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Kaul, Ashok; Pfeifer, Gregor; Witte, Stefan - 2012

focus is on the incidence of the subsidy, i.e., we ask how much of the € 2,500 buyer subsidy is captured by the supply … subsidy amount. However, the incidence was heterogeneous across price segments. Subsidized buyers of cheap cars paid more than … comparable buyers who did not receive the subsidy, e.g. for cars of € 12,000 car dealers reaped about 8% of the scrappage prime …

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The effect of vehicle fuel economy standards on technology adoption

Klier, Thomas; Linn, Joshua - 2014

Many countries are tightening passenger vehicle fuel economy standards. The literature on passenger vehicle standards has used structural models to estimate their welfare effects. This paper provides the first empirical evidence on the effects of recently tightened fuel economy standards on...

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Environmental policy under ambiguity

Vinokur, Leon - 2009

The aim of this paper is to extend existing literature on carbon allowance allocation, investigating the impact of uncertainty and ambiguity, due to the lack of future Environmental policy, on the total production in the market. Specifically, we show that an increase in uncertainty has no effect...

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Trade in Energy Services: GATS and India

Mukherjee, Arpita; Goswami, Ramneet - 2009

Energy plays a vital role in the development of any economy and given its unequal distribution trade in energy, especially fossil fuels, is an important component of international trade. In the past, due to its public good characteristics, energy-related services were mostly supplied by the...

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Actors, Decision-making, and Institutions in Quantitative System Modelling

De Cian, Enrica; Dasgupta, Shouro; Hof, Andries F.; van … - 2017

Increasing the realism with respect to the representation of actors, decision-making, and institutions is critical to better understand the transition towards a low-carbon sustainable society since actors, decision-making, and institutions are the defining elements of transition pathways. In...

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It’s So Hot in Here: Information Avoidance, Moral Wiggle Room, and High Air Conditioning Usage

d’Adda, Giovanna; Gao, Yu; Golman, Russell; Tavoni, … - 2018

Environmental policies based on information provision are widespread, but have often proven ineffective. One possible explanation for information’s low effectiveness is that people actively avoid it. We conduct an online field experiment on air conditioning usage to test the theory of moral...

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Internal and External Barriers to Energy Efficiency: Made-to-Measure Policy Interventions

Cattaneo, Cristina - 2018

This paper has two objectives. First it provides a correlation between internal and external barriers to energy efficiency and consumer behaviour related to two domains. It evaluates behaviour related to energy curtailment, which represents routine, repetitive effort to decrease consumption on a...

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M-LED: Multi-sectoral Latent Electricity Demand Assessment for Energy Access Planning

Falchetta, Giacomo; Stevanato, Nicolò; Moner-Girona, Magda - 2020

Globally about 800 million people live without electricity at home, over two thirds of which are in sub-Saharan Africa. Ending energy poverty is a key development priority because energy plays an enabling role for human wellbeing and economic activities. Planning electricity access...

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Covid-19 e didattica a distanza.Il caso Basilicata, una regione a rischio digital divide

De Filippo, Marcella; Percoco, Annalisa; Voce, Angela - 2020

This paper presents the implications that Covid-19 has had on educational systems as a result of the application of social distancing measures imposed on people by the governments of each individual country. The lockdown has accelerated digitalization but has also shown the internal weaknesses...

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How does Climate Change Affect the Transition of Power Systems: the Case of Germany

Golub, Alexander; Govorukha, Kristina; Mayer, Philip; … - 2020

The effects of extreme weather events, such as heat waves and droughts are taken into account in both global and European policies. Accordingly, the protection of critical infrastructures and in particular, the resilience of the energy sector was the subject of intense research. There are...

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