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Understanding Cross-National Trends in High-Tech Renewable Power Equipment Exports to the United States
Sawhney, Aparna - 2011
We track US imports of advanced technology wind and solar power-generation equipment from a panel of countries during 1989-2010, and examine the determining factors including sector-specific US FDI outflow, country size, and domestic wind and solar power generation. Differentiating between the...
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Is There an Energy Efficiency Gap?
Allcott, Hunt - 2014
Many analysts have argued that energy efficiency investments offer an enormous "win-win" opportunity to both reduce negative externalities and save money. This overview paper presents a simple model of investment in energy-using capital stock with two types of market failures: first,...
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Should We Give Up after Solyndra? Optimal Technology R&D Portfolios Under Uncertainty
Webster, Mort - 2015
Global climate change and other environmental challenges require the development of new energy technologies with lower emissions. In the near-term, R&D investments, either by government or the private sector, can bring down the costs of these lower emission technologies. However, the results of...
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An Assessment of the Energy-Efficiency Gap and its Implications for Climate-Change Policy
Gerarden, Todd - 2015
Improving end-use energy efficiency—that is, the energy-efficiency of individuals, households, and firms as they consume energy—is often cited as an important element in efforts to reduce greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. Arguments for improving energy efficiency usually rely on the idea that...
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Assessing the Energy-Efficiency Gap
Gerarden, Todd - 2015
Energy-efficient technologies offer considerable promise for reducing the financial costs and environmental damages associated with energy use, but these technologies appear not to be adopted by consumers and businesses to the degree that would apparently be justified, even on a purely financial...
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Transition to Clean Technology
Acemoglu, Daron - 2015
We develop a microeconomic model of endogenous growth where clean and dirty technologies compete in production and innovation—in the sense that research can be directed to either clean or dirty technologies. If dirty technologies are more advanced to start with, the potential transition to...
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A Gains from Trade Perspective on Macroeconomic Fluctuations
Beaudry, Paul - 2011
Business cycles reflect changes over time in the amount of trade between individuals. In this paper we show that … incorporating explicitly intra-temporal gains from trade between individuals into a macroeconomic model can provide new insight into … "gains from trade" approach can easily explain why changes in perceptions about the future (including "news" about the future …
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Skill Acquisition, Credit Constraints, and Trade
Chesnokova, Tatyana - 2006
wealth. We use a two factor general equilibrium model and assume credit markets are absent. We explore the effects of trade … that developed countries need to ensure access to education when liberalizing trade to ensure they reap the potential gains … from trade …
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Execution Risk
Engle, Robert F. - 2010
execution and the risk is a result of price movements during a more gradual trading. The paper shows that the trade-off between …
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Productivity Measurement for a Distribution Firm
Diewert, W. Erwin - 2010
The paper derives a consistent accounting framework for the treatment of inventories when measuring the productivity of a distribution firm. The average purchase price of an inventory item during an accounting period must be distinguished from its average selling price and these two average...
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