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When Does Regulation Distort Costs? Lessons from Fuel Procurement in U.S. Electricity Generation

Cicala, Steve - 2014

following state-level legislation that ended cost-of-service regulation of electricity generation. I find that deregulated …

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Natural Gas Price Elasticities and Optimal Cost Recovery Under Consumer Heterogeneity : Evidence from 300 Million Natural Gas Bills

Auffhammer, Max - 2018

upstream natural gas spot market. We estimate that the elasticity of demand for residential natural gas is between -0.23 and -0 …

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Learning by Viewing? Social Learning, Regulatory Disclosure, and Firm Productivity in Shale Gas

Fetter, T. Robert - 2018

In many industries firms can learn about new technologies from other adopters; mandatory disclosure regulations represent an understudied channel for this type of social learning. We study an environmentally-focused law in the shale gas industry to examine firm claims that disclosure...

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Evidence from Two Large Field Experiments that Peer Comparison Feedback Can Reduce Residential Energy Usage

Ayres, Ian - 2014

, utilities can reduce energy consumption at a low cost. We analyze data from two large-scale, random-assignment field experiments …

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Efficient Contracting and Market Power : Evidence from the U.S. Natural Gas Industry

Hubbard, R. Glenn; Weiner, Robert J. - 2021

buyers (pipelines) and sellers (producers) in each market and the large capital commitments required of transacting parties … models of market power and bargaining has been sparse, principally because the necessary data on individual transactions are …

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Can Natural Gas Save Lives? Evidence from the Deployment of a Fuel Delivery System in a Developing Country

Cesur, Resul - 2016

There has been a widespread displacement of coal by natural gas as space heating and cooking technology in Turkey in the last two decades, triggered by the deployment of natural gas networks. In this paper, we examine the impact of this development on mortality among adults and the elderly. Our...

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Making Carbon Taxation a Generational Win Win

Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - 2019

Carbon taxation has been studied primarily in social planner or infinitely lived agent models, which trade off the welfare of future and current generations. Such frameworks obscure the potential for carbon taxation to produce a generational win-win. This paper develops a large-scale, dynamic...

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The Allocative Cost of Price Ceilings in the U.S. Residential Market for Natural Gas

Davis, Lucas W. - 2008

cost has been discussed in the literature as a potentially important component of the total welfare loss from price … data for the U.S. residential market for natural gas which was subject to price ceilings during 1954-1989. This market is … household-level, discrete-continuous model of natural gas demand, we estimate that the allocative cost in the U.S. residential …

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Do Americans Consume Too Little Natural Gas? An Empirical Test of Marginal Cost Pricing

Davis, Lucas W. - 2010

This paper measures the extent to which prices exceed marginal costs in the U.S. natural gas distribution market during … the period 1991-2007. We find large departures from marginal cost pricing in all 50 states, with residential and …

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Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Energy Subsidies

Hahn, Robert W.; Metcalfe, Robert D. - 2022

marginal social cost. Third, benefits to CARE customers need to increase by 6% to offset the costs of the program …

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