The Clean Techs equity indexes at stake: Risk and return dynamics analysis

Energy

Volumn 57, Issue , 2013, Pages 259-269

  Ortas, Eduardo ^a   Moneva, José M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Clean technologies; Energy companies; Environmental economics; Kalman Filter; State space modeling

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMMERCE; ECONOMICS; KALMAN FILTERS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ALLOCATION POLICIES; CLEAN TECHNOLOGIES; DYNAMICS ANALYSIS; ENERGY COMPANIES; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE; NEW FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT; STATE-SPACE MODELING;

INVESTMENTS;

ENERGY MARKET; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; EQUITY; FINANCIAL CRISIS; INVESTMENT; KALMAN FILTER; MARKET DEVELOPMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRUCTURAL CHANGE;

EID: 84880697903     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2013.03.046     Document Type: Article

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