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Strategic housing policy, migration and sorting around population thresholds

De Witte, Kristof; Geys, Benny - 2015

. We provide evidence that strategic housing policy decisions - i.e. granting additional building permits early in the …

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Will skyscrapers save the planet? : building height limits and urban greenhouse gas emissions

Borck, Rainald - 2014

This paper studies the effectiveness of building height limits as a policy to limit greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It … shows that building height limits lead to urban sprawl and higher emissions from commuting. On the other hand, aggregate … total GHG emissions may be lower under building height restrictions, but only when they are very strict. Welfare is not …

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Tall building and land values : height and construction cost elasticities in Chicago, 1870 - 2010

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; McMillen, Daniel P. - 2017

Cities around the world are experiencing unprecedented vertical growth. Yet, the economics of skyscrapers remain empirically understudied. This paper analyzes the determinants of the urban height profile by combining a micro-geographic data set on tall buildings with a unique panel of land...

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Efficient adaptation to flood risk

Hovekamp, Winston P.; Wagner, Katherine R. H. - 2023

This paper studies whether private adaptation to flood risk is economically efficient. We estimate the return to elevating houses, one of the most significant private defensive investments against flooding, using two decades of microdata on the universe of houses and flood damages in high-risk...

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Fiscal and regulatory instruments for clean technology development in the European Union

Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Popp, David - 2015

This policy note investigates whether the current level of public support to environment-friendly technologies is sufficient to allow European countries to respond to the multiple challenges posed by climate change and other environmental concerns. We first lay out the justifications for...

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Environmental and technology policy options in the electricity sector : interactions and outcomes

Fischer, Carolyn; Newell, Richard G.; Preonas, Louis - 2014

Myriad policy measures aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector, promote generation from renewable sources, and encourage energy conservation. To what extent do innovation and energy efficiency (EE) market failures justify additional interventions when a carbon price is...

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Market power in interactive environmental and energy markets : the case of green certificates

Amundsen, Eirik Schrøder; Nese, Gjermund - 2016

Markets for environmental externalities are typically closely related to the markets causing such externalities, whereupon strategic interaction may result. Along these lines, the market for Tradable Green Certificates (TGCs) is strongly interwoven in the electricity market as the producers of...

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Simultaneous use of black, green, and white certificates systems : a rather messy business

Amundsen, Eirik Schrøder; Bye, Torstein - 2016

We formulate a model with black, green and white certificates markets that function in conjunction with an electricity market. The markets function well in the sense that a common equilibrium solution exist, where all targets are satisfied (e.g. share of green electricity and share of energy...

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The role of venture capital and governments in clean energy: lessons from the first cleantech bubble

Heuvel, Matthias van den; Popp, David - 2022

After a boom and bust cycle in the early 2010s, venture capital (VC) investments are, once again, flowing towards green businesses. In this paper, we use Crunchbase data on 150,000 US startups founded between 2000 and 2020 to better understand why VC initially did not prove successful in funding...

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Closing wells : fossil exploration and abandonment in the energy transition

Van den Bijgaart, I. M.; Rodríguez Acosta, Mauricio Andrés - 2020

Despite ambitious climate goals and already substantial stocks of developed fossil energy reserves, development of new fossil energy reserves continues to be high. This raises concerns, as it reinforces the fossil industry’s opportunities and incentives to continue extraction, and may...

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