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Building Energy Retrofit Hurdle Rates and Risk Arbitrage in Energy Efficiency Investments
Lai, Yuan - 2020
Despite extensive empirical evidence of the economic and financial benefits of green buildings, energy retrofit investments in existing buildings have not reached widespread adoption.This paper empirically estimate returns to energy retrofit investments for multifamily and commercial buildings...
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Levelling the Playing Field : On the Missing Role of Network Externality in Designing Renewable Energy Technology Deployment Policies
Jin, Wei - 2015
In creating a level playing field that facilitates the deployment of renewable energy technology (RET), the traditional energy policy regime based on eliminating RET's cost gaps versus fossil energy technology (FET) may be not sufficient. Building on an economic model of energy technology...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016440
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Energy and Environment Problems in the Western Balkans : An Overview of the Ebrd's Response
Bouzarovski, Stefan - 2014
This paper examines the relationship between the EBRD's project portfolio in the Western Balkan energy sector, and the region's main energy and environment problems. It argues in favour of geographically centered appraisals of the environmental sustainability of multilateral energy investment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012752594
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Product Homogeneity, Knowledge Spillovers, and Innovation : Why Energy Sector is Perplexed by a Slow Pace of Technological Progress
Jin, Wei - 2016
There is a growing body of literature mentioning the slow pace of energy technological progress as compared to other technologies like information technology (IT), but the reasons why energy sector is perplexed by slow innovation remain unexplained. Based on a variety-expanding endogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997624
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The Role of Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions in Energy Security
Wu, Ning - 2012
In recent years, national and global energy security has become a key political and economic issue, and the players in this global energy game are also diversified. Corresponding to the diversified sectors and multiple components, energy security can be studied from a number of perspectives. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014162651
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What Does Europe Pay for Clean Energy? Review of Macroeconomic Simulation Studies
Dannenberg, Astrid; Mennel, Tim; Moslener, Ulf - 2015
This paper analyses the macroeconomic costs of environmental regulation in European energy markets on the basis of existing macroeconomic simulation studies. The analysis comprises the European emission trading scheme, energy taxes, measures in the transport sector, and the promotion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014051963
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Activating Korea's Hydrogen Energy Industry
Hur, Sun Kyung - 2022
The world's major countries are aggressively preparing national strategic countermeasures in response to climate change, the fourth industrial revolution and tightening environmental regulations.Korea is also preparing for the new energy paradigm in earnest. The government is working on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014264512
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Bedeutung der Energiewirtschaft für die Volkswirtschaft : Studie im Auftrag der RWE AG
Albrecht, Jutta; Gronwald, Marc; Karl, Hans-Dieter; … - 2011
von Energie und damit die Bedeutung einer effizienten Energiewirtschaft evident sind, ist es schwierig, ihre … gesamtwirtschaftliche Bedeutung angemessen zu bewerten. Neben dem Beitrag der Energiewirtschaft zum Bruttoinlandsprodukt kommt ihr … der Innovationskraft der Energiewirtschaft war auch der Vergleich der Situation in Deutschland mit jener in ausgewählten …
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China's foreign oil policy : genesis, deployment and selected effects
Christie, Edward Hunter; Francois, Joseph F.; Urban, … - 2010
China is a rising global power with a growing role and impact on the world's energy markets as well as on the Earth's climate system. China pursues its development in an essentially non-confrontational manner, a vision encapsulated by the notion of peaceful rise which is viewed positively in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392322
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Energy efficiency policy with price-quality discrimination
Nauleau, Marie-Laure; Giraudet, Louis-Gaëtan; Quirion, … - 2015
We compare a range of energy efficiency policies in a durable good market subject to both energy-use externalities and price-quality discrimination by a monopolist. We find that the social optimum can be achieved with differentiated subsidies. With ad valorem subsidies, the subsidization of the...
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