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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 estimate the relationship between electricity, fuel and carbon prices in Germany, France, the Netherlands, the Nord … increasing interaction between electricity and input prices on the one hand, and between electricity markets on the other. The …
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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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This paper studies the stability of socially responsible behavior in markets. We develop a laboratory product market in which low-cost production creates a negative externality for third parties, but where alternative production with higher costs entirely mitigates the externality. Our data...
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subsidized entry of wind power in the Nordic electricity market. A relatively small-scale entry of renewables leads to a large … the total electricity market expenditures. The subsidies generate net gains to consumers. We develop an approach to …
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In this study, the real demand for global and local environmental protection in Beijing, China, is elicited and investigated. Participants from Beijing were offered the opportunity to contribute to voluntary climate change mitigation by purchasing permits from two Chinese CO2 emissions trading...
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Willingness to pay (WTP) and willingness to accept (WTA) a monetary amount for a lottery should be closely related. In data from an incentivized survey of a representative sample of 3,000 U.S. adults, we find that WTA and WTP for a lottery are, at best, weakly correlated. Across all respondents,...
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of defense policy, namely an increase in the security of citizens, by means of a survey-based discrete choice experiment …
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