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Modeling and Forecasting Commodity Market Volatility with Long-term Economic and Financial Variables 用长期经济和金融变量建模和预测商品市场波动

EnergyRN: Other Energy Finance Pub Date : 2018-12-03 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3294967

D. K. Nguyen, T. Walther

引用次数: 46

Narrowing the Energy Efficiency Gap: The Impact of Educational Programs, Online Support Tools and Energy-Related Investment Literacy 缩小能源效率差距:教育项目、在线支持工具和能源相关投资知识的影响

EnergyRN: Other Energy Finance Pub Date : 2017-09-21 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3043233

J. Blasch, M. Filippini, Nilkanth Kumar, Adan L. Martinez-Cruz

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引用次数: 42