Bredin, Donal; Muckley, Cal(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2009)
The European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is the key policy instrument of the European Commission's Climate Change Program aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions to eight percent below 1990 levels by 2012. A ...
We use historical industrial emissions data to assess the level of abatement and overallocation
that took place across European countries during the pilot phase (2005-2007)
of the European Union Emission Trading Scheme. ...
This paper is a first attempt to empirically measure transaction costs – a composite of administrative
costs and trading costs – of firms in the European Union's CO2 Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS)
during its trial ...
The democratic nature of the EU, or the lack of it, has never been so important
(Schmitter 2000; Erne et. al. 1995). It is generally acknowledged that the existing
governance structures and mechanism of the EU “are not ...
Robotic ecologies are networks of heterogeneous robotic devices pervasively
embedded in everyday environments, where they cooperate to perform complex
tasks. While their potential makes them increasingly popular, one ...
This policy brief identifies the major elements that determine the trade and competitiveness effects of the introduction
of an emission-trading regime. These effects depend most of all on the breadth of the emissions ...
Web search is the dominant form of information access and everyday millions of searches are handled by mainstream search engines, but users still struggle to find what they are looking for, and there is much
room for ...
Collaborative filtering (CF) techniques have proved to be a powerful and popular component of modern recommender systems.
Common approaches such as user-based and item-based methods generate predictions from the past ...
Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is a societal imperative in many countries due to their aged demographic profile. Ambient Intelligence (AmI) offers a viable and intuitive framework by which such systems may realised in ...