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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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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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Setting with the Sun : The Impacts of Renewable Energy on Wholesale Power Markets
Bushnell, James - 2018
world. While previous empirical work explores the economic and environmental impacts of renewable production, the focus has …
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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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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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Coco Issuance and Bank Fragility
Avdjiev, Stefan - 2017
first comprehensive empirical analysis of bank CoCo issues, a market segment that comprises over 730 instruments totaling …
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Systemic Risks in Global Banking : What Available Data Can Tell Us and What More Data are Needed?
Cerutti, Eugenio - 2012
The recent financial crisis has shown how interconnected the financial world has become. Shocks in one location or … asset class can have a sizable impact on the stability of institutions and markets around the world. But systemic risk … closing data gaps include the G20 Data Gaps Initiative, which recommends the collection of consistent bank-level data for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098136
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How Country and Safety-Net Characteristics Affect Bank Risk-Shifting
Kane, Edward J. - 2002
paper seeks to measure and compare how well authorities in 56 countries controlled bank risk shifting during the 1990s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012787065
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Banks and Derivatives
Gorton, Gary B.; Rosen, Richard J. - 2021
concentration of activity in a small number of firms, has substantially increased the risk of collapse of the world banking system …
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