Natural gas has replaced coal as the dominant fuel for U.S. electricity generation. However, U.S. states that regulate … electric utilities have retired coal more slowly than others. We build a structural model of rate-of-return regulation during … an energy transition where utilities face tradeoffs between lowering costs and maintaining coal capacity. We find that …

) retail electricity services that include the distribution network, the retail cost of transmission service, and often …

electricity prices …

% of natural gas electricity production as of 2020. The ownership changes are concentrated in deregulated wholesale markets …Despite the incentives of incumbent domestic listed corporations (DLCs) in the electricity generation industry, private … which attract more capital from new entrants to create renewable and natural gas plants, acquire existing plants, and …

The phasedown of coal for electricity generation is considered vital to meeting global climate targets. Many countries …, several states do. In this paper, we examine the feasibility of phasing down U.S. coal-generated electricity given the … have pledged to stop using coal, with some as early as 2030. While the United States has no target currently in place …

the Mercury and Air Toxics Standard, estimating a dynamic oligopoly model of technology adoption and exit for coal … electricity generators that extends moment-based Markov equilibrium. To recover annual profits, we develop estimators for ramping …

We evaluate distributional and efficiency consequences of the bulk power clean electricity tax credits authorized by … the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. To do so, we link detailed electricity capacity expansion, computable general … analyzed the bulk power tax credits lead to increased clean electricity technology deployment resulting in a reallocation of …

problem: electricity supply equals demand and an assumption of monotonicity. We show that these constraints can be used to …Environmental policy is increasingly concerned with measuring emissions resulting from local changes to electricity … consumption. These marginal emissions are challenging to measure because electricity grids encompass multiple locations and the …

This paper estimates consumer demand for firearms with the aim of predicting the likely impacts of firearm regulations … individual-level demand model for firearms. We validate our estimates using aggregate moments from observational data. Next, we …. Importantly, we find that bans or restrictions that specifically target "assault weapons" increase demand for handguns, which are …