development, characterized by the role of fossil fuels and by the progressive dominance of those with a higher energy and density … countries, compatible with the sustainability of the processes concerning the Earth system. Mainly by focusing on the energy …

While fossil energy dependency has declined and energy supply has grown in the postwar world economy, future resource … scarcity could cast its shadow on world economic growth soon if energy markets are forward looking. We develop an endogenous … growth model that reconciles the current aggregate trends in energy use and productivity growth with the intertemporal …

The paper considers a climate change growth model with three R&D sectors dedicated to energy, backstop and CCS (Carbon …

We develop a spatial model of energy exploitation where energy sources are differentiated by their geographic location … and energy density. The spatial setting creates a scaling law that magnifies the importance of differences across energy … plays must first boom and then bust. For both renewable and non-renewable energy sources we link the size of exploitation …

renewable sources, and encourage energy conservation. To what extent do innovation and energy efficiency (EE) market failures … advanced and conventional renewable energy technologies and short and long-run EE investments. We incorporate both knowledge … spillovers and imperfections in the demand for energy efficiency. We conclude that some technology policies, particularly …

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. Without green subsidies, the emissions tax is set inefficiently low, since each …

be more desirable than com-parable cost reductions related to renewable energy. The finding rests on the incentives …