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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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Federal Tax Policy Towards Energy
Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2007
On Aug. 8, 2005, President Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (PL 109-58). This was the first major piece of energy legislation enacted since 1992 following five years of Congressional efforts to pass energy legislation. Among other things, the law contains tax incentives worth over $14...
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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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Level Versus Equivalent Intensity Carbon Mitigation Commitments
Tian, Huifang - 2014
Large population / rapidly growing economies such as China and India have argued that in the upcoming UNFCCC …
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Mughal Decline, Climate Change, and Britain'S Industrial Ascent : An Integrated Perspective on India'S 18th and 19th Century Deindustrialization
Clingingsmith, David; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021
India was a major player in the world export market for textiles in the early 18th century, but by the middle of the 19 …th century it had lost all of its export market and much of its domestic market. India underwent secular … deindustrialization as a consequence. While India produced about 25 percent of world industrial output in 1750, this figure had fallen to …
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The Private and External Costs of Germany's Nuclear Phase-Out
Jarvis, Stephen - 2019
Many countries have phased out nuclear electricity production in response to concerns about nuclear waste and the risk of nuclear accidents. This paper examines the impact of the shutdown of roughly half of the nuclear production capacity in Germany after the Fukushima accident in 2011. We use...
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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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Understanding Cross-National Trends in High-Tech Renewable Power Equipment Exports to the United States
Sawhney, Aparna - 2011
China and India. US FDI is found to play a significant positive role in the exports of high-tech equipment from both rich …
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The Economics of Renewable Energy
Heal, Geoffrey M. - 2010
Greater use of renewable energy is seen as a key component of any move to combat climate change, and is being aggressively promoted as such by the new U.S. administration and by other governments. Yet there is little economic analysis of renewable energy. This paper surveys what is written and...
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Technological Spillover Effects of State Renewable Energy Policy : Evidence from Patent Counts
Fu, Wancong - 2018
We examine the effect of in-state and out-of-state renewable energy policies on wind energy patenting. Using a semiparametric fixed-effects Tobit model, we regress patent counts on a series of policy variables within a state and a spatially weighted average for each of these policies implemented...
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