Economic Viability and Socio-Environmental Impacts of Solar Home Systems for Off-Grid Rural Electrification in Bangladesh

Sarker, Swati Anindita; Wang, Shouyang; Adnan, K M Mehedi; Anser, Muhammad Khalid; Ayoub, Zeraibi; Ho, Thu Hau; Tama, Riffat Ara Zannat; Trunina, Anna; Hoque, Mahmudul

doi:10.3390/en13030679

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“…In particular, within the first several weeks of the pandemic, countries with low individualism and strong ambiguity resistance had higher instability as well as larger price declines. The private sector, including small business enterprises with a low recovery period (Asif et al, 2020;Iram et al, 2021;Sarker et al, 2020;Tehreem et al, 2020), emphasised that the government should use import substitution or boost domestic consumer and production goods production. The results of our calculation showed a negative association between stock market returns and COVID-19 cases.…”

Section: Covid-19 Fear Nexus With Public Attentionmentioning

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The nexus between COVID-19 fear and stock market volatility

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Kamran

et al. 2021

Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja

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This study described an empirical link between COVID-19 fear and stock market volatility. Studying COVID-19 fear with stock market volatility is crucial for planning adequate portfolio diversification in international financial markets. The study used AR (1) -GARCH (1,1) to measure stock market volatility associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings suggest that COVID-19 fear is the ultimate cause driving public attention and stock market volatility. The results demonstrate that stock market performance and GDP growth decreased significantly through average increases during the pandemic. Further, with a 1% increase in COVID-19 cases, the stock return and GDP decreased by 0.8%, 0.56%, respectively. However, GDP growth demonstrated a slight movement with stock exchange. Moreover, public attention to the attitude of buying or selling was highly dependent on the COVID-19 pandemic reported cases index, death index, and global fear index. Consequently, investment in the gold market, rather than in the stock market, is recommended. The study also suggests policy implications for key stakeholders.

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Section: Covid-19 Fear Nexus With Public Attentionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The nexus between COVID-19 fear and stock market volatility

Chien

Kamran

et al. 2021

Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja

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“…The smooth transition model family is used to account for non-linear dynamics in the volatility method (Asif et al 2020), (Sarker et al 2020), (Iram et al 2020), and (Tehreem et al 2020). These allow observed variables to influence the transition between regimes, despite the presence of unobservable variables.…”

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COVID-19 fear and volatility index movements: empirical insights from ASEAN stock markets

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Hsu

Zhang

et al. 2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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This research aims to look into the effect of COVID-19 on emerging stock markets in seven of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' (ASEAN-7) member countries from March 21, 2020 to April 31, 2020. This paper uses a ST-HAR-type Bayesian posterior model and it highlights the stock market of this ongoing crisis, such as, COVID-19 outbreak in all countries and related industries. The empirical results shown a clear evidence of a transition during COVID-19 crisis regime, also crisis intensity and timing differences. The most negatively impacted industries were health care and consumer services due to the Covid-19 drug-race and international travel restrictions. More so, study results estimated that only a small number of sectors are affected by COVID-19 fear including health care, consumer services, utilities, and technology, significance at the 1%, 5%, and 10%, that measure current volatility's reliance on weekly and monthly variables. Secondly, it is found that there is almost no chance that the COVID-19 pandemic would positively affect the stock market performance in all the countries, mainly Indonesia and Singapore were the countries most affected. Thirdly, results shown that Thailand's stock market output has dropped by 15%. Results shows that COVID-19 fear causes an eventual reason of public attention towards stock market volatility. The study presented comprehensive way forwards to stabilize movement of ASEAN equity market's volatility index and guided the policy implications to key stakeholders that can better help to mitigate drastic impacts of COVID-19 fear on the performance of equity markets.

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“…Econometric does not require a comprehensive understanding of data allocation necessary for the maximum likelihood estimation (MLE). However, a specified moment generated with the original model is required for this method (Asif et al 2020;Sarker et al 2020;Iram et al 2020a, andTehreem et al 2020). The computation of econometric is easy for available data allocation, unlike the computation of MLE.…”

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Does the combining effects of energy and consideration of financial development lead to environmental burden: social perspective of energy finance?

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Chau

Ady

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Environ Sci Pollut Res

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In light of the rapidly growing industrialization in BRICS and G7 regions, thorough energy, financials, and environmental analyses are essential for sustainable financial development in these countries. In this context, this work analyzes the relationship between energy, financial, and environmental sustainability and the regions’ social performance. Data from 2000 to 2017 is analyzed through a data envelopment analysis (DEA) like a composite index. Results show China and Brazil’s better performance in the region, with a sustainability score of 0.96, India was the third, followed by South Africa and Russia. Japan, the UK, and the USA were the most energy-efficient countries for five consecutive years. A 0.18%, 0.27%, 0.22%, 0.09%, 0.31%, and 0.32% reduction in carbon emission is observed with a 1% increase in R&D costs by Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the USA, respectively. This work contributes to the existing literature regarding an eco-friendly sustainable policy design for the G7 countries based on multiple indicators.

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Economic Viability and Socio-Environmental Impacts of Solar Home Systems for Off-Grid Rural Electrification in Bangladesh

Cited by 49 publications

References 36 publications

The nexus between COVID-19 fear and stock market volatility

The nexus between COVID-19 fear and stock market volatility

COVID-19 fear and volatility index movements: empirical insights from ASEAN stock markets

Does the combining effects of energy and consideration of financial development lead to environmental burden: social perspective of energy finance?

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