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(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2004)Chile was the first country in the world to implement a comprehensive reform of its electricity sector in the recent period. Among developing countries only Argentina has had a comparably comprehensive and successful reform. ...
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(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2004)I explore the advantages of tradable emission permits over uniform emission standards when the regulator has incomplete information on firms₂ emissions and costs of production and abatement (e.g., air pollution in large ...
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(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2003)We now have over a decade of experience with the privatization, restructuring, regulatory reform, and wholesale and retail competition in electricity sectors around the world. The objectives and design attributes of these ...
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(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2004)Economists know how to calculate optimal prices for electricity transmission. These are rarely applied in practice. This paper develops a thirteen node model of the transmission system in England and Wales, incorporating ...
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(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1995)The US electricity industry currently consists of vertically integrated regional utilities welding monopolistic power over their own geographic markets under the supervision of state and federally appointed regulators. ...
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(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1998)
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(2008)The Nordic power market presents a unique opportunity for testing the nature and degree of market power in storage behavior due to preciseness of data on market fundamentals determining hydro resource use. We develop an ...
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(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1992)The paper reviews and discusses uncertainty about global warming science, impact on society. It also discusses what assumptions have been made and how appropriate the assumptions in scenarios have been for estimating global ...
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(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1991)Interest in energy conservation, although to some degree cyclical, has been stimulated during the last twenty years by the rising cost of energy in a wide range of developing and developed countries, especially following ...
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(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2003)Hans Landsberg and Sam Schurr each led research teams that produced two important energy futures policy studies that were published in 1979. The conclusions, policy recommendations, and energy demand, supply, and price ...
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(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2006)Since the start of its economic reforms in 1978, China's energy prices relative to other prices have increased. At the same time, its energy intensity, i.e., energy consumption per unit of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), has ...
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(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2006)This paper investigates the link between factor prices, technology and factor demands. I estimate the effect of price-induced technology adoption on energy demand in the U.S. manufacturing sector, using plant data from the ...
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(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1990)This is a survey paper for non-specialists on interactions between energy and productivity growth. The first half of the paper surveys the general economic literature linking technical progress to realized gains in ...
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(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2002)This paper develops a methodology for estimating potential cost savings from the use of market-based instruments (MBIs) when local emissions and abatement cost data are not available. The paper provides estimates of the ...
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(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 1999)Most economists and analysts claim that extended use of pollution charges in environmental policy will have substantial efficiency advantages in countries undergoing transition to market economies. Essentially this paper ...
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(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2011-07)Using the most comprehensive data file ever compiled on air pollution, water pollution, environmental regulations, and infant mortality from a developing country, the paper examines the effectiveness of India’s environmental ...
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(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2011-05)The United States Government recently concluded a year-long process to develop a range of values representing the monetized damages associated with an incremental increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, commonly referred ...
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(MIT CEEPR, 2012-07)Ethanol made from corn comprises 10% of US gasoline, up from 3% in 2003. This dramatic increase was spurred by recent policy initiatives such as the Renewable Fuel Standard and state-level blend mandates, and supported ...
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(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2008)The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is the largest greenhouse gas market ever established. The European Union is leading the world's first effort to mobilize market forces to tackle climate change. A precise ...
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(2008)The European Union's Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is the world's first multinational cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gases. As an agreement between sovereign nations with diverse historical, institutional, and ...
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