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Bush Meets Hotelling: Effects of Improved Renewable Energy Technology on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Hoel, Michael - CESifo - 2008
Fossil fuels are non-renewable carbon resources, and the extraction path of these resources depends both on present and future demand. When this "Hotelling feature" is taken into consideration, the whole price path of carbon fuel will shift downwards as a response to the reduced cost of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765659
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Environmental and Technology Policy Options in the Electricity Sector: Interactions and Outcomes
Fischer, Carolyn; Newell, Richard G.; Preonas, Louis - CESifo - 2014
spillovers and imperfections in the demand for energy efficiency. We conclude that some technology policies, particularly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764280
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The Supply Side of CO2 with Country Heterogeneity
Hoel, Michael - CESifo - 2011
Several recent articles have analyzed climate policy giving explicit attention to the non-renewable character of carbon resources. In most of this literature the economy is treated as a single unit, which in the context of climate policy seems reasonable to interpret as the whole world. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008914283
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Subsidizing Renewable Energy under Capital Mobility
Eichner, Thomas; Runkel, Marco - CESifo - 2010
This paper provides a rationale for subsidizing green (renewable) energy production. Within a multi-country model where energy is produced with mobile capital in green and dirty production, we investigate the countries’ decentralized choice of emissions taxes and green energy subsidies....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671715
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Cutting Costs of Catching Carbon - Intertemporal Effects under Imperfect Climate Policy
Hoel, Michael; Jensen, Svenn - CESifo - 2010
We use a two-period model to investigate intertemporal effects of cost reductions in climate change mitigation technologies for the power sector. With imperfect climate policies, cost reductions related to carbon capture and storage (CCS) may be more desirable than com-parable cost reductions...
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Access to Technology and the Transfer Function of Community Colleges: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - CESifo - 2014
Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year … colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in … first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010888455
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Elections and Market Provision of Information
Bruns, Christian - CESifo - 2013
information if media technology is available because then they do not condition their informational decisions on being pivotal … the technology to produce information. …Economists usually think that rational voters have little incentives to acquire costly information. We present a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877742
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Knowledge is Power - A Theory of Information, Income, and Welfare Spending
Lind, Jo Thori; Rohner, Dominic - CESifo - 2011
No voters cast their votes based on perfect information, but better educated and richer voters are on average better … strong correlation between income and political information, Congress representatives vote more conservatively, which is also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009324089
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Worker Characteristics and Wage Differentials: Evidence from a Gift-Exchange Experiment
Englmaier, Florian; Strasser, Sebastian; Winter, Joachim - CESifo - 2011
productivity and their social preferences. This paper presents causal evidence that they do. In a real-effort experiment, we elicit … measures of workers’ productivity and trustworthiness and make this information available to potential employers. Our data show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364733
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Profitable Horizontal Mergers without Cost Advantages: The Role of Internal Organization, Information, and Market Structure
Huck, Steffen; Konrad, Kai A.; Müller, Wieland - CESifo - 2001
with various empirical findings, is the assumption that information about output decisions flows more freely within a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765715