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Electricity and Firm Productivity: A General-Equilibrium Approach
Social Science Research Network, 2020 Many policymakers view power outages as a major constraint on firm productivity in developing countries. Yet empirical studies find modest short-run effects of outages on firm performance. This paper builds a dynamic macroeconomic model to study the long-
Stephie Fried, David Lagakos
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Charging Ahead: Prepaid Metering, Electricity Use, and Utility Revenue
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020 Monthly bills for services such as electricity often go unpaid in developing countries. Prepaid meters offer a potential technological solution. In Cape Town, South Africa, over 4,000 residential customers on monthly billing were switched to prepaid ...
K. Jack, Grant Smith
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The Electric Vehicle Transition and the Economics of Banning Gasoline Vehicles
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2020 Electric vehicles have a unique potential to transform personal transportation. We analyze this transition with a dynamic model capturing falling costs of electric vehicles, decreasing pollution from electricity, and increasing vehicle substitutability ...
S. Holland, E. Mansur, Andrew Yates
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Does Strategic Ability Affect Efficiency? Evidence from Electricity Markets
The American Economic Review, 2017 Oligopoly models of price competition predict that strategic firms exercise market power and generate inefficiencies. However, heterogeneity in firms’ strategic ability also generates inefficiencies.
Ali Hortaçsu +3 more
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American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2018 Using integrated assessment models, we calculate the economic value of the extraordinary decline in emissions from US power plants. Annual local and global air pollution damages fell from $245 to $133 billion over 2010–2017.
S. Holland +3 more
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The Competitive Effects of Transmission Infrastructure in the Indian Electricity Market
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2017 The integration of markets may improve efficiency by lowering costs or reducing local market power. India, seeking to reduce electricity shortages, set up a new power market, in which transmission constraints sharply limit trade between regions.
Nicholas Ryan
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Real-Time Pricing and the Cost of Clean Power
American Economic Journal: Economic PolicySolar and wind power are now cheaper than fossil fuels but are intermittent. The extra supply-side variability implies growing benefits