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Investment in Electricity Transmission and Ancillary Environmental Benefits

Burtraw, Dallas; Bharvirkar, Ranjit; Bloyd, Cary - 2002

Planning of the electricity transmission system generally focuses on the pros and cons of providing generation close to … the source of the power demand versus remote generation linked via the transmission system. Recent electricity supply … problems in the western United States have renewed interest in the role of transmission in assuring the reliability of …

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Does Improved Sanitation Reduce Diarrhea in Children in Rural India?

Kumar, Santosh; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2012

Almost nine million children under five years of age die every year. Diarrhea is considered to be the second leading cause of under- five mortality in developing countries. About one out of five deaths is caused by diarrhea. In this paper, we use the newly available data set DLHS-3 to quantify...

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The persistent effects of place-based policy: Evidence from the West-German Zonenrandgebiet

von Ehrlich, Maximilian; Seidel, Tobias - 2015

Using a natural experiment from Germany, we show that temporary placebased subsidies generate persistent effects on economic density. We identify employment and capital formation as main channels for higher income per square kilometer. As the spatial regression discontinuity design allows us to...

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Returns to Publicly Owned Transport Infrastructure Investment. A Cost Function/Cost Share Approach for Norway, 1971-1991

Bye, Torstein; Katz, Alexandra - 1995

An issue of major concern to politicians and policy-makers around the world today is whether transport infrastructure investments, such as those in roads and airports, generate enough economic benefits to justify their very large price tag. Beginning in the mid 1970s, nearly all OECD countries...

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Some Norwegian Politicians' Use of Cost-Benefit Analysis

Nyborg, Karine - 1996

Members of the Norwegian Parliament were interviewed about the decision process concerning national road investments. Most of them found cost-benefit analysis useful, but apparently not as a device for ranking projects. Rather, the cost-benefit ratio was used to pick project proposals requiring...

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Fiscal Incentives and Environmental Infrastructure in China

Liu, Antung Anthony; Zhang, Junjie - 2012

This paper provides evidence that China's system of tax revenue sharing is an important explanation for differences in the rate of sewage treatment plant construction among its cities. As a result of the 1994 tax reform, Chinese cities retained different shares of their value-added tax (VAT)....

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Automobile Usage and Urban Rail Transit Expansion

Xie, Lunyu - 2012

Using individual travel diary data collected before and after the rail transit coverage expansion in urban Beijing, this paper estimates the impact of rail accessibility improvement on the usage of rail transit, automobiles, buses, walking, and bicycling, measured as percent distance traveled by...

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Benchmarking heterogeneous distribution system operators: Evidence from Norway

Elias, George - 2016

Regulatory authorities in the European electricity sector use benchmarking techniques to determine the cost-efficient production level for an incentive regulation of distribution system operators (DSOs). With nearly 900 DSOs operating in the German electricity sector, of which 200 subject to...

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“Night of the Living Dead” or “Back to the Future”? Electric Utility Decoupling, Reviving Rate-of-Return Regulation, and Energy Efficiency

Brennan, Timothy J. - 2008

The distribution grid for delivering electricity to the user has been paid for as part of the charge per kilowatt-hour that covers the cost of the energy itself. Conservation advocates have promoted the adoption of policies that “decouple” electric distribution company revenues or profits...

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The Economic and Policy Setting of Renewable Energy: Where Do Things Stand?

Darmstadter, Joel - 2003

This paper looks at the status and prospects of renewables—with particular emphasis on windpower—in the electric power sector. Although renewables account for a steadily rising share of electricity generation in various countries, their role remains small in absolute terms. In part, this is...

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