The stylized model presented in this paper extends the approach developed by Fischer and Newell (2008) by analysing the optimal policy design in a context with more than one externality while taking explicitly into account uncertainty surrounding future emission damage costs. In the presence of...

The objective of the study is to examine the relationship between macroeconomic factors (i.e., population growth; urbanization, industrialization, exchange rate, price level, food production index and live stock production index) and renewable energy in Pakistan over a period of 1975-2012. In...

Providing electricity to regional and remote communities is challenging and expensive. Uniform tariff policies result in subsidised electricity costs for consumers in high cost regional areas. Prices have a dual role of incentivising efficient use of resources and distributing income. These dual...

Much attention in recent years has turned to the potential of behavioural insights to improve the performance of government policy. One behavioural concept of interest is the effect of a cash transfer label on how the transfer is spent. The Winter Fuel Payment (WFP) is a labelled cash transfer...

This article studies role of cooperations in creating opportunities for using rich renewable energy sources and also their potential role for entrepreneurship and employment in Iran. The presence of constant, sustainable and economical energy is an essential basis for any economical and social...

The paper considers the transition of an economy from non-renewable to renewable energy. The Hotelling theorem suggests to extract a non-renewable resource in an optimal way such that the resource tends to be depleted when optimally extracted. Yet,it might not be reasonable to deplete...

The world today is facing the worst economic and environmental crises in generations. Hence, we need policies that can stimulate recovery and at the same time reach the sustainability. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP et al., 2008; UNEP, 2009a, 2009b, 2011) and many economists (e.g.,...

This study investigates the public policy in the field of renewable energy and explores how can practically be involved the local public administration in renewable energy projects’ implementation. Hence, the public policy in the field of renewable energy is disclosed, and the partnership...

This study investigates the role of the state in the field of renewable energy with an eye to reveal a change of paradigm, in the sense that this role is nowadays reconsidered and intensified. Therefore, this study reveals firstly some issues regarding research and development services in the...

The world in which we live in is changing. We got used to cheap and abundant energy resources, we developed a way of life that is based on massive energy consumption and that is about to finish. Our primary energy sources are about to end, and to maintain our development and our comfortable...