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Enforcement of Vintage Differentiated Regulations:The Case of New Source Review

Bushnell, James B.; Wolfram, Catherine D. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2010

This paper analyzes the eects of the New Source Review (NSR) environmental regula-tions on coal-red electric power plants. Regulations that grew out of the Clean Air Actof 1970 required new electric generating plants to install costly pollution control equipmentbut exempted existing plants....

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Testing Institutional Arrangements Via Agent-BasedModeling: A U.S. Electricity Market Example

Li, Hongyan; Sun, Junjie; Tesfatsion, Leigh - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2010

Many critical goods and services in modern-day economies are producedand distributed through complex institutional arrangements. Agent-based computationaleconomics (ACE) modeling tools are capable of handling this degree of complexity.In concrete support of this claim, this study presents an ACE...

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Analysis of Energy Supply and Usage in the IowaEconomy

Otto, Daniel M.; Imerman, Mark D. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2005

This report addresses the needs of state policymakers to understand the implications to the state’s economy from current levels of energy supply imports. Historical energy consumption patterns for the state and the role of energy in the performance of the Iowa economy are reviewed using...

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Discrimination against Newcomers: Impacts of the GermanEmission Trading Regime on the Electricity Sector

Bode, Sven; Hübl, Lothar; Schaffner, Joey; Twelemann, Sven - Universität <Hannover> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche … - 2005

closer look at the transfer-rule’secological impacts and competitive effects in the field of electricity generation.[...] …

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Risk Premia in Electricity Wholesale Spot Markets– Empirical Evidence from Germany

Pietz, Matthäus - Center for Entrepreneurial and Financial Studies <München> - 2009

This paper contributes to the ongoing discussion on price formation in electricity markets. For this, we conduct an … analysis of the German electricity wholesale spot market which is located at the European Energy Exchange (EEX). Our dataset … ranges from August 2002 to May 2009. As results we find significant positive risk premia, both in the block contract market …

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Risk Premia in the German ElectricityFutures Market

Pietz, Matthäus - Center for Entrepreneurial and Financial Studies <München> - 2009

The mechanism behind price formation in electricity futures markets is still under discussion. Theory suggests that … hedging pressure caused by deviating risk preferences is the most promising approach. This paper contributes to this … discussion through an empirical investigation of electricity futures for delivery in Germany traded at the European Energy …

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