8 papers
Quantifying Demand Shocks in the Green and Digital Transition
Andrea Bastianin, Luca Rossini, Marco Zoso
We use web search data to construct monthly indexes of derived demand for cobalt, copper, and nickel, which are key inputs in technologies driving the energy and digital transition…
Partially identified heteroskedastic SVARs
Emanuele Bacchiocchi, Andrea Bastianin, Toru Kitagawa +1
This paper studies the identification of Structural Vector Autoregressions (SVARs) exploiting a break in the variances of the structural shocks. Point-identification for this class…
A Real-Time Framework for Forecasting Metal Prices
Andrea Bastianin, Luca Rossini, Lorenzo Tonni
This paper develops a real-time forecasting framework for the monthly real prices of four key industrial metals -- aluminum, copper, nickel, and zinc -- whose demand is rising due…
Macroeconomic Spillovers of Weather Shocks across U.S. States
Emanuele Bacchiocchi, Andrea Bastianin, Graziano Moramarco
We estimate the short-run effects of weather-related disasters on local economic activity and cross-border spillovers that operate through economic linkages between U.S. states. To…
Future Circular Collider Feasibility Study Report: Volume 2, Accelerators, Technical Infrastructure and Safety
M. Benedikt, F. Zimmermann, B. Auchmann +1461
In response to the 2020 Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics, the Future Circular Collider (FCC) Feasibility Study was launched as an international collaboration ho…
Future Circular Collider Feasibility Study Report: Volume 3, Civil Engineering, Implementation and Sustainability
M. Benedikt, F. Zimmermann, B. Auchmann +1461
Volume 3 of the FCC Feasibility Report presents studies related to civil engineering, the development of a project implementation scenario, and environmental and sustainability asp…