Regulators attest that tightened energy efficiency standards save consumers money. Efficient light bulbs, appliances … fuel efficiency. And the disconnect between fuel expenses and vehicle choice holds whether we examine anticipated or …

Energy efficiency improvements "rebound" when economic responses undercut their direct energy savings. I show that … efficiency of the energy supply sector generate especially large rebound because they make energy cheaper in all other sectors …. Quantitatively, improving the efficiency of U.S. non-energy supply sectors by 1% would reduce U.S. energy use by 0.58%, with rebound …

Many analysts have argued that energy efficiency investments offer an enormous "win-win" opportunity to both reduce … imperfect information that cause consumers and firms not to exploit privately-profitable energy efficiency investments. The … information provision, energy efficiency subsidies and standards may be merited. We therefore review the empirical work on the …

The history of innovation in the chemical industry offers many insights for accelerating energy innovation. In this … chapter, we begin by laying out the early history of the chemical industry for an overview of the role innovation has played … coal to oil, and briefly analyze two government programs that have attempted to promote innovation: synthetic rubber and …

existing knowledge have strongly significant positive effects on innovation. Furthermore, I show that omitting the quality of …

It follows from Hicks' induced innovation hypothesis that rising energy prices in the last two decades should have … induced energy-saving innovation. We formulate the hypothesis concretely using a product-characteristics model of energy …-using consumer durables, augmenting Hicks' hypothesis to allow for the possibility that government efficiency standards also induce …

Open source is key to innovation, but we know little about how to incentivize it. In this paper, we examine the impact …'s launch. The second is that the actual receipt of sponsorship has a long-lasting negative effect on innovation, as measured by …