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Going offshore : investments in German wind energy under uncertainty

Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael - 2015

energy deployment. The numerical results reveal that the long term subsidies in Germany set prices that provide higher …

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Harnessing the wind : the impact of wind farm development on municipal finances

Serra-Sala, Claudia - 2024

Wind farm development, despite offering global benefits, often encounters local opposition fostered by local negative externalities and uncertain benefits. This study investigates the financial impact of wind farm development on host municipalities using Spanish municipality-level budget data...

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Should we give up after Solyndra? : optimal technology R&D portfolios under uncertainty

Webster, Mort; Fisher-Vanden, Karen; Popp, David; … - 2015

Global climate change and other environmental challenges require the development of new energy technologies with lower emissions. In the near-term, R&D investments, either by government or the private sector, can bring down the costs of these lower emission technologies. However, the results of...

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Not in my backyard? : the local impact of wind and solar parks in Brazil

Scheifele, Fabian; Popp, David - 2024

Support from local citizens is important for the scale-up of renewable energy. We investigate the impact of utility-scale wind and solar parks on employment, GDP and public finances in Brazilian municipalities using a difference-in-differences design with matching. We find a positive employment...

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Do carbon offsets offset carbon?

Calel, Raphael; Colmer, Jonathan; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine - 2021

We develop and implement a new method for identifying wasted subsidies, and use it to provide systematic evidence on the misallocation of carbon offsets in the Clean Development Mechanism - the world's largest carbon offset program. Using newly constructed data on the locations and...

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Wind turbines, shadow flicker, and real estate values

Andersen, Carsten; Hener, Timo - 2023

house transactions since 1992 and data on all turbines ever established in Denmark, we are able to control for individual …

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The learning process and technological change in wind power : evidence from China's CDM wind project

Tang, Tian; Popp, David - 2014

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a project-based carbon trade mechanism that subsidizes the users of climate-friendly technologies and encourages technology transfer. The CDM has provided financial support for a large share of Chinese wind projects since 2002. Using pooled...

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What's in a name? : initial geography and German urban development

Nguyen, Duc A.; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2023

Place names, or toponyms, provide insight into the initial geographical characteristics of settlements. We present a unique dataset of 3,705 German toponyms that includes the date of the first historical record mentioning the settlement and the date it was granted city rights. We show that the...

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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 green technology support policies on carbon dioxide emissions

Moessner, Richhild - 2024

This paper provides ex-post empirical evidence on the effects of green technology support policies, in comparison with other climate policies, on carbon dioxide emissions at the aggregate national level. The paper uses cross-country dynamic panel estimation for a sample of 38 countries over the...

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