In this paper, we analyze the effects of oil revenue shocks on different sectors of the Iranian economy. We use quarterly data of the Iranian economy from 1988:2 to 2011:1 to analyze a time-varying parameter VAR model with the Bayesian method. The results show that in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the positive effects of oil revenue were mostly emerged in the industrial and oil sectors, havin...

Understanding of the influencing factors of industrial sector carbon dioxide emissions is essential to reduce natural and anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. In this paper, we applied the Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI) decomposition method based on the extended Kaya identity to analyze the changes in industrial carbon dioxide emissions resulting from 39 industrial sectors in Inner Mo...

Heavy use of spreadsheets by organisations bears many potential risks such as errors, ambiguity, data loss, duplication, and fraud. In this paper these risks are briefly outlined along with their available mitigation methods such as: documentation, centralisation, auditing, and user training. However, because of the large quantities of spreadsheets used in organisations, applying these methods ...

Abstract Adaptation to climate change poses two recognized significant types of risks the private sector; (1) physical and (2) transitional risks. As markets respond climate-related policies shifting demands from customers investors, opportunities as well are presented. A very recent important policy development is European Green Deal suggesting EU reduce its emissions 40 55% by 2030, aiming en...

The goal of any load-management program is to maintain, as nearly as possible, a constant level of load, thereby allowing the system load factor to approach 100%. The important bene®ts of load management are reduction in maximum demand, reduction in power loss, better equipment utilisation and saving through reduced maximum demand charges. Load shifting, one of the simplest methods of load mana...