externalities …

policies face coordination problems and their effectiveness depends on shocks affecting network externalities. The resulting …

We analyse optimal environmental policies in a market that is vertically differentiated in terms of the energy … efficiency of products. Considering energy taxes, subsidies to firms for investment in more eco-friendly products, and product … policy instruments. Surprisingly, we find that an industry-friendly government levies an energy tax to supplement a lax …

energy technologies, in particular renewable power and energy storage. This paper adopts the classical learning … become the basis for estimating the dynamics of the life-cycle cost of generating the corresponding clean energy, i …. Finally, we argue that the observed learning curves for individual clean energy technologies reinforce each other in advancing …

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) that 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 …