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Blackouts impose substantial economic costs in developing countries. This paper advances a new explanation for their continued prevalence: unlike in high-income countries, where regulatory mandates require utilities to satisfy all electricity demand, utilities in developing countries respond to...
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This paper examines the relationship between spot and futures prices for a broad range of commodities, including energy … and/or (2) accurate predictor of subsequent spot prices. While energy futures prices are generally unbiased predictors of …
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Federal tax policy provides a broad array of incentives for energy investment. I review those policies and construct … estimates of marginal effective tax rates for different energy capital investments as of 2007. Effective tax rates vary widely …
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I use U.S. patent data from 1970 to 1994 to estimate the effect of energy prices on energy-efficient innovations. Using …-side factors, such as scientific advancements that make new innovations possible. I find that both energy prices and the quality of …
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We show that modifying the standard neoclassical growth model by assuming that competition is imperfect makes it easier to explain the size of the declines in output and real wages that follow increases in the price of oil. Plausibly parameterized models of this type are able to mimic the...
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This paper sets out a simple spatial model of energy exploitation to ask how the location and productivity of energy … resources affects the distribution of economic activity across geographic space. By combining elements from energy economics and … economic geography we link the productivity of energy resources to the incentives for economic activity to agglomerate. We find …
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We estimate an aggregate production function with constant elasticity of substitution between energy and a capital …/labor composite using U.S. data. The implied measure of energy-saving technical change appears to respond strongly to the oil … suggestive of a model of directed technical change, with low short-run substitutability between energy and capital/labor but …
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This paper studies the macroeconomic effects of energy price shocks in energy-importing economies using a heterogeneous …-agent New Keynesian model. When MPCs are realistically large and the elasticity of substitution between energy and domestic … goods is realistically low, increases in energy prices depress real incomes and cause a recession, even if the central bank …
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Our new analytical general equilibrium model is used to study effects of tightening state Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) on electricity price, CO2 emissions, fossil fuel electricity generation, and two kinds of renewable generation. We show how those outcomes depend on key state...
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We study a prominent energy regulation affecting large Chinese manufacturers that are part of broader conglomerates … shifted production to unregulated firms in the same conglomerate instead of improving their energy efficiency. Conglomerate … spillovers account for 40% of the output loss of regulated firms and substantially reduce aggregate energy savings. Using a …
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