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Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Energy Sector
Popp, David - 2020
Historically, innovation in the energy sector proceeded slowly and entrepreneurial start-up firms played a relatively minor role. We argue that this may be changing. Energy markets are going through a period of profound structural change. The rise of hydrofracturing lowered fossil fuel prices so...
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Understanding Cross-National Trends in High-Tech Renewable Power Equipment Exports to the United States
Sawhney, Aparna - 2011
We track US imports of advanced technology wind and solar power-generation equipment from a panel of countries during 1989-2010, and examine the determining factors including sector-specific US FDI outflow, country size, and domestic wind and solar power generation. Differentiating between the...
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Buffering Volatility : A Study on the Limits of Germany’s Energy Revolution
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2016
Squaring hourly demand and wind-solar production data for Germany and a number of neighbouring countries with the … results of the EU's ESTORAGE project, this paper studies the limits of Germany's energy revolution in view of the volatility …, Norwegian hydro-dam buffering and international diversification via grid expansion. If Germany operated in autarchy and tried to …
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From Russia with Love : The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival
Falck, Oliver - 2010
Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet occupied zone to prevent … expropriation. We show that the regional location decisions of these firms upon moving to western Germany were driven by non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462515
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Should We Give Up After Solyndra? Optimal Technology R&D Portfolios under Uncertainty
Webster, Mort - 2015
Global climate change and other environmental challenges require the development of new energy technologies with lower emissions. In the near-term, R&D investments, either by government or the private sector, can bring down the costs of these lower emission technologies. However, the results of...
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An Assessment of the Energy-Efficiency Gap and its Implications for Climate-Change Policy
Gerarden, Todd D. - 2015
Improving end-use energy efficiency--that is, the energy-efficiency of individuals, households, and firms as they consume energy--is often cited as an important element in efforts to reduce greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. Arguments for improving energy efficiency usually rely on the idea that...
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Assessing the Energy-Efficiency Gap
Gerarden, Todd D. - 2015
Energy-efficient technologies offer considerable promise for reducing the financial costs and environmental damages associated with energy use, but these technologies appear not to be adopted by consumers and businesses to the degree that would apparently be justified, even on a purely financial...
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Transition to Clean Technology
Acemoglu, Daron - 2014
We develop a microeconomic model of endogenous growth where clean and dirty technologies compete in production and innovation--in the sense that research can be directed to either clean or dirty technologies. If dirty technologies are more advanced to start with, the potential transition to...
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Is There an Energy Efficiency Gap?
Allcott, Hunt - 2012
Many analysts have argued that energy efficiency investments offer an enormous "win-win" opportunity to both reduce negative externalities and save money. This overview paper presents a simple model of investment in energy-using capital stock with two types of market failures: first,...
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Market Size and Spatial Growth - Evidence from Germany's Post-War Population Expulsions
Peters, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
and transferred to West Germany. This inflow increased the German population by almost 20%. Using variation across …
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