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This paper investigates the impact of the largest rail strikes in German history on intercity buses – a then newly liberalised market. Using unique booking data of bus services, we exploit variation in rail service cancellations across routes to show that the disruption in rail transport...
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We develop a spatial model of energy exploitation where energy sources are differentiated by their geographic location … and energy density. The spatial setting creates a scaling law that magnifies the importance of differences across energy … plays must first boom and then bust. For both renewable and non-renewable energy sources we link the size of exploitation …
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development, characterized by the role of fossil fuels and by the progressive dominance of those with a higher energy and density … countries, compatible with the sustainability of the processes concerning the Earth system. Mainly by focusing on the energy …
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2013, including detailed energy consumption and household income and tax payment characteristics. While the theoretical … find a positive mark-up of 49%, in our data. This suggests that, in practice, the government is concerned with energy …
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The paper considers a climate change growth model with three R&D sectors dedicated to energy, backstop and CCS (Carbon … Capture and Storage) efficiency. First, we characterize the set of decentralized equilibria: A particular equilibrium is …
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This paper presents the first investigation of the effects of optimal energy taxation in an urban spatial setting …
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sector, endogenous fertility, directed technical change and fossil/renewable energy. We estimate the world economy is more …
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applied modules they use for representing sectoral energy and emission characteristics and dynamics. The purpose is to provide … technical insight into recent advances in the modelling of current and future energy and abatement technologies and how they can … be used to make baseline projections and scenarios 20-80 years ahead. In order to represent likely energy system …
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interventions can be scaled up. In cooperation with a large public utility in Germany, we develop an energy savings application for … set themselves energy consumption targets. The roll-out of the app is promoted by a mass-marketing campaign and large … financial incentives. Results document low demand for the energy app in the general population and a tightly estimated null …
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evidence on energy use, efficiency, and prices in the United States, as well as the standard balanced growth facts. I use the … study the dynamic impacts of exogenous improvements in energy efficiency and R&D subsidies for energy efficiency, focusing on … interventions on final-use energy consumption, an important driver of carbon emissions. In the model, energy demand is driven by …
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