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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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From Science to Technology : The Value of Knowledge from Different Energy Research Institutions

Popp, David - 2016

Using an original data set of both scientific articles and patents pertaining to alternative energy technologies, this paper provides new evidence on the flows of knowledge between university, private sector, and government research. Better understanding of the value of knowledge from these...

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Cities and the Environment

Kahn, Matthew E. - 2014

. While much of the literature focuses on cities in the developed world, we anticipate that similar issues will be of …

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Did the Death of Distance Hurt Detroit and Help New York?

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2014

communication technology can also increase the returns to new ideas, by allowing those ideas to be used throughout the world. This …

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Does Gentrification Displace Poor Children? New Evidence from New York City Medicaid Data

Dragan, Kacie - 2019

The pace of gentrification has accelerated in cities across the country since 2000, and many observers fear it is displacing low-income populations from their homes and communities. We offer new evidence about the consequences of gentrification on mobility, building and neighborhood conditions,...

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Reducing Crime Through Environmental Design : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment of Street Lighting in New York City

Chalfin, Aaron - 2019

This paper offers experimental evidence that crime can be successfully reduced by changing the situational environment that potential victims and offenders face. We focus on a ubiquitous but surprisingly understudied feature of the urban landscape – street lighting – and report the first...

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Has New York Become Less Competitive in Global Markets? Evaluating Foreign Listing Choices Over Time

Doidge, Craig - 2010

We study the determinants and consequences of cross-listings on the New York and London stock exchanges from 1990 to … 2005. This investigation enables us to evaluate the relative benefits of New York and London exchange listings and to … in London. This decline in cross-listings is explained by changes in firm characteristics rather than by changes in the …

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Do the Young British Artists Rule (or : Has London Stolen the Idea of Postmodern Art from New York?): Evidence from the Auction Market

Galenson, David W. - 2021

London the new center of the advanced art world. As Hirst reaches the age of 40, this paper uses auction results to measure … American artist under 40 has achieved. Whether London can continue its success will depend in part on whether it can match New …

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Did the Renewable Fuel Standard Shift Market Expectations of the Price of Ethanol?

Baumeister, Christiane - 2017

It is commonly believed that the response of the price of corn ethanol (and hence of the price of corn) to shifts in biofuel policies operates in part through market expectations and shifts in storage demand, yet to date it has proved difficult to measure these expectations and to empirically...

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Intermittency and the Value of Renewable Energy

Gowrisankaran, Gautam - 2015

A key problem with solar energy is intermittency: solar generators only produce when the sun is shining. This adds to social costs and also requires electricity system operators to reoptimize key decisions with large-scale renewables. We develop a method to quantify the economic value of...

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