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Efficiency and Environment Impacts of Electricity Restructuring on Coal-Fired Power Plants

Chan, H. Ron - 2013

We investigate the impacts of electricity market restructuring on fuel efficiency, utilization and, new to this area, cost of coal purchases among coal-fired power plants using a panel data set from 1991 to 2005. Our study focuses exclusively on coal-fired power plants and uses panel data...

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Optimal Emission-Extraction Policy in a World of Scarcity and Irreversibility

Prieur, Fabien; Tidball, Mabel; Withagen, Cees - 2021

This paper extends the classical exhaustible-resource/stock-pollution model with the irreversibility of pollution decay …. Within this framework, we answer the question how the potential irreversibility of pollution affects the extraction path. We … example. To sum up, for any pollution level, we can identify a critical resource stock such that there exist multiple optima i …

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Effects of Stricter Environmental Regulations on Resource Development

Lange, Ian - 2018

This analysis seeks to understand whether changes in oil regulation brought about by the shale revolution have restricted the pace of drilling and production. This hypothesis is tested using data on North Dakota and Montana both before and after North Dakota increased the level of bonding...

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The Hartwick rule : myths and facts

Asheim, Geir B.; Buchholz, Wolfgang; Withagen, Cees - In: Justifying, characterizing and indicating sustainability, (pp. 125-145). 2007

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Characterizing sustainability : the converse of Hartwick's rule

Withagen, Cees; Asheim, Geir B. - In: Justifying, characterizing and indicating sustainability, (pp. 171-177). 2007

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On the sustainable program in Solow's model

Withagen, Cees; Asheim, Geir B.; Buchholz, Wolfgang - In: Justifying, characterizing and indicating sustainability, (pp. 179-189). 2007

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Sustainability of German Fiscal Policy and Public Debt : Historical and Time Series Evidence for the Period 1850-2010

Burret, Heiko - 2013

In the last decades, the majority of OECD countries has experienced a continuous increase in public debt. The European debt crisis has prompted a fundamental re‐evaluation of public debt sustainability and the looming threat of sovereign debt default. Due to a multitude of large scale events...

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Fiscal Sustainability of the German Laender Time Series Evidence

Burret, Heiko - 2014

In this paper we analyze the sustainability of public finances in the states (Laender) of the Federal Republic of Germany using an unprecedentedly comprehensive fiscal dataset for the time period from 1950 to 2011 for West German Laender and 1991 to 2011 for East German Laender, respectively. In...

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Characterizing the Sustainability Problem in an Exhaustible Resource Model

Mitra, Tapan; Asheim, Geir B.; Buchholz, Wolfgang; … - 2021

The Dasgupta-Heal-Solow-Stiglitz model of capital accumulation and resource depletion poses the following sustainability problem: is it feasible to sustain indefinitely a level of consumption that is bounded away from zero? We provide a complete technological characterization of the...

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