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Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2013

Energy security is the ability of households, businesses, and government to accommodate disruptions in supply in energy markets. This survey considers the economic dimensions of energy security, political and other non-economic security concerns and discusses policy approaches that could enhance...

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U.S. Energy Policy During the 1990s

Joskow, Paul L. - 2001

This paper discusses U.S. energy policy and the associated evolution of energy supply, energy demand, energy prices and the industrial organization of the domestic energy industries during the period 1991 through 2000. This period covers the last two years of the George H. W. Bush administration...

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Demand and Pricing in Electricity Markets : Evidence from San Diego During California's Energy Crisis

Reiss, Peter C. - 2003

We study the electricity consumption of San Diego-area households following a series of price changes and related events during California's energy crisis in 2000-01. The analysis uses a five-year panel of disaggregate billing and weather data for a random sample of 70,000 households. In...

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Global Energy Outlook 2015

Newell, Richard G. - 2016

This paper assesses trends in the global energy sector through 2040 by harmonizing multiple projections issued by private, government, and inter-governmental organizations based on methods from "Global Energy Outlooks Comparison: Methods and Challenges" (Newell and Qian 2015). These projections...

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The Global Energy Outlook

Newell, Richard G. - 2013

We explore the principal trends that are shaping the future landscape of energy supply, demand, and trade. We take a long-term view, assessing trends on the time scale of a generation by looking 25 years into the past, taking stock of the current situation, and projecting 25 years into the...

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Federal Tax Policy Towards Energy

Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2006

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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The Supply-Shock Explanation of the Great Stagflation Revisited

Blinder, Alan S. - 2008

well-known "supply-shock" explanation attributes both spikes to large food and energy shocks plus, in the case of 1973 … policy and (b) pointed to the far smaller impacts of more recent oil shocks as evidence against the supply-shock explanation …, and new econometric studies that have accumulated over the past quarter century. We find that the classic supply-shock …

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The Predictive Content of Energy Futures : An Update on Petroleum, Natural Gas, Heating Oil and Gasoline

Chinn, Menzie D. - 2005

This paper examines the relationship between spot and futures prices for energy commodities (crude oil, gasoline, heating oil markets and natural gas). In particular, we examine whether futures prices are (1) an unbiased and/or (2) accurate predictor of subsequent spot prices. We find that while...

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Setting with the Sun : The Impacts of Renewable Energy on Wholesale Power Markets

Bushnell, James B. - 2018

Policies supporting investment in renewable electricity have been a cornerstone of climate policy in many parts of the world. While previous empirical work explores the economic and environmental impacts of renewable production, the focus has exclusively been on the short-run impacts of...

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Sequential Markets, Market Power and Arbitrage

Ito, Koichiro - 2014

We develop a theoretical framework to characterize strategic behavior in sequential markets under imperfect competition and limited arbitrage. Our theory predicts that these two elements can generate a systematic price premium. We test the model predictions using micro-data from the Iberian...

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