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From Energy-intensive to Innovation-led Growth: On the Transition Dynamics of China’s Economy

Jin, Wei; Zhang, ZhongXiang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

Whether China continues its current energy-intensive growth path or adopts a sustainable development prospect has … contributes to an economic exposition of China’s potential transition from an energy-intensive to an innovation-led growth path …. We find that in China’s initial growth period the small amount of capital stock creates higher dynamic benefits of …

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Quo Vadis? Energy Consumption and Technological Innovation in China's Economic Growth

Zhang, ZhongXiang; Jin, Wei - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014

Whether China maintains its business-as-usual energy-intensive growth trajectory or changes to a sustainable …

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The price of wind power in China during its expansion: Technology adoption, learning-by-doing, economies of scale, and manufacturing localization

Qiu, Yueming; Anadon, Laura D. - In: Energy Economics 34 (2012) 3, pp. 772-785

Using the bidding prices of participants in China's national wind project concession programs from 2003 to 2007, this … a novel knowledge stock metric based on technology adoption in China through both domestic technology development and … international technology transfer. The paper describes, for the first time, the evolution of the price of wind power in China, and …

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Biofuels production versus forestry in the presence of lobbies and technological change

Hammes, Johanna Jussila - Transportekonomi, Väg- och Transportforskninginstitut (VTI) - 2009

We study the political determination of a hypothetical land tax, which internalises a negative environmental externality from biofuels. The tax allocates land from biofuels towards forestry. Lobbying affects the tax rate, so that the sector with the lower elasticity of land demand determines the...

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Policies and Practices of Low Carbon City Development in China

Wang, Can; Lin, Jie; Cai, Wenjia; Zhang, ZhongXiang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

Globally as well as in China, cities have contributed to most of the economic output and have accordingly given rise to … whatever climate commitments beyond 2020 that China may take. Given the paramount importance of cities, China is practicing low … characteristics of China’s LCC development. The paper then identifies eight problems and challenges for China’s LCC development …

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The current state of CCS: Ongoing research at the University of Cambridge with application to the UK policy framework

Daniels, K.A.; Huppert, H.E.; Neufeld, J.A.; Reiner, D. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2012

The Earth's climate is changing and the release of carbon dioxide (CO2) is recognised as the principal cause. To meet legally binding targets, UK GHG emissions need to be cut by at least 80% of the 1990 levels by 2050. With an increase in future fossil fuel use, Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)...

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Carbon Lock-In: The Role of Expectations

Meijden, Gerard van der; Smulders, Sjak - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

We argue that expectations about future energy use affect the transition from fossil fuels to renewable substitutes, because of an interaction between innovation and resource scarcity. The paper presents a model of directed technical change to study this interaction. We find that resource-saving...

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Where does energy R&D come from? Examining crowding out from energy R&D

Popp, David; Newell, Richard - In: Energy Economics 34 (2012) 4, pp. 980-991

Recent efforts to endogenize technological change in climate policy models demonstrate the importance of accounting for the opportunity cost of climate R&D investments. Because the social returns to R&D investments are typically higher than the social returns to other types of investment, any...

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Technology variation vs. R&D uncertainty: What matters most for energy patent success?

Popp, David; Santen, Nidhi; Fisher-Vanden, Karen; … - In: Resource and Energy Economics 35 (2013) 4, pp. 505-533

R&D is an uncertain activity with highly skewed outcomes. Nonetheless, most recent empirical studies and modeling estimates of the potential of technological change focus on the average returns to research and development (R&D) for a composite technology and contain little or no information...

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Innovation Benefits from Nuclear Phase-out: Can they Compensate the Costs?

Cian, Enrica De; Carrara, Samuel; Tavoni, Massimo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

This paper investigates whether an inefficient allocation of abatement, due to constraints on the use of currently available low carbon mitigation options, can promote innovation in new technologies and eventually generate welfare gains. We focus on the case of nuclear power phase out, when...

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