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Making Carbon Taxation a Generational Win Win

Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - 2019

Carbon taxation has been studied primarily in social planner or infinitely lived agent models, which trade off the welfare of future and current generations. Such frameworks obscure the potential for carbon taxation to produce a generational win-win. This paper develops a large-scale, dynamic...

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Federal Tax Policy Towards Energy

Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2007

incentives. In particular, I make a rough calculation of the impact of tax incentives for domestic oil production on world oil … supply and prices and find that the incentives for domestic production have negligible impact on world supply or prices … despite the United States being the third largest oil producing country in the world. Finally, I present results from a model …

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Energy Policy with Externalities and Internalities

Allcott, Hunt - 2013

We analyze optimal policy when consumers of energy-using durables undervalue energy costs relative to their private optima. First, there is an Internality Dividend from Externality Taxes: aside from reducing externalities, they also offset distortions from underinvestment in energy efficiency....

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Renewable Energy Policies and Technological Innovation : Evidence Based on Patent Counts

Johnstone, Nick - 2013

This paper examines the effect of environmental policies on technological innovation in the specific case of renewable energy. The analysis is conducted using patent data on a panel of 25 countries over the period 1978-2003. It is found that public policy plays a significant role in determining...

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Buffering Volatility : A Study on the Limits of Germany's Energy Revolution

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2016

Squaring hourly demand and wind-solar production data for Germany and a number of neighbouring countries with the results of the EU's ESTORAGE project, this paper studies the limits of Germany's energy revolution in view of the volatility of wind and solar power. In addition to pumped storage,...

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Prospects for Nuclear Power

Davis, Lucas W. - 2011

The prospects for a revival of nuclear power were dim even before the partial reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear plant. Nuclear power has long been controversial because of concerns about nuclear accidents, proliferation risk, and the storage of spent fuel. These concerns are real and...

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Risk Premia in Crude Oil Futures Prices

Hamilton, James D. - 2013

If commercial producers or financial investors use futures contracts to hedge against commodity price risk, the arbitrageurs who take the other side of the contracts may receive compensation for their assumption of nondiversifiable risk in the form of positive expected returns from their...

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Crude Oil Price Differentials and Pipeline Infrastructure

McRae, Shaun - 2018

Crude oil production in the United States increased by nearly 80 percent between 2008 and 2016, mostly in areas that were far from existing refining and pipeline infrastructure. The production increase led to substantial discounts for oil producers to reflect the high cost of alternative...

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The External Costs of Transporting Petroleum Products by Pipelines and Rail : Evidence from Shipments of Crude Oil from North Dakota

Clay, Karen - 2017

petroleum products by rail and pipelines. While crude oil transportation has generated intense policy debate about rail and …

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The Private and Public Economics of Renewable Electricity Generation

Borenstein, Severin - 2011

Generating electricity from renewable sources is more expensive than conventional approaches, but reduces pollution externalities. Analyzing the tradeoff is much more challenging than often presumed, because the value of electricity is extremely dependent on the time and location at which it is...

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