Decarbonization of the electricity sector, and expanding it to facilitate decarbonization of transportation, heating, and other energy applications primarily using fossil fuels, is an important step in mitigating climate change. A widely advocated step in that direction is long-term planning to...

Household air pollution from biomass cooking is the most significant environmentalhealth risk in the Global South. Interventions to address this risk mostly promoteless-polluting stoves and clean fuels, but their diffusion proves difficult. This paperassesses the potentially complementary role...

Technology policy is the most widespread form of climate policy and is often preferred over seemingly efficient carbon pricing. We propose a new explanation for this observation: gains that predominantly accrue to households with large capital assets and that influence majority decisions in...

Power-to-gas (PtG), a technology that converts electricity into hydrogen, is expected to become a core component of future low-carbon energy systems. While its economics and performance as a sector coupling technique have been well studied in the context of perfectly competitive energy markets,...

The building sector offers an important lever for reducing carbon emissions, and carbon pricing is considered as one essential policy instrument to unleash this potential. Yet, carbon pricing in residential buildings faces challenges, especially in rental housing since the financial burden and...

This article investigates a bracketing property that purports to yield upper- and lower bounds on the treatment effects obtained from a fixed effects- and lagged dependent variable model. With reference to both analytical results and a Monte Carlo simulation, we explore the conditions under...

Substantial inequalities in people's carbon emissions have been highlighted in recent years. Given the diversity of people's energy needs and extant gaps in access to low-carbon energy, a fair emissions benchmark is not equal CO2 emissions for all but the CO2 emissions needed for fulfilling a...

Previous research shows that humans display complexity aversion. In this article, we test for the presence of complexity aversion and its determinants in the context of voluntary climate action, where individual choices interact with the complex regulatory framework of the EU Emission Trading...

We develop analytical models to investigate the economic behavior of consumers and firms, and apply them to conduct welfare analyses of environmental pricing schemes. We find that consumers tend to exert less effort than what firms aim to induce, with the social optimum located between them. In...

Hydrogen produced from renewable energy and other carbon-neutral sources has the potential of becoming an important medium for storing and transporting energy, partially taking on the role that fossil fuels play to date. We develop a novel theoretical and empirical model of sequential trade...