The Unassuming Economist

From a paper by Jangho Yang and Christian Schoder:

“This study examines the impact of temperature uncertainty on firm fixed capital growth using a unique dataset that merges extensive firm-level financial data with detailed gridlevel weather data. The analysis reveals a strong negative relationship between temperature uncertainty and fixed capital growth. Furthermore, the impact varies significantly across industries with differing levels of investment irreversibility and among countries with varying income levels. Firms in industries characterized by high investment irreversibility and those operating in higher-income countries experience more pronounced declines in fixed asset growth due to temperature uncertainty.”

From a paper by Peterson K. Ozili:

“Contractionary monetary and fiscal policy jointly reduce CO₂ emissions in the regions of the Americas and Africa. Contractionary monetary and fiscal policy combined with higher renewable energy consumption jointly reduce CO₂ emissions in the regions of the Americas, Asia and Europe. Also, contractionary monetary and fiscal policy combined with higher institutional quality jointly reduce CO₂ emissions in African countries. Higher renewable energy consumption reduces CO₂ emissions in Africa, Asia, Europe and Americas regions while strong institutional quality consistently reduce CO₂ emissions in Europe and the Americas.”

From a paper by Yvonne Rueckert:

“The chapter examines the promotion of the ILO’s decent work agenda at global and national level. The ILO, which acts as a knowledge creator and standard setter, cooperates with inter-governmental organizations including the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in order to promote social dialogue. The chapter highlights some of the joint initiatives and examines organizational characteristics which promote and hinder the dialogue including, for example, organizational missions, values, and approaches to economics. At the national level the implementation of the social dialogue is strongly influenced by institutions such as employment and trade union laws and the organizational strength of social partners. In this context the examples of the UK and Spain highlight some of the differences between liberal market economies and Southern European welfare regime and consider the importance of social dialogue during times of crisis, such as the Covid-19 pandemic.”

From The Tribune:

“New Delhi [India], January 19 (ANI): Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Sunday shared insights on his participation at World Economic Forum (WEF) 2025.

The Union Minister highlighted that there will be a detailed discussion on issues ranging from inclusive growth, invetments in social phisical and digital infrastructure to democratising technology.

He pointed out the global interest in India’s approach to economic policy, digital transformation, and the Digital India programme.

He stated, “The Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji has put huge focus on inclusive development, and a growth which brings a big transformative change in the lives of the people at the bottom of the pyramid. People who have been left out of development over many decades in the past, whether it is bank accounts, whether it is providing toilets, gas connections, whether it is having tap water connections, getting the basic infrastructure in the or villages done. Infrastructure in the urban areas done. This is something which the world wants to understand.”

“In the World Economic Forum at Davos, there is a lot of interest in understanding our thought process, PM’s economic policy about digital transformation and also the way technology has been democratised by our PM’s Digital India program… There will be detailed discussion in the World Economic Forum about inclusive growth, investment in social, physical and digital infrastructure and democratizing technology,” he added.”

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From a paper by Florin Cornel Dumiter, Ștefania Amalia Nicoară, Samuel Nicoară, Cristian Bențe and Luminița Păiușan:

“The oil price influences and tendencies have gained, lately major developments both at the European level and on the international level. Moreover, several interconnections between the energy sector and oil price influences have become the panacea of several important research and studies. In this article, we provide a qualitative and quantitative approach to the interconnections manifested between oil price movements and the developments of the energy sector. The study is focused on Central and Eastern European Countries which have similarities and differences both at the energy sector level and economy level. The econometric techniques used in this study reveal the importance of the causality relationship between oil price movements and the energy sector taking into account the macroeconomic context. The conclusions of this study highlight some important fine-tuning aspects that must be recalibrated in Central and Eastern European Countries to increase the economic outcomes, strengthen the energy sector, and respond properly to the oil price movement trends.”