, four of them originally derived, onto 772 cryptocurrency daily returns with goodness-of-fit evaluated using Cramer-von Mises, Anderson-Darling, Kuiper, Kolmogorov-Smirnov, and Chi-squared tests,... Read More about A fitting return to fitting returns: cryptocurrency distributions revisited. [Working paper].

A generalised seasonality test and applications for stock market seasonality. [Working paper] (2020)
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SHANAEV, S. and GHIMIRE, B. 2020. A generalised seasonality test and applications for stock market seasonality. [Working paper]. SSRN [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3722154

This study develops a novel generalised seasonality test that utilises sequential dummy variable regressions for seasonality periodicity equal to prime numbers. It allows both to test for existence of any seasonal patterns against the broad null hypo... Read More about A generalised seasonality test and applications for stock market seasonality. [Working paper].

To float or to sink? Revisiting the causal effects of exchange rate regimes. [Working paper] (2020)
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SHURAEVA, A., SHANAEV, S. and GHIMIRE, B. 2020. To float or to sink? Revisiting the causal effects of exchange rate regimes. [Working paper]. SSRN [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3633069

This study proposes a novel instrumental variable construction procedure based on international trade concentration that has a sufficiently strong first stage for exchange rate policy choice globally and applies it to revisit the causal effects of ex... Read More about To float or to sink? Revisiting the causal effects of exchange rate regimes. [Working paper].

The financial pandemic: COVID-19 and policy interventions on rational and irrational markets. [Working paper] (2020)
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SHANAEV, S., SHURAEVA, A. and GHIMIRE, B. 2020. The financial pandemic: COVID-19 and policy interventions on rational and irrational markets. [Working paper]. SSRN [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3589557

Financial markets are useful indicators of public beliefs and dispersed knowledge on future outcomes and policy efficiency, especially in periods of uncertainty. 51 national stock markets successfully absorb publicly available information regarding C... Read More about The financial pandemic: COVID-19 and policy interventions on rational and irrational markets. [Working paper].

The marginal cost of mining, Metcalfe's law and cryptocurrency value formation: causal inferences from the instrumental variable approach. [Working paper] (2019)
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SHANAEV, S., SHARMA, S., SHURAEVA, A. and GHIMIRE, B. 2019. The marginal cost of mining, Metcalfe's law and cryptocurrency value formation: causal inferences from the instrumental variable approach. [Working paper]. SSRN [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3432431

This paper is the first to rigorously test commonly cited simplistic theories of cryptocurrency pricing, namely, cost-based model and Metcalfe's law, using causal inferences from the instrumental variables approach on block-level data for six proof-o... Read More about The marginal cost of mining, Metcalfe's law and cryptocurrency value formation: causal inferences from the instrumental variable approach. [Working paper].

Taming the blockchain beast? Regulatory implications for the cryptocurrency market. [Working paper] (2019)
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SHANAEV, S., SHARMA, S., SHURAEVA, A. and GHIMIRE, B. 2019. Taming the blockchain beast? Regulatory implications for the cryptocurrency market. [Working paper]. SSRN [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3397939

This paper uses a unique dataset of 120 regulatory events from five classes to test the relevance of the regulatory framework for cryptocurrency value. Time-series market-wide estimates and panel estimates for 300 individual coins and tokens show sta... Read More about Taming the blockchain beast? Regulatory implications for the cryptocurrency market. [Working paper].

Poverty as a wicked problem. (2016)
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SPICKER, P. 2016. Poverty as a wicked problem. CROP poverty brief, no. 35. Bergen, Norway: CROP Secretariat [online]. Available from: http://www.crop.org/viewfile.aspx?id=1062

This brief argues for a pragmatic approach to poverty, rather than an analytical one: 1. Poverty is a wicked issue - complex, multidimensional, unclear and changeable. There is not one problem to be addressed. If we are not dealing with a set, specif... Read More about Poverty as a wicked problem..

