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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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Climate Change, Directed Innovation, and Energy Transition : The Long-run Consequences of the Shale Gas Revolution

Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Barrage, Lint; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We investigate the short- and long-term effects of a natural gas boom in an economy where energy can be produced with coal, natural gas, or clean sources and the direction of technology is endogenous. In the short run, a natural gas boom reduces carbon emissions by inducing substitution away...

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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 firms' claims that disclosure...

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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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Welfare and Distributional Implications of Shale Gas

Hausman, Catherine - 2015

Technological innovations in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing have enabled tremendous amounts of natural …

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

Ayres, Ian - 2009

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

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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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Natural Gas Price Elasticities and Optimal Cost Recovery Under Consumer Heterogeneity : Evidence from 300 million natural gas bills

Auffhammer, Maximilian - 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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What Matters for Electrification? Evidence from 70 Years of U.S. Home Heating Choices

Davis, Lucas W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

most important single factor. This framework is then used to calculate the economic cost of an electrification mandate for …

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