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Federal Tax Policy Towards Energy
Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2006
On Aug. 8, 2005, President Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (PL 109-58). This was the first major piece of energy legislation enacted since 1992 following five years of Congressional efforts to pass energy legislation. Among other things, the law contains tax incentives worth over $14...
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Demand and Pricing in Electricity Markets : Evidence from San Diego During California's Energy Crisis
Reiss, Peter C. - 2003
We study the electricity consumption of San Diego-area households following a series of price changes and related events during California's energy crisis in 2000-01. The analysis uses a five-year panel of disaggregate billing and weather data for a random sample of 70,000 households. In...
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Global Energy Outlook 2015
Newell, Richard G. - 2016
China and India. Most projections show energy demand growing as much or more in absolute terms to 2040 than previous multi …
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Estimating the Spatial Amplification of Damage Caused by Degradation in the Amazon
Araujo, Rafael; Assunção, Juliano J.; Hirota, Marina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The Amazon rainforests have been undergoing unprecedented levels of human-induced disturbances. In addition to local impacts, such changes are likely to cascade following the eastern-western atmospheric flow generated by trade winds. We propose a model of spatial and temporal interactions...
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Costly Blackouts? Measuring Productivity and Environmental Effects of Electricity Shortages
Fisher-Vanden, Karen - 2012
technical efficiency. We examine how industrial firms responded to China's severe power shortages in the early 2000s. Fast …
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Exploring Spatial Price Relationships : The Case of African Swine Fever in China
Delgado, Michael S.; Ma, Meilin; Wang, H. Holly - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
) in China as a natural experiment to study spatial mechanisms behind the dynamics of market integration. With a unique …
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Mechanics of Spatial Growth
Cai, Sheng; Caliendo, Lorenzo; Parro, Fernando; Xiang, Wei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
migration on China's spatial development and aggregate growth during the 1990s and 2000s. We find that initial conditions across … and aggregate growth in China. Changes in international trade costs and mobility restrictions during the 1990s and 2000s …
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Cities, Heterogeneous Firms, and Trade
Bakker, Jan David; García Marín, Alvaro; Potlogea, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Does international trade affect the growth of cities, and vice versa? Assembling disaggregate data for four countries, we document a novel stylized fact: Export activity is disproportionately concentrated in larger cities - even more so than overall economic activity. We rationalize this fact by...
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Why Has China Overinvested in Coal Power?
Ren, Mengjia - 2019
Since 2005, the Chinese government has engaged in an ambitious effort to move China's energy system away from coal and … towards more environmentally friendly sources of energy. However, China's investment in coal power has accelerated sharply in …. In this paper, we ask why China engaged in such a pronounced investment boom in coal power in the mid-2010s. We find the …
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Regulating Conglomerates in China : Evidence from an Energy Conservation Program
Chen, Qiaoyi; Chen, Zhao; Liu, Zhikuo; Suárez Serrato, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We study a prominent energy regulation affecting large Chinese manufacturers that are part of broader conglomerates. Using detailed firm-level data and difference-in-differences research designs, we show that regulated firms cut output and shifted production to unregulated firms in the same...
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