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Decentralized environmental regulations and plant-level productivity
Ghosal, Vivek; Stephan, Andreas; Weiss, Jan F. - 2018
Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components, related to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011906240
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Averting Enforcement : Strategic Response to the Threat of Environmental Regulation
Keohane, Nathaniel O.; Mansur, Erin T.; Voynov, Andrey - 2009
This paper uses data from the U.S. electric power industry to explore the strategic responses of regulated firms to government enforcement. We focus on the enforcement of New Source Review, a provision of the Clean Air Act that imposes stringent emissions limitations on substantially modified...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014055453
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Environmental regulations and business decisions : environmental regulations impose costs on firms, affecting productivity and location but providing significant health benefits
Gray, Wayne B. - 2015
fraction of a firm's total costs. Productivity tends to fall, and firms may shift new investment and production to locations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433397
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Survey of models on demand, customer base-line and demand response and their relationships in the power market
Heshmati, Almas - 2012
The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated … the growing literature on models used to study demand, consumer baseline (CBL) and demand response in the electricity … case for possible application to the electricity market and discusses the implications of the results. In the literature …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548648
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A profit-maximizing approach for transmission expansion planning using a revenue-cap incentive mechanism
Hesamzadeh, Mohammad Reza; Rosellón, Juan; Gabriel, … - 2015
This paper proposes an incentive mechanism for transmission expansion planning. The mechanism is a bilevel program. The upper level is a profit-maximizing transmission company (Transco) which expands its transmission system while endogenously predicts and influences the generation investment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519927
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Regulation and third party discrimination in vertically related markets : the case of German electricity
Brunekreeft, Gert - 2001 - Revised Version - March 2001
network industries like telecommunications, electricity and railways and has sparked off a controversy in the literature. The …. The insights are applied to the electricity supply industry in Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010492296
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Electricity Market Mergers with Endogenous Forward Contracting
Brown, David - 2016
We analyze the effects of electricity market mergers in an environment where firms endogenously choose their level of … forward contracts prior to competing in the wholesale market. We apply our model to Alberta's wholesale electricity market … in consumer surplus. Current market screening procedures used to analyze electricity mergers consider firms' preexisting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986998
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Can incentives to increase electricity use reduce the cost of integrating renewable resources?
Andersen, Laura Mørch; Gårn Hansen, Lars; Lynge … - 2019
strategy could significantly reduce the cost of increasing the share of greenhouse gas free wind and solar electricity … production in an electricity supply industry. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012132625
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Coase and Cap-and-Trade : Evidence on the Independence Property from the European Carbon Market
Zaklan, Aleksandar - 2021
This paper tests the independence property under the Coase Theorem in a large multinational cap-and-trade scheme for greenhouse gas emissions, the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS). I analyze whether emissions of power producers regulated under the EU ETS are independent from allowance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013250786
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Coase and cap-and-trade : evidence on the independence property from the European carbon market
Zaklan, Aleksandar - 2021 - Updated version of DP 1850
This paper tests the independence property under the Coase Theorem in a large multinational cap-and-trade scheme for greenhouse gas emissions, the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS). I analyze whether emissions of power producers regulated under the EU ETS are independent from allowance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012406224