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This article introduces and overviews U.S. renewable energy policy. It describes the shape, content, and contours of that policy, including its emphases and functions in both the electricity and transportation sectors of the U.S. economy. To do so, the article builds a conceptual model that can...
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Climate regulation of the electricity sector is one of the most important growing — and rapidly changing — areas of law and policy today. This is both because of the critical role that electricity plays in modern society, acting as economic lifeblood, and because of electricity's part in...
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Deemed as the “world’s most important chokepoint” for oil and international shipping, the Strait of Hormuz is the main thoroughfare to and from the Arabian/Persian Gulf. A disruption in shipping through the Strait of Hormuz would have severe consequences for the world economy. Without...
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In this article, the long-lasting effects of the 2007-2008 global economic crises on the economy of the United States and Europe have been investigated and presented separately. In these economies, the permanence of this effect is given. Similar and different aspects are explained in terms of...
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energy price beliefs. By running an artefactual field experiment with a representative sample of 711 participants, we gather …-consistent discounting. Our results further suggest that neither the true marginal electricity price nor the expected marginal electricity … price can predict electricity consumption. Taken together our results raise doubt in the effectiveness of classical price …
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larger effects on sales prices, and that effect holds for both newer and older homes. The estimated home price premiums from …
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natural gas prices, emphasizing energy-specific demand shocks. Mainly, coal prices determine about 73% of gas price …
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Fracking innovations revolutionized the United States oil and gas industry and facilitated a boom in energy production in states with oil and gas resources. This paper examines effects of oil and gas booms within a state on individual employment and earnings. To account for endogenous migration...
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Fracking innovations revolutionized the United States oil and gas industry and facilitated a boom in energy production in states with oil and gas resources. This paper examines effects of oil and gas booms within a state on individual employment and earnings. To account for endogenous migration...
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