Adam Czyzewski – Page 3 – Economics of the energy sector and the low-carbon economy, macroeconomics, innovations, oil&gas

Oil and fuel markets are not the same

July 28, 2015

The quarter’s end is a good time to confront what we had expected would happen on the oil and fuel markets with what actually happened. And this past quarter was certainly interesting in its diversity. During the quarter and after it ended, a number of developments took place that had a profound impact on the… » read more

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Energy, Global Europe, Trade & Industry, Transport, Energy, Global Europe, Transport

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Economic policy recommendations from Nobel laureates

July 15, 2015

As it happened, I was unable to attend the lecture by Prof. Finn E. Kydland and Prof. Edward C. Prescott, entitled ‘The Poor Economic Performances in the EU and the US: Problems are Political, not Economic’, which took place on June 24th in Warsaw. I was in Sopot at that time, presenting the energy and… » read more

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Development Policy, EU Citizens and Media, EU Priorities 2020, Future EU, Global Europe, Regional Policy, Trade & Industry

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European Energy Union

July 8, 2015

The union grows through crises – this phrase yields some 20 million search results about the European Union, even without clarifying what kind of union is meant, while searches related to the growth vision for the European Union, run in various configurations, return 500 thousand results at best. This is several times less than in… » read more

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Climate & Environment, Development Policy, Energy, EU Priorities 2020, Future EU, Global Europe, Innovation & Enterprise, Regional Policy, Development Policy, Energy, EU Priorities 2020, Global Europe, Innovation & Enterprise

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Energetic pragmatism

June 11, 2015

Heads of six European oil and gas companies (BG Group, BP, Eni, Royal Dutch Shell, Statoil, and Total) have issued an appeal for more effective decarbonisation. They argued that the quickest way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions (using today’s technologies) is by phasing out coal in favour of natural gas, particularly in energy generation. In… » read more

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Energy, Energy

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Strategic scenarios – mind over numbers

May 27, 2015

Any strategy refers to specific external factors. In the case of oil companies, macroeconomic variables can include crude oil prices, product margins and the price of the US dollar. As changes in these variables have a strong effect on financial flows, assumptions about their future values are an important element of all business strategies. Since… » read more

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Development Policy, Global Europe, Innovation & Enterprise, Trade & Industry, Development Policy

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Re-industrialising Europe

May 8, 2015

Recently, I have attended a debate on the re-industrialisation of Europe. Frankly, my response was simple. It was a question, really. What is this debate about? Europe has as much industry as it can retain (in the case of old EU member states) or attract (in the case of CEE countries). The process of industry… » read more

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How to spend public money on innovation?

April 15, 2015

Government institutions have a considerable role to play in creating breakthrough innovations. However, as experience demonstrates, not all forms of the state’s involvement in promoting innovation give rise to revolutionary technologies, and they are always paid for with taxpayers’ money. According to the latest studies on how landmark innovations that emerged in the IT, pharmaceutical… » read more

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Innovation & Enterprise

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Cheap oil and strong dollar

April 10, 2015

Crude oil and the US dollar are interconnected on many levels. Oil is one of the world’s most important commodities, while the dollar is the most powerful reserve currency, held by central banks as part of their foreign exchange reserves. Changes in the price of oil and USD exchange rates have a strong impact on… » read more

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Energy, Future EU, Global Europe, Trade & Industry, Transport

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Power of latent demand

March 25, 2015

An innovation is a newly-invented product (service or technology) which has been successful on the market. When the first tablet came out, I was sceptical. How could it be better than a laptop computer? Being half the weight and offering twice the battery life surely did not make up for the missing keyboard and USB… » read more

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Future EU, Innovation & Enterprise, EU Priorities 2020, Global Europe, Uncategorized

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After a digital revolution, time for a revolution in the energy sector

March 17, 2015

On February 28th 2015, I attended a very interesting event – the Polish Economic Forum. Held at the London School of Economics, the conference had been organised by Polish students of the LSE SU Polish Business Society, whose organising skills – in addition to the accompanying attractions – made the Forum a truly spectacular event.… » read more

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Energy, Future EU, Global Europe, Regional Policy, Trade & Industry, Uncategorized

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