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Efficiency and environmental impacts of electricity restructuring on coal-fired power plants
Chan, H. Ron; Fell, Harrison; Lange, Ian; Li, Shanjun - 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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Is favoritism a threat to Chinese aid effectiveness? : A subnational analysis of Chinese development projects
Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Hodler, Roland; Parks, Bradley - 2019
Chinese aid comes with few strings attached, allowing recipient country leaders to use it for domestic political purposes. The vulnerability of Chinese aid to political capture has prompted speculation that it may be economically ineffective, or even harmful. We test these claims by estimating...
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Is the electricity sector a weak link in development?
Colmer, Jonathan; Lagakos, David; Shu, Martin - 2023
This paper asks whether increasing productivity in the electricity sector can yield larger long-run GDP gains than suggested by electricity's small share of aggregate economic activity. We answer this question using a dynamic model in which electricity is a strong complement to other inputs in...
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Pollution and city size : can cities be too small?
Borck, Rainald; Tabuchi, Takatoshi - 2016
We study the optimal and equilibrium size of cities in a city system model with environmental pollution. Pollution is …, if pollution is local or per capita pollution increases with population, we find that equilibrium cities are too large …. When pollution is global and per capita pollution declines with city size, however, equilibrium cities may be too small …
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Corrective taxation for curbing pollution and promoting green product design and recycling
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 2000
which exhibits distortions due to pollution, external landfilling costs and inefficient product design. The allocative …
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Smart cap
Karp, Larry S.; Traeger, Christian - 2021
We introduce a "smart" cap and trade system that eliminates the welfare costs of asymmetric information (“uncertainty”). This cap responds endogenously to technology or macroeconomic shocks, relying on the market price of certificates to aggregate information. It allows policy makers to...
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COVID-19 mortality and contemporaneous air pollution
Austin, Wes; Carattini, Stefano; Gomez Mahecha, John; … - 2020
robust to a host of sensitivity tests. These results suggest that air pollution plays an important role in mediating the …
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Public transport and urban pollution
Borck, Rainald - 2017
The paper studies the effect of public transport policies on urban pollution. It uses a quantitative equilibrium model … with residential choice and mode choice. Pollution comes from commuting and residential energy use. The model parameters … transport coupled with increasing transit speed affects the equilibrium. In the baseline simulation, total pollution falls by 0 …
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Petchey's (2015) extension of oates & Schwab's (1988) efficiency result revisited
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 2017
Oates and Schwab (1988) consider an economy with mobil capital and jurisdictions that suffer from local pollution. They …
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Optimal stabilization in an emission permits market
Gerlagh, Reyer; Wan, Roweno J.R.K - 2018
We develop a 2-period emission trading model for a stock pollutant with demand shocks resolving over time. We find precise conditions for efficiency of a stabilization mechanism where cumulative available permits decrease with excess supply in early periods. Our model describes the stabilization...
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