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    • Update on the Cost of Nuclear Power 

      Parsons, John E.; Du, Yangbo (2009)
      We update the cost of nuclear power as calculated in the MIT (2003) Future of Nuclear Power study. Our main focus is on the changing cost of construction of new plants. The MIT (2003) study provided useful data on the cost ...

    • On Coase and Hotelling 

      Montero, Juan-Pablo; Liski, Matti (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 ...

    • Designing a US Market for CO2 

      Ellerman, A. Denny; Parsons, John E. (2009)
      In this paper we focus on one component of the cap-and-trade system: the markets that arise for trading allowances after they have been allocated or auctioned. The efficient functioning of the market is key to the success ...