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From Fossil Fuels to Renewables: The Role of Electricity Storage

Lazkano, Itziar; Nøstbakken, Linda; Pelli, Martino - 2016

, we empirically analyze the determinants of innovation in electricity generation, and the role of storage in directing … innovation. Our results show that electricity storage increases innovation not only in renewables but also in conventional … technologies. This implies that efforts to increase innovation in storage can benefit conventional, fossil fuel-fired electricity …

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Effects of Carbon Pricing and Other Climate Policies on CO₂ Emissions

Kohlscheen, Emanuel; Moessner, Richhild; Takáts, Elod - 2021

We provide ex-post empirical analysis of the effects of climate policies on carbon dioxide emissions at the aggregate national level. Our results are based on a comprehensive database of 121 countries. As climate policies we examine carbon taxes and emissions trading systems (ETS), as well as...

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Effects of Carbon Pricing and Other Climate Policies on CO 2 Emissions

Kohlscheen, Emanuel; Moessner, Richhild; Takáts, Előd - 2021

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Benefit-cost analysis of environmental projects: A plethora of systematic biases

Graves, Philip E. - 2010

There are many reasons to suspect that benefit-cost analysis applied to environmental policies will result in policy decisions that will reject those environmental policies. The important question, of course, is whether those rejections are based on proper science. The present paper explores...

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Gender Differences in Face-to-Face Deceptive Behavior

Lohse, Tim - 2020

We study the role of face-to-face interaction for gender differences in deceptive behavior and perceived honesty. In … perceived honesty matters and men's truthfulness rises way beyond the level of women. To elaborate on these gender differences …

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Trust, Happiness, and Pro-Social Behavior

Carattini, Stefano - 2020

This paper combines several large-scale surveys with different identification strategies to shed new light on the determinants of cooperative behavior. We provide evidence indicating that the well-being maximizing level of trust is above the income maximizing level. Higher trust is also linked...

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Environmental Economics: The 50th Anniversary of the Birth of This Field around the First Earth Day

Fullerton, Don - 2020

How was the birth of "Environmental Economics" related to the first Earth Day fifty years ago (April 22, 1970)? This short note introduces some ideas about an amazing burst of intellectual activity from 1968 to 1974. Environmental economics was not a field of economics before this brief period,...

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Environmental Economics : The 50th Anniversary of the Birth of this Field around the First Earth Day

Fullerton, Don - 2020

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Legal institutions, innovation and growth

Anderlini, Luca; Felli, Leonardo; Immordino, Giovanni; … - 2011

We analyze the relationship between legal institutions, innovation and growth. We compare a rigid (law set ex … welfare, amount of innovation and output growth at intermediate stages of technological development - periods when legal …

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The Impact of a Large-Scale Natural Disaster on Local Economic Activity: Evidence from the 2003 Bam Earthquake in Iran

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Fischer, Sven - 2023

This study provides new causal evidence for the impact of a large-scale natural disaster on local economic activity in Iran using nighttime light intensity. We apply the synthetic control method (SCM) and nighttime light (NTL) data from 1992 to 2020 for 31 provinces and 429 counties to study the...

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