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Competition and regulation as a means of reducing CO2 emissions : experience from U.S. fossil fuel power plants
Growitsch, Christian; Paulus, Simon; Wetzel, Heike - 2017
Levels of CO2 emissions from electricity generation in the U.S. have changed considerably in the last decade. This development can be attributed to two factors. First, the shale gas revolution has reduced gas prices significantly, leading to a crowding out of the more CO2-intensive coal for...
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Competition and regulation as a means of reducing CO2 emissions : experience from U.S. fossil fuel power plants
Growitsch, Christian; Paulus, Simon; Wetzel, Heike - 2016
Levels of CO2 emissions from electricity generation in the U.S. have changed considerably in the last decade. This development can be attributed to two factors. First, the shale gas revolution has reduced gas prices significantly, leading to a crowding out of the more CO2-intensive coal for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595798
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Controlling for environmental conditions in regulatory benchmarking
Heesche, Emil; Asmild, Mette - 2020
Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is often used by regulators to create a pseudo-competitive environment for sectors with … unconventional approaches, which furthermore are not easily changed. In this paper, we discuss the model used for DEA-based benchmark … that only those companies that in the DEA assign weights to those output measures adjusted for environmental conditions …
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On backstops and boomerangs : environmental R&D under technological uncertainty
Goeschl, Timo; Perino, Grischa - 2007
The literature on environmental R&D frequently studies innovation as a two-stage process, with a single R&D event leading from a conventional polluting technology to a perfectly clean backstop. We allow for uncertainty in innovation in that the new technology may turn out to generate a new...
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Optimal climate policy as if the transition matters
Campiglio, Emanuele; Dietz, Simon; Venmans, Frank - 2022
The optimal transition to a low-carbon economy must account for adjustment costs in switching from dirty to clean capital, technological progress, and economic and climatic shocks. We study the low-carbon transition using a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with emissions abatement...
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Essays on energy efficiency, environmental regulation and labor demand in Swedish industry
Amjadi Torshizi, Golnaz - 2020
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Prevention or cure? : abatement efficiency in a network technology
Bostian, Moriah; Färe, Rolf; Grosskopf, Shawna; … - 2019
We develop a network technology model for pollution abatement that distinguishes between the two primary forms that abatement can take: Prevention of emissions from occurring in the first place, and treatment of any emissions that are generated by the production process. Our network model...
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Differential impact of environmental policy instruments on technological change : a review of the empirical literature
Vollebergh, Herman R. J. - 2007
This survey reviews the empirical literature on the impact of environmental policy instruments on the rate and direction of technological change. The survey is explicitly focused on the empirical identification of the hypothesis to expect a stronger impact from market-based incentives than from...
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Environmental innovation in Germany
Hašc̆ic̆, Ivan - 2012
This paper reviews the recent experience of Germany in encouraging innovation to reduce negative environmental impacts of economic activity. The essence of the German approach to policy-induced environmental innovation is discussed in the context of changing policy objectives, and illustrated...
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Policy-induced environmental technology and inventive efforts : is there a crowding out? ; conference paper
Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha - 2013 - This version, January 2013
Significant policy effort is devoted to stimulate the development, adoption and diffusion of environmental-friendly technology. Sceptics worry about the effects of regulation-induced environmental technology on firms competitiveness. Since innovation is a crucial productivity driver, a potential...
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