Future energy demand will be affected by changes in prices and income, but also by other factors, like temperature … annual regional demand for energy goods. Combining estimates of temperature elasticities with scenarios of future climate … change, it is possible to assess variations in energy demand induced (directly) by the global warming. We use this …

technology regime based on renewable energy sources. Two bodies of research, the quasi-evolutionary (QE) model and the multi … development of the technology, institutions, and the industry. However, I also find that the diffusion of the automobile is not …

of energy-using consumer durables, augmenting the hypothesis to allow for the influence of government regulations. For … the products we explored, the evidence suggests: (i) the rate of overall innovation was independent of energy prices and … regulations, (ii) the direction of innovation was responsive to energy price changes for some products but not for others, (iii …

schedule) and a business energy investment tax credit (ITC). Since the signing of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct) on …

We study a simplification of a previously proposed model of technology evolution to understand the behavior of … performance curves, which describe how a technology improves with increasing cumulative production. The model decomposes a … technology or production process into components that get cheaper as new implementations of them are discovered. We show that the …