The fiscal framework and the delivery of welfare benefits. (2016)
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SPICKER, P. 2016. The fiscal framework and the delivery of welfare benefits. Written submission presented at the 10th Meeting of the Devolution (Further Powers) Committee (Scottish Parliament, session 4), 3 March 2016, Edinburgh, UK. Edinburgh: Scottish Parliament [online], pages 19-23. Available from: http://www.parliament.scot/Papers_20160303_updated_3.3.16.pdf

The author author was approached by the Clerks of the committee to comment on the Scotland Bill and Fiscal Framework, since the publication of the Committee's Interim Report published in May 2015. This is his written submission.

What can the Scottish Parliament do with new social security powers? (2016)
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SPICKER, P. 2016. What can the Scottish Parliament do with new social security powers? Glasgow: Comon Weal [online]. Available from: http://allofusfirst.org/tasks/render/file/?fileID=5F353C60-ECE3-72D9-CAD3D044ACBB03D0

Professor Paul Spicker analyses the planned devolution of social security powers to the Scottish Parliament in the Scotland Bill and argues: The reforms have been represented as giving Scotland 'one of the most powerful devolved parliaments in the wo... Read More about What can the Scottish Parliament do with new social security powers?.

Socially responsible investment and market performance: the case of energy and resource firms. [Working paper] (2016)
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BRZESZCZYŃSKI, J., GHIMIRE, B., JAMASB, T. and MCINTOSH, G. 2016. Socially responsible investment and market performance: the case of energy and resource firms. [Working paper]. Energy Policy Research Group working papers, EPRG 1605; Cambridge working papers in economics, CWPE 1609. Hosted on Judge Business School website [online]. Available from: https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/eprg-wp1605.pdf

Energy and resource companies have a crucial role in achieving future sustainable economies. We investigate the performance of international Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) energy and resource companies on the stock market over a 10-year period... Read More about Socially responsible investment and market performance: the case of energy and resource firms. [Working paper].

Oil price shocks and Nigeria's economic activity: evidence from ARDL co-integration and VECM analysis. (2015)
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BABAJIDE, N.A. and SOILE, I.O. 2015. Oil price shocks and Nigeria's economic activity: evidence from ARDL co-integration and VECM analysis. Hosted on SSRN [online], article number 2624004. Available from: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2624004

This study examines the impact of oil price shocks and their transmission channels to selected macroeconomic variables which serve as proxies for economic activities in Nigeria using quarterly data from 1980Q1 to 2011Q4. Empirical analysis was carrie... Read More about Oil price shocks and Nigeria's economic activity: evidence from ARDL co-integration and VECM analysis..

The use of photo elicitation to explore the role of the main street in Kirkwall in sustaining cultural identity, community, and a sense of place. (2015)
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BAXTER, G., COOPER, K., GRAY, D., REID, P.H, VERGUNST, J. and WILLIAMS, D. 2015. The use of photo elicitation to explore the role of the main street in Kirkwall in sustaining cultural identity, community, and a sense of place. Aberdeen Business School working paper series, 8(1).

This paper explores the value of photo elicitation as a method for investigating the role played by small town main streets in Scottish island communities in sustaining cultural identity, community, and a sense of place. In particular, it critically... Read More about The use of photo elicitation to explore the role of the main street in Kirkwall in sustaining cultural identity, community, and a sense of place..

Listening to alternative perspectives on rural crime and criminality: a report on the pilot study. (2013)
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SMITH, R. and LAING, A. 2013. Listening to alternative perspectives on rural crime and criminality: a report on the pilot study. SIPR Research Summary Number 15. Dundee: Scottish Institute for Policing Research, School of Social Sciences, University of Dundee.

This summary reports on the pilot phase of an ongoing study, funded by SIPR, into the changing nature of rural crime and what constitutes rural criminality. We set out to listen to alternative perspectives on rural crime and criminality and to speak... Read More about Listening to alternative perspectives on rural crime and criminality: a report on the pilot study..