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When Does Regulation Distort Costs? Lessons from Fuel Procurement in U.S. Electricity Generation

Cicala, Steve - 2014

This paper evaluates changes in fuel procurement practices by coal- and gas-fired power plants in the United States … plants substantially reduce the price paid for coal (but not gas), and tend to employ less capital-intensive sulfur abatement … more productive coal mines. I show how these results lend support to theories of asymmetric information, capital bias, and …

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Climate Policy and Voluntary Initiatives : An Evaluation of the Connecticut Clean Energy Communities Program

Kotchen, Matthew J. - 2010

Can simple government programs effectively promote voluntary initiatives to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions? This paper provides an evaluation of how the Connecticut Clean Energy Communities program affects household decisions to voluntarily purchase "green" electricity, which is electricity...

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Inferring Carbon Abatement Costs in Electricity Markets : A Revealed Preference Approach using the Shale Revolution

Cullen, Joseph A. - 2014

advantage of coal-fired power plants. The shale revolution has resulted in unprecedented variation in natural gas prices that we …

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Updating the Allocation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Permits in a Federal Cap-and-Trade Program

Fowlie, Meredith - 2010

U.S. adoption of a cap-and-trade program for greenhouse gases could place some domestic producers at a disadvantage relative to international competitors who do not face similar regulation. To address this issue, proposed federal climate change legislation includes a provision that would freely...

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Markets for Anthropogenic Carbon Within the Larger Carbon Cycle

Borenstein, Severin - 2010

Human activity has disrupted the natural balance of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and is causing climate change. Burning fossil fuels and deforestation result directly in about 9 gigatons of carbon (GtC) emissions per year against the backdrop of the natural carbon flux -- emission and...

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Projections and Uncertainties About Climate Change in an Era of Minimal Climate Policies

Nordhaus, William D. - 2016

Climate change remains one of the major international environmental challenges facing nations. Up to now, nations have to date adopted minimal policies to slow climate change. Moreover, there has been no major improvement in emissions trends as of the latest data. The current study uses the...

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Population Growth and Carbon Emissions

Casey, Gregory - 2016

We provide evidence that lower fertility can simultaneously increase income per capita and lower carbon emissions, eliminating a trade-off central to most policies aimed at slowing global climate change. We estimate the effect of lower fertility on carbon emissions accounting for the fact that...

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Will the Paris Accord Accelerate Climate Change?

Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - 2016

Finally we question the standard use of infinitely-lived, single-agent models, which assume, unrealistically, intergenerational altruism in determining optimal abatement policy. Their prescriptions can differ, potentially dramatically, from those needed to correct the negative climate...

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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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Natural Gas Prices and Coal Displacement : Evidence from Electricity Markets

Knittel, Christopher R. - 2015

. Our focus is on quantifying short-term coal-to-gas switching decisions by different types of electric power plants in …

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