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This dissertation consists of three essays pertaining to the causes of the levels and composition of the international trade flows of nations, and the consequential implications for the levels of per capita income and welfare of their populations. The first of these documents a pattern of...
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First chapter aims to quantify the role of trade in capital goods incross country income differences. I construct a multi-country general equilibriummodel of trade along the line of Eaton and Kortum (2002) and Alvarezand Lucas (2007) and introduce trade in capital goods and capital...
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`s Office of Domestic and International Policy, examines the impact of Federal and State oil spill legislation on the tanker …
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The Department of Energy study examines the effects of lifting the current prohibitions against the export of Alaskan North Slope (ANS) crude. The study concludes that permitting exports would benefit the US economy. First, lifting the ban would expand the markets in which ANS oil can be sold,...
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forum on the proposed nuclear waste disposal legislation. Nearly one hundred representatives of consumer, public interest … legislation (Senate); status of legislation (House of Representatives); impact on the legislation on electric utilities; impact of … the legislation on consumers; implementing the legislation. All six papers have been abstracted and indexed for the Energy …
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policy. Because of the recent appearance of RECs, legislation and regulation mandating the purchase of renewable energy has …
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three (Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming) now have a mandatory RPS legislation (Utah has a more-voluntary renewable energy goal …
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the legislation, this study was limited to the portions of the electric power industry that make decisions on generating …
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A shock jolted the electric power industry in April 1994, when the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) announced its intention to restructure the industry. The proposal, commonly referred to as retail wheeling, is based on the principle that market deregulation and competition will...
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Geothermal Progress Monitor (GPM) Issue No. 13 documents that most related factors favor the growth and geographic expansion of the US geothermal industry and that the industry is being technologically prepared to meet those challenges into the next century. It is the function of GPM to identify...
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