In marine habitats, increasing ocean temperatures due to global climate change may distinctly reduce nutrient and consequently food availability for seabirds. Food availability is a known driver of body mass and reproductive investment in birds, but these traits may also depend on individual effects. Penguins show extreme intra-annual body mass variation and rely on accumulated body reserves fo...

This article explores efficient climate policies in terms of investment streams into fossil and renewable energy technologies. The investment decisions maximise social welfare while observing a probabilistic guardrail for global mean temperature rise under uncertain technology and climate parameters. Such a guardrail constitutes a chance constraint, and the resulting optimisation problem is an ...

Article history: Received 12 October 2012 Received in revised form 24 April 2013 Accepted 20 August 2013 Available online xxxx Industrial competitiveness (IC) is a country's ability to produce and export manufactured goods competitively. Howdoes foreign direct investment (FDI) affect IC in China? The significance of the topic, besides the intrinsic importance of IC, is heightened by outstanding...

t Wilkie's stochastic investment model and its variants have been increasingly applied by actuaries around the world to actuarial modeling and simulation. This paper performs time series outlier analysis on retail price inflation, which is the driving force of Wilkie's composite model. The data come from four developed countries: the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and Australia. The...

The Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe is a political declaration and framework agreement adopted in June 1999 to encourage and strengthen cooperation among the countries of South East Europe (SEE) and to facilitate, coordinate and streamline efforts to ensure stability and economic growth in the region. (see Compact ") is a key component of the Stability Pact under Working Table II on Eco...

Investments aimed at improving agricultural adaptation to climate change inevitably favor some crops and regions over others. An analysis of climate risks for crops in 12 food-insecure regions was conducted to identify adaptation priorities, based on statistical crop models and climate projections for 2030 from 20 general circulation models. Results indicate South Asia and Southern Africa as tw...

This article examines the effect of Intellectual Capital (IC) on performances selected Thai listed companies in Agro and Food industry from 2017 to 2019. The sample consisted 45 with 135 observations spanning three years. Modified Value-Added Coefficient (MVAIC) model was used measuring IC, including capital employed, human capital, structural relational capital. Performance measured using two ...

Reaching the Sustainable Development Goals requires a fundamental socio-economic transformation accompanied by substantial investment in low-carbon infrastructure. Such a sustainability transition represents a non-marginal change, driven by behavioral factors and systemic interactions. However, typical economic models used to assess a sustainability transition focus on marginal changes around a...

The present study investigates whether intellectual capital (IC) is related to audit fees and financial statement restatements in companies listed on the Iraq Stock Exchange (ISE). a pioneer investigation of this topic emerging markets. Using sample all ISE from 2014 2020, research hypotheses are tested with multiple regression based panel data fixed-effects model. results demonstrate that posi...

Equity and efficiency should be considered when allocating resources for climate change adaptation. More than a decade after the Least Developed Countries Fund approved adaptation funds for 18 countries in 2003, it is possible to take the stock of investment data and to test empirically whether equity and efficiency have been factored into adaptation investment decision-making. To evaluate equi...