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Can Natural Gas Save Lives? Evidence from the Deployment of a Fuel Delivery System in a Developing Country

Cesur, Resul - 2016

There has been a widespread displacement of coal by natural gas as space heating and cooking technology in Turkey in …

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The Ups and Downs of Turkish Growth, 2002-2015 : Political Dynamics, the European Union and the Institutional Slide

Acemoglu, Daron - 2015

following Turkey's financial crisis in 2001, but then started moving in the opposite direction in the second half of 2000s. This … military's influence and the broadening of effective political participation. As Turkey-European Union relations collapsed and …-paced and lower-quality growth Turkey has been experiencing since about 2007 …

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What Kinds of Distributed Generation Technologies Defer Network Expansions? Evidence from France

Astier, Nicolas; Iyer, Ramaswamy R.; Wolak, Frank A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper estimates the relationship between investments in five distributed generation technologies and hourly net injections to the distribution grid for over 2,000 substations in France between 2005 and 2018. We find that investments in distributed wind and solar capacity have little or no...

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Crude Oil Price Differentials and Pipeline Infrastructure

McRae, Shaun - 2017

Crude oil production in the United States increased by nearly 80 percent between 2008 and 2016, mostly in areas that were far from existing refining and pipeline infrastructure. The production increase led to substantial discounts for oil producers to reflect the high cost of alternative...

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The Incidence of an Oil Glut : Who Benefits from Cheap Crude Oil in the Midwest?

Borenstein, Severin - 2012

Beginning in early 2011, crude oil production in the U.S. Midwest and Canada surpassed the pipeline capacity to transport it to the Gulf Coast where it could access the world oil market. As a result, the U.S. "benchmark" crude oil price in Cushing, Oklahoma, declined substantially relative to...

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Power Flows : Transmission Lines and Corporate Profits

Hausman, Catherine - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Economists, energy experts, and policymakers have called for accelerating investment in the U.S. electricity transmission network. Additional transmission lines could better integrate markets, reducing the total cost of electricity generation. They could also allow for the better integration of...

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Learning by Viewing? Social Learning, Regulatory Disclosure, and Firm Productivity in Shale Gas

Fetter, T. Robert - 2018

In many industries firms can learn about new technologies from other adopters; mandatory disclosure regulations represent an understudied channel for this type of social learning. We study an environmentally-focused law in the shale gas industry to examine firms' claims that disclosure...

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What Matters for Electrification? Evidence from 70 Years of U.S. Home Heating Choices

Davis, Lucas W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The percentage of U.S. homes heated with electricity has increased steadily from 1% in 1950, to 8% in 1970, to 26% in 1990, to 39% in 2018. This paper investigates the key determinants of this increase in electrification using data on heating choices from millions of U.S. households over a...

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Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Energy Subsidies

Hahn, Robert William; Metcalfe, Robert D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Economic theory suggests that energy subsidies can lead to excessive consumption and environmental degradation. However, the precise impact of energy subsidies is not well understood. We analyze a large energy subsidy: the California Alternate Rates for Energy (CARE). CARE provides a price...

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Do Americans Consume Too Little Natural Gas? An Empirical Test of Marginal Cost Pricing

Davis, Lucas W. - 2010

This paper measures the extent to which prices exceed marginal costs in the U.S. natural gas distribution market during the period 1991-2007. We find large departures from marginal cost pricing in all 50 states, with residential and commercial customers facing average markups of over 40%. Based...

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