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following state-level legislation that ended cost-of-service regulation of electricity generation. I find that deregulated …
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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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most important single factor. This framework is then used to calculate the economic cost of an electrification mandate for …
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marginal social cost. Third, benefits to CARE customers need to increase by 6% to offset the costs of the program …
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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 …
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cost has been discussed in the literature as a potentially important component of the total welfare loss from price … data for the U.S. residential market for natural gas which was subject to price ceilings during 1954-1989. This market is … household-level, discrete-continuous model of natural gas demand, we estimate that the allocative cost in the U.S. residential …
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This paper proposes a simple two-step estimation method (Climate Adaptive Response Estimation - CARE) to estimate sectoral climate damage functions, which account for long- run adaptation. The paper applies this method in the context of residential electricity and natural gas demand for the...
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upstream natural gas spot market. We estimate that the elasticity of demand for residential natural gas is between -0.23 and -0 …
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analyze three key stages of gas production: drilling wells, completing wells, and producing natural gas from the completed … wells. We find that the important margin is drilling investment, and neither production from existing wells nor completion … times respond strongly to prices. We estimate a long-run drilling elasticity of 0.7 for both conventional and unconventional …
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There has been a widespread displacement of coal by natural gas as space heating and cooking technology in Turkey in the last two decades, triggered by the deployment of natural gas networks. In this paper, we examine the impact of this development on mortality among adults and the elderly. Our...
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