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Mason, Charles F.; Muehlenbachs, Lucija A.; Olmstead, … - 2015

in the first decade. The boom has been accompanied by concerns about negative externalities, including impacts to air … market impacts and positive externalities, providing back-of-the-envelope estimates of their magnitude. The paper also … summarizes the current science and economics literatures on negative externalities. We conclude that the likely scope of economic …

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Carbon Price and Wind Power Support in Denmark

Gavard, Claire - 2015

This paper aims at characterizing the conditions of wind power deployment in order to infer a carbon price level that would provide wind power with comparable advantage over fossil fuel technologies as effective wind support policies. The analysis is conducted on Danish data from 2000 to 2010,...

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How to Make the Oil Industry Go Bust

Fix, Blair - In: Real-World Economics Review (2023) 103, pp. 2-25

Can the oil industry afford to clean up its mess? If by ‘mess’ we mean fossil-fuel-induced climate change, the answer is almost certainly ‘no’. But what if we look at a more limited cleanup scenario, restricted to the remediation of conventional oil and gas wells? Even then, it seems...

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Renewable energy, trade performance and the conditional role of finance and institutional capacity of sub-Sahara African countries

Akinyemi, Opeyemi; Efobi, Uchenna Rapuluchukwu; Asongu, … - 2019

The paper investigates the dynamic relationship between renewable energy usage and trade performance in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), while considering the conditioning role of corruption control, regulatory quality, and the private sector access to finance. Focusing on 42 SSA countries for the...

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Economic and environmental sustainability through trade openness and energy production

Elhassan, Tomader - In: Business Systems Research (BSR) 14 (2023) 2, pp. 102-123

increase in environmental pollution. Objectives: This study investigated the impact of energy production and trade openness on … Saudi Arabia's economic growth and environmental pollution using annual data from 1970 to 2020. Methods/Approach: The fully … models, including an economic growth model and an environmental Sustainability or pollution model. Results: The results of …

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The Effect of Registration Taxes on New Car Sales and Emissions: Evidence from Switzerland

Alberini, Anna; Bareit, Markus - 2016

In Switzerland, the annual circulation taxes on road vehicles are set by and paid to the cantons (not to the federal government). We exploit the 26 different circulation tax rules and their variation over time, which we interpret as a natural experiment, to see if linking them to a vehicle’s...

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Energy Evaluation and Economic Impact Analysis of Green Roofs Applied to a Pilot Region in Aegean Coast of Turkey

Çelik, Serdar; Retzlaff, William; Morgan, Susan; … - 2010

This paper examines the energy savings, environmental benefits, and economic impact of green roof systems applied to a "micro" region in Western Turkey. This subdivision (Artur) in Karaaægaç, Izmir, consists of 1729 residential units, mostly used as summer homes. The units are in 45m2, 60m2,...

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Determining the Environmental Effects of Indirect Subsidies

van Beers, Cees; van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M.; de Moor, … - 2004

Up to now a clear theoretical and methodological framework for economic-environmental analysis of environmentally damaging subsidies is lacking. Environmentally damaging subsidies are all kinds of direct and indirect subsidies aimed at achieving a certain (often non-environmental) goal that...

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The Impact of Climate Change on Mortality in the United States: Benefits and Costs of Adaptation

Deschenes, Olivier - 2022

This paper reviews and extends the recent empirical literature on the impact of climate change on mortality and adaptation in the United States. The analysis produces several new facts. First, the reductions in the impact of extreme heat on mortality risk previously documented up to 2004 have...

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How regulation might fail to reduce energy consumption while still stimulating total factor productivity growth

Bansal, Sangeeta; Filippini, Massimo; Srinivasan, Suchita - 2023

This paper evaluates the impact of a policy that was implemented to reduce the energy intensity of firms in some manufacturing sectors in India, on the total factor productivity (TFP) growth of firms and on its components, scale efficiency and technical change. Using plant-level panel data on...

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