Essays about: "Oil Crisis"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 79 essays containing the words Oil Crisis.

1. 1. Beyond the Crisis: A Safe Haven Analysis : Empirical Insights into the Divergence of Gold and Bonds for Portfolio Hedging

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Företagsekonomi

   Author : Anthony Baugi; Eugene Zhang; [2024]
   Keywords : Gold; Bonds; Safe Haven; Hedging; US Treasury; Volatility; Covid; Portfolio Theory; Asset Dynamics; Fiscal Policy; Monetary Policy; Financial Crisis; Asset Management; Risk Management; Portfolio Risk;

   Abstract : Purpose: This thesis investigates the relationship concerning traditional safe haven assets, gold and US 10-year treasury bonds during periods of market instability, specifically during the economic concerns raised by the COVID-19 pandemic. It assesses the hedging and safe haven properties of these assets and their dynamic nature throughout two periods of unconventional monetary and fiscal policy measures by the Federal Reserve & US Congress respectively. READ MORE

3. 2. The suffocating enjoyment of the Other: An ideology critique of enjoyment in the mediatisation of the climate crisis

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

   Author : Gabriel Bintley; [2024]
   Keywords : Enjoyment; Jouissance; the Other; Climate Crisis; Lacan; Žižek; Environmental Politics; Ideology Critique; Njutning; Jouissance; Den Andre; Klimatkrisen; Lacan; Žižek; Miljöpolitik; Ideologikritik;

   Abstract : This thesis explores how the Lacanian concept of ‘the enjoyment of the Other’ (la jouissance de l’Autre) can be applied to break open normative understandings of the political factors shaping the climate crisis deadlock. The principal aim is to investigate how ostensibly disconnected environmental debates may be regarded as linked by an economy of enjoyment, more precisely by the promise of enjoyment by which the subject is libidinally attached to an ideology. READ MORE

4. 3. Methods for local energy and climate planning : A Case stuudy on the Urban Community of Dunkirk

   University essay from KTH/Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM)

   Author : Sacha Thibault; [2023]
   Keywords : Energy transition - Climate and energy policy - Renewable energy - Decision-Support Tools - Local authorities; Energiomställning - Klimat- och energipolitik - Förnybar energi - Verktyg för beslutsstöd - Lokala myndigheter;

   Abstract : Energy management concerns were raised in France after the oil crisis in the 1970s. From then, the local actors developed policies to better control the energy production and consumption on the territories. Climate considerations and the need to limit greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions were then added to these energy issues in the early 2000s. READ MORE

5. 4. Ogräsfrönas överlevnad i biogasanläggningar : en litteraturgenomgång och ansats till metaanalys

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Crop Production Ecology

   Author : Elin Strömberg; [2023]
   Keywords : anaerobisk nerbrytning; biogas; biogasreaktor; biogödsel; dödlighet; frö; ogräs; retentionstid; rötning; rötrest; rötslam; substrat; temperatur; överlevnad;

   Abstract : Sveriges energibehov 2020 var 508 TWh och av det är kärnkraft, biobränsle, olja och vattenkraft de viktigaste energislagen. På grund av att biogasproduktion har ett netto noll utsläpp har regeringen har valt att investera 40% av klimatklivets budget till dessa projekt. READ MORE

6. 5. Sin Stocks: An Analysis of the Sin Premium in the US, European, and Asia-Pacific Markets

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Tizian Widmer; Tim Scholl; [2023]
   Keywords : Sin Stocks; Factor Models; USA; Europe; Asia-Pacific; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : This thesis aims to explain the return of so-called sin stocks, which include businesses operating in the alcohol, tobacco, gambling, weapon, and oil & gas industries. Due to their negative public perception, these stocks are anticipated to yield a sin premium. READ MORE