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In recent years, sustainability has represented one of the most important policy goals explored in the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) literature. But related hypotheses, performance measures and results continue to present a challenge. The present paper contributes to this ongoing literature...
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We study the impact of learning by doing, learning spill-overs, and imperfect competition in a model with two types of electricity producers, an oligopolistic sector of polluting fossil-fuel utilities and a competitive fringe of non-polluting generators of electricity from renewable energy...
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We study (energy) markets with dirty incumbents and costly entry by clean producers. For intermediate entry costs, the … market outcome exhibits inefficient production and inefficient entry. A policy mix of three popular regulatory instruments … — taxation on polluters, feed-in tariffs for clean entrants, and taxation of consumption — cannot correct these two market …
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We study the impact of economic policy on the importance of history and expectations for the macroeconomic performance of an economy. In our model the energy mix is based on the conversion of heterogeneous energy sources. Markups over marginal costs are endogenous so that the marginal revenue...
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Economic theory suggests that with a pollution externality and learning spillovers related to renewable energy …
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