Essays about: "cluster analysis european union"
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1. United through Division: An Innovative Approach to European Monetary Policy : A Study of the Optimal Currency Areas in the European Union through Cluster Analysis Conducted on Samples Between 2007–2019
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Nationalekonomi; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakultetenAbstract : The study deals with the theory of optimal currency areas complemented with the EU's Maastricht criteria in order to investigate how today’s Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union can be divided into smaller unions with countries that are more homogeneous based on said criteria compared to the current larger currency union. To investigate this, we use cluster analysis as the method easily enables analysis of similarities and differences between countries. READ MORE
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2. FIT & FAIR FOR 55? - A frame analysis of fairness arguments on the EU’s 2021 emission reduction proposals within the Council of the European Union
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Fairness, usually not a common consideration in international bargaining, features prominently in global climate negotiations. Also within the European Union, typically (self-)portrayed as a unified climate actor, discussing fair emission reduction targets divides the Member States. READ MORE
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3. Salvaging Death Worlds : Drivers and Barriers to the Adoption of Biogas and Biofertilizer Production Systems on Gotland
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknikAbstract : Utilizing an interdisciplinary, multi-level perspective analysis this thesis reviews niche- regime-landscape interactions (analogous to the clusters of actors working at the local level of Gotland representing niche; the regime being national governance goals; and the landscape incorporating global level affairs and institutions such as the European Union (EU)) and their (mis)alignments within the biogas/biofertilizer production system of Gotland, Sweden, a small-island case study for energy-food-transportation transition and sustainable destination development. The study analyzes the heterarchical and polycentric development of biogas on Gotland—a socio-technical niche, nested within a larger energy regime and global landscape for transition—developing an understanding of (mis)alignments of pressures interacting on, at, and between the niche-regime- landscape as they combine with the peculiar competencies, as Loorbach describes, “creative minds, strategists, and visionaries” of a cluster of actors working in the food- energy-transport nexus on the island (2010, p. READ MORE
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4. Heating Energy Performance & LCC Analysis on Renovation Proposals of a Multi-Family Apartment Cluster
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Energi och byggnadsdesign; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljöAbstract : The study was carried out to assess the energy performance of the buildings in a cluster located in Lund. The buildings were the projects of million homes program, built in the 1960s, and are in great need of renovation. Five retrofit techniques were proposed in the study. READ MORE
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5. Increasingly unequal? Convergence of real wages in the EU
University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : The European union has taken steps to remove obstacles for labor mobility and per neoclassical economic theory this should lead to an equalisation of the real wages through an increase in labor mobility. Real wages is an important indicator of welfare and the equalisation process is called convergence by economists. READ MORE
