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This paper proposes a simple two-step estimation method (Climate Adaptive Response Estimation - CARE) to estimate …
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This paper examines how much carbon emissions from the electricity industry would decrease in response to a carbon price. We show how both carbon prices and cheap natural gas reduce, in a nearly identical manner, the historic cost advantage of coal-fired power plants. The shale revolution has...
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We examine the bidding behavior of firms competing on ERCOT, the hourly electricity balancing market in Texas. We characterize an equilibrium model of bidding into this uniform-price divisible-good auction market. Using detailed firm-level data on bids and marginal costs of generation, we find...
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Estimating market power is often complicated by the lack of reliable measures of marginal cost. Instead, policy-makers often rely on other summary statistics of the market, thought to be correlated with price cost margins---such as concentration ratios or the HHI. In many industries, these...
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Adoption of real-time electricity pricing %u2014 retail prices that vary hourly to reflect changing wholesale prices %u2014 removes existing cross-subsidies to those customers that consume disproportionately more when wholesale prices are highest. If their losses are substantial, these customers...
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This paper presents several techniques for recovering cost function estimates for electricity generation from a model of optimal bidding behavior in a competitive electricity market. Two techniques are developed based on different models of the price-setting process in a competitive electricity...
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adjustment costs can cause a mean-preserving increase in unemployment risk to lead to increased consumption. The predictions of … risk as their unemployment shocks are more highly correlated. Such couples spend more on owner-occupied housing than other … higher moving costs, or when unemployment insurance provides a less generous safety net …
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the minimum wage on teenage unemployment, or its relative impact on black and white teenagers. The purpose of this paper … unemployment rates of teenagers, we explore several related issues: the relative importance of changing the level and coverage of …
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It is well known that unemployment benefits raise unemployment durations. This result has traditionally been … hazard. This paper questions this interpretation by showing that unemployment benefits can also affect durations through an … proxies such as asset holdings. I find that increases in unemployment benefits have small effects on durations in the …
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previous employer, causing firms to discriminate in monitoring. We confirm the model's prediction that the unemployment hazard … longer unemployment durations for blacks, are known to be strongly empirically supported.Institutional subscribers to the …
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