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Proponents of Bitcoin argue that demand for electricity from Bitcoin miners can lead to an increase in renewable … electricity capacity. We rigorously evaluate this claim by estimating a Bitcoin electricity demand curve and include this demand … curve in a long-run model of the Texas electricity market. We find that while Bitcoin mining can indeed increase renewable …
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We use four incentivized representative surveys to study the endowment effect for lotteries in 4,000 U.S. adults. We replicate the standard finding of an endowment effect—the divergence between Willingness to Accept (WTA) and Willingness to Pay (WTP), but document three new findings. First, we...
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Is green consumerism beneficial to the environment and the economy? To shed light on this question, we study the political economy of environmental regulations in a model with neutral and green consumers where the latter derive some warm glow from buying a good of higher environmental quality...
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are on electricity-included property lease contracts causing them to face a marginal electricity price of zero. We use … electricity in response to summer temperature fluctuations. The result is retrieved under weaker identifying assumptions than … previous split incentives papers, and is robust when exposed to several opportunities to fail. The electricity reduction in …
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Electricity is a general purpose technology and the catalyst for the second industrial revolution. Developing countries … with the length of higher-voltage electricity lines. Instrumenting for electrification using hydroelectric potential, we …
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This paper develops a pseudo-panel approach to examine household electricity demand behaviour through the household … evidence that the income elasticity of French residential electricity demand is 0.22, averaged over our four cohorts of … electricity consumption follows an inverted U-shaped distribution as a function of the age of the household's head. Most notably …
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We analyse the drivers of European Power Exchange (EPEX) wholesale electricity prices between 2012 and early 2022 using … effects are key in wholesale electricity markets. Out-of- sample prediction errors using machine learning are (slightly) lower … green the energy matrix on wholesale electricity prices are first order. CO2 permit prices strongly impact electricity …
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Myriad policy measures aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector, promote generation from … lower electricity prices. Even with multiple market failures, emissions pricing remains the single most cost …
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interwoven in the electricity market as the producers of green electricity are also the suppliers of TGCs. In this paper, we … formulate an analytic equilibrium model for simultaneously functioning electricity and TGC markets, and focus on the role of … market power. We consider a Stackelberg leadership model with endogenous treatment of the interaction between the electricity …
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We formulate a model with black, green and white certificates markets that function in conjunction with an electricity ….g. share of green electricity and share of energy saving/ efficiency increase.) The equilibrium solution adapts to changing …, or unchanged consumption of ”black”, ”green” or ”white” electricity. These, markets give thus a poor guidance for future …
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