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Economic Aspects of the Energy Transition

Heal, Geoffrey - 2020

I make three points relating to the transition from fossil fuels to non-carbon energy. One is that the economic cost of moving from fossil fuels to renewable energy in electricity generation is very low, and probably lower than many estimates of the economic benefits from this change. The second...

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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 of wind and solar power. In addition to pumped storage,...

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Energy Policy with Externalities and Internalities

Allcott, Hunt - 2012

We analyze optimal policy when consumers of energy-using durables undervalue energy costs relative to their private optima. First, there is an Internality Dividend from Externality Taxes: aside from reducing externalities, they also offset distortions from underinvestment in energy efficiency....

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Blackouts in the Developing World : The Role of Wholesale Electricity Markets

Jha, Akshaya; Preonas, Louis; Burlig, Fiona - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

explanation using novel data from India, home to the world's third-largest electricity sector. In contrast to the developed world …

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The Impact of Interwar Protection : Evidence from India

Arthi, Vellore - 2020

Research on the quantitative impact of interwar protection on trade flows remains scarce, and much of it has concluded that the impact was surprisingly small. In this paper we ask: Did Indian interwar protection hurt UK manufacturers, by raising tariffs on manufactured imports? Or did it favour...

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Chinese Firm and Industry Reactions to Antidumping Initiations and Measures

Li, Chunding - 2010

are against China; India, in turn, is the largest source of initiation against China by number of actions. Here we explore …

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Measuring Changes in the Bilateral Technology Gaps between China, India and the U.S. 1979 - 2008

Shen, Keting - 2015

's technology gaps both with the U.S. and India between 1979 and 2008, comparing the technology level of these economies using a CES … India and the U.S. for the period before 2008. The pairwise gaps between the U.S. and China, and the U.S. and India remain … productivity than India over the period, the bilateral technology gap between China and India is still in India's favor. India had …

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The Revived Bretton Woods System's First Decade

Dooley, Michael P. - 2014

cycle. Finally, recent policy initiatives suggest that India is poised to replace China as the dominant periphery country …

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Patterns of Intra- and Inter-State Trade

Wolf, Holger C. - 1997

Recent studies suggest that intranational trade is "excessive' compared to international trade. An intuitive explanation for this home bias is provided by national trade barriers. A dataset of trade between US states, however, reveals that home bias extends to subnational units. The data suggest...

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Trade and Environment Beyond Singapore

Whalley, John - 1996

This paper discusses the likely evolution of the trade and environment issue in the World Trade Organization after the upcoming ministerial meeting in Singapore this December. It makes a number of points. Progress within the GATT/WTO on this issue looks likely to be slow and painfully...

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