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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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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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Implications for Energy Innovation from the chemical industry

Arora, Ashish - 2010

The history of innovation in the chemical industry offers many insights for accelerating energy innovation. In this chapter, we begin by laying out the early history of the chemical industry for an overview of the role innovation has played in its development. We then explore three noteworthy...

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Energy Policy with Externalities and Internalities

Allcott, Hunt - 2012

We analyze optimal policy when consumers of energy-using durables undervalue energy costs relative to their private optima. First, there is an Internality Dividend from Externality Taxes: aside from reducing externalities, they also offset distortions from underinvestment in energy efficiency....

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Federal Tax Policy Towards Energy

Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2006

incentives. In particular, I make a rough calculation of the impact of tax incentives for domestic oil production on world oil … supply and prices and find that the incentives for domestic production have negligible impact on world supply or prices … despite the United States being the third largest oil producing country in the world. Finally, I present results from a model …

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The US as the "Demander of Last Resort" and its Implications on China's Current Account

Aizenman, Joshua - 2008

This paper evaluates the degree to which current account patterns are explained by the variables suggested by the literature, and reflects on possible future patterns. We start with panel regressions explaining the current account of 69 countries during 1981-2006. We identify an asymmetric...

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Estimating the Social Cost of Carbon for Use in U.S. Federal Rulemakings : A Summary and Interpretation

Greenstone, Michael - 2011

The United States Government recently concluded a year-long process to develop a range of values representing the monetized damages associated with an incremental increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, commonly referred to as the social cost of carbon (SCC). These values are currently used...

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What Determines Effectiveness of Renewable Energy Standards? General Equilibrium Analytical Model and Empirical Analysis

Fullerton, Don; Ta, Chi L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

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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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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