Technology Adoption and Early Network Infrastructure Provision in the Market for Electric Vehicles
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van Dijk, Jeremy; Delacrétaz, Nathan; Lanz, Bruno
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We document non-linear stock effects in the relationship linking emerging technology adoption and network infrastructure increments. We exploit 2010–2017 data covering nascent to mature electric vehicle (EV) markets across 422 Norwegian municipalities together with two complementary identification strategies: control function regressions of EV sales on flexible polynomials in the stock of charging stations and charging points, and synthetic control methods to quantify the impact of initial infrastructure provision in municipalities that previously had none. Our results are consistent with indirect network effects and the behavioral bias called “range anxiety,” and support policies targeting early infrastructure provision to incentivize EV adoption.
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2022-07-07Department
MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Joint Program on the Science & Policy of Global ChangePublisher
Springer Netherlands
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van Dijk, Jeremy, Delacrétaz, Nathan and Lanz, Bruno. 2022. "Technology Adoption and Early Network Infrastructure Provision in the Market for Electric Vehicles."
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