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A note on competitive investment under uncertainty
(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1991)This paper clarifies how uncertainty affects irreversible investment in a competitive market equilibrium. With free entry, irreversibility affects the distribution of future prices, and thereby creates an opportunity cost ... -
A note on market power in an emission permits market with banking
(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2004)In this paper, we investigate the effect of market power on the equilibrium path of an emission permits market in which firms can bank current permits for use in later periods. In particular, we study the market equilibrium ... -
Nuclear Fuel Recycling - the Value of the Separated Transuranics and the Levelized Cost of Electricity
(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2009-09)We analyze the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) for three different fuel cycles: a Once-Through Cycle, in which the spent fuel is sent for disposal after one use in a reactor, a Twice-Through Cycle, in which the spent ... -
Oil and natural gas reserve prices : addendum to CEEPR WP 03-016 ; including results for 2003 revisions to 2001
(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2005)Introduction. A working paper entitled "Oil and Natural Gas Reserve Prices 1982-2002: Implications for Depletion and Investment Cost" was published in October 2003 (cited hereafter as Adelman & Watkins [2003]). Since then ... -
Oil and natural gas reserve prices, 1982-2002 : implications for depletion and investment cost
(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2003)A time series is estimated of in-ground prices - as distinct from wellhead prices ₆ of US oil and natural gas reserves for the period 1982-2002, using market purchase and sale transaction information. The prices are a ... -
Oil futures prices in a production economy with investment constraints
(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2008)We document a new stylized fact regarding the term structure of futures volatility. We show that the relationship between the volatility of futures prices and the slope of the term structure of prices is non-monotone and ... -
The oil price really is a speculative bubble
(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2008)The oil price really is a speculative bubble. Yet only recently has the U.S. Congress, for example, showed recognition that this might even be a possibility. In general there seems to be a preference for the claim that the ... -
On Coase and Hotelling
(2009)It has been long recognized that an exhaustible-resource monopsonist faces a commitment problem similar to that of a durable-good monopolist. Indeed, Hörner and Kamien (2004) demonstrate that the two problems are formally ... -
On The Portents of Peak Oil (And Other Indicators of Resource Scarcity)
(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2010-08)Although economists have studied various indicators of resource scarcity (e.g., unit cost, resource rent, and market price), the phenomenon of “peaking” has largely been ignored due to its connection to non-economic theories ... -
One for you, three for me, or, optimal production sharing rules for a petroleum exploration venture
(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1990)This is a case study in the design of the production sharing rule used in an oil exploration partnership contract. The contract was negotiated in mid-1986 when a state-owned oil resources authority hired a ... -
OPEC at high noon 1974-1981
(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1992)After 1973, oil consumption stagnated worldwide. Non-OPEC output increased, mostly in Alaska, Mexico, and the North Sea, but not because of the price rise. The cartel nations had to assume the whole burden of cutting back ... -
Optimal design of a phase-in emissions trading program with voluntary compliance options
(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1997.)In this paper we explore the welfare implications of voluntary compliance within an emissions trading program and derive optimal permits allocations to affected and opti-in sources when the environmental regulator has ... -
Optimal timing problems in environmental economics
(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2001)Because of the uncertainties and irreversibilities that are often inherent in environmental degradation, its prevention, and its economic consequences, environmental policy design can involve important problems of timing. ... -
The option to try again : valuing a sequence of dependent trials
(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2004)In various fields of economic endeavor, agents enjoy the option to ₃try, try again.₄ Failure in a particular pursuit often brings renewed effort to finally succeed. Many areas of R&D could be characterized in this fashion. ... -
Option valuation of flexible investments : the case of a coal gasifier
(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1994)This paper examines the use of contingent claim analysis to evaluate the option of retrofitting a coal gasifier on an existing gas-fired power plant in order to take advantage of changes in the relative prices of natural ... -
Option valuation of flexible investments : the case of a scrubber for coal-fired power plant
(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1994)Standard discounted cash flow methods are not well suited to the valuation of investments whose characteristics can be modified by the decision-maker after the initial investment decision has been made (multistage decision ... -
Options, the value of capital, and investment
(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1995)Continuing rapid growth in U.S. gasoline consumption threatens to exacerbate environmental and congestion problems. We use flexible semiparametric and nonparametric methods to guide analysis of household gasoline consumption, ... -
The organization and management of nuclear power plants
(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1990)The explanation of aggregate and sectoral investment behavior has been one of the less successful endeavors in empirical economics. Existing econometric models have had little success in explaining or ... -
Organizational learning at nuclear power plants
(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1991)The Nuclear Power Plant Advisory Panel on Organizational Learning provides channels of communications between the management and organization research projects of the MIT International Program for Enhanced Nuclear Power ... -
Over-allocation or abatement? : a preliminary analysis of the EU ETS based on the 2005 emission data
(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2006)This paper provides an initial analysis of the EU ETS based on the installation-level data for verified emissions and allowance allocations in the first trading year. Those data, released on May 15, 2006, and subsequent ...
