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induced by higher energy prices, will reduce emissions by nearly 50%. A modest fraction of general investment in industrial …. Even without specific environmental policies the process of general economic reform, together with the energy conservation …
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The paper is concerned with the empirical modelling of domestic demand for energy in the United Kingdom at the level of …-stage budgeting model of the household's demand for energy conditional on its ownership of durables. Preferences at both stages of the … data has not been fully exploited in the analysis of energy demand to date. Unrestricted reduced-form estimates are …
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This paper examines future energy and emissions scenarios in China generated by the Integrated Assessment Model WITCH …
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innovative activity with a special emphasis on the role of knowledge spillovers. We investigate two major renewable energy …
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate how energy policy should respond to the changes in the organisation of … energy sector associated with privatisation. The paper begins with a brief review of how energy policy was perceived before … need to rethink energy policy in the light of experience and the changes in market structure. The four questions raised by …
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technical progress in the energy sector. We evaluate a range of innovation policies, both as a stand-alone instrument and in …
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There has been much debate recently about the nature of environmental policy that will be set by governments concerned about the competitive advantage their industries might obtain in a world of fierce trade competition. Some claim governments will set environmental policies that are too lax,...
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This paper studies fiscal federalism when regions differ in voters’ ability to monitor public officials. We develop a model of political agency in which rent-seeking politicians provide public goods to win support from heterogeneously informed voters. In equilibrium, voter information...
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tax competition may lead to emission taxes that are either too low or too high. They may be so high that the investment is …
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We derive conditions of individual preferences and technology that give rise to a negative correlation between income inequality and environmental protection. We present a class of models (which captures a static model as well as an overlapping-generations model) in which individuals differ in...
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