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Oil and gas lease negotiations provide mineral owners the opportunity to negotiate for both compensation and auxiliary … indicate that oil and gas firms simultaneously make concessions by raising compensation and approving clauses, but these …
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We investigate the short- and long-term effects of a natural gas boom in an economy where energy can be produced with coal, natural gas, or clean sources and the direction of technology is endogenous. In the short run, a natural gas boom reduces carbon emissions by inducing substitution away...
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Both energy and the environment are inputs into production, influencing the economy and the overall welfare of the population. While the economy itself has been a central focus of economic history from its inception, energy and the environment have received more limited attention. On the energy...
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While carbon pricing, in general, and carbon taxes, in particular, are popular with economists, they are subject to considerable misunderstanding among policy makers and the public. In this paper I consider and refute five myths about carbon taxes: 1) that a carbon price will hurt economic...
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We evaluate distributional and efficiency consequences of the bulk power clean electricity tax credits authorized by the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. To do so, we link detailed electricity capacity expansion, computable general equilibrium, data-rich microsimulation, and air pollution models to...
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impacts of conventional and unconventional forms of oil and gas development (OGD) given its long history of conventional OGD …
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This paper analyzes whether the propensity to secede by subnational regions responds mostly to differences in income per capita or to distinct identities. We explore this question in a quantitative political economy model where people's willingness to finance a public good depends on their...
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This paper explores the connections between the shift of world saving toward OPEC and the changing structure of U ….S. trade with the non-oil developing countries. The basic point of the paper is that during the 1970s the U.S. economy has … of world saving toward OPEC in the 1970s effectively internationalized the supply of saving, as OPEC places its surplus …
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-cost production units, conditional on a fixed aggregate quantity. We rely on rich micro-data covering the global market for crude oil …, from 1970 to 2014, to quantify the extent of productive misallocation attributable to market power exerted by the OPEC. We …
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We use a new micro data set to estimate a stochastic industry-equilibrium model of the oil industry. This effort is a … first step towards studying the importance of ongoing structural changes in the oil market in a general-equilibrium model of … the world economy. We analyze the impact of the advent of fracking on the volatility of oil prices. Our model predicts a …
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