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The role of Venture Capital and Governments in Clean Energy : Lessons from the First Cleantech Bubble
Heuvel, Matthias van den; Popp, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
After a boom and bust cycle in the early 2010s, venture capital (VC) investments are, once again, flowing towards green businesses. In this paper, we use Crunchbase data on 150,000 US startups founded between 2000 and 2020 to better understand why VC initially did not prove successful in funding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191014
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Local Labor Market Impacts of the Energy Transition : Prospects and Policies
Hanson, Gordon H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
coal as a backdrop, I discuss policy options for easing adjustment to the energy transition, including letting market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013537765
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Induced Innovation, Inventors, and the Energy Transition
Dugoua, Eugenie; Gerarden, Todd - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study how individual inventors respond to incentives to work on "clean" electricity technologies. Using natural gas price variation, we estimate output and entry elasticities of inventors and measure the medium-term impacts of a price increase mirroring the social cost of carbon. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014421213
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Climate Change, Directed Innovation, and Energy Transition : The Long-run Consequences of the Shale Gas Revolution
Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Barrage, Lint; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
coal, natural gas, or clean sources and the direction of technology is endogenous. In the short run, a natural gas boom … reduces carbon emissions by inducing substitution away from coal. Yet, the natural gas boom discourages innovation directed at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372414
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The Cost of Climate Policy to Capital : Evidence from Renewable Portfolio Standards
Hong, Harrison G.; Kubik, Jeffrey D.; Shore, Edward P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Many US states have set ambitious renewable portfolio standards (RPS) that require utilities to switch from fossil fuels toward renewables. RPS increases the renewables capacity, bond issuance, maturity, and yield spreads of investor-owned utilities compared to municipal producers that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014447281
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The Shifting Finance of Electricity Generation
Andonov, Aleksandar; Rauh, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
accelerate the decommissioning of coal plants. Sales of fossil fuel plants from DLCs to foreign corporations result in some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014635696
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Electric Vehicles and the Energy Transition : Unintended Consequences of a Common Retail Rate Design
Bailey, Megan R.; Brown, David P.; Meyers, Erica; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The growth of electric vehicles (EVs) raises new challenges for electricity systems. We implement a field experiment to assess the effect of time-of-use (TOU) pricing and managed charging on EV charging behavior. We find that while TOU pricing is effective at shifting EV charging into off-peak...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015056212
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The Consumption Response to Seasonal Income : Evidence from Japanese Public Pension Benefits
Stephens, Melvin, Jr - 2010
Japanese public pension benefits, which were distributed quarterly through February 1990 and every other month since then, induce substantial but predictable income fluctuations. The relative magnitude of the payments combined with the delay between payments yields a stronger test of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462314
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Buy coal? Deposit markets prevent carbon leakage
Harstad, Bård - 2010
If a coalition of countries implements climate policies, nonparticipants tend to consume more, pollute more, and invest too little in renewable energy sources. In response, the coalition's equilibrium policy distorts trade and is not time-consistent. This paper derives conditions for when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462537
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Did Frederick Brodie Discover the World's First Environmental Kuznets Curve? Coal Smoke and the Rise and Fall of the London Fog
Clay, Karen - 2010
coal smoke, arguing that before 1890 Londoners burned excessive amounts of soft coal, while in the years following, a … series of legal, demographic, and technological changes mitigated the production of coal smoke. This paper asks two questions … changes in the production of coal smoke, or were they the result of some broader meteorological phenomenon. The evidence we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462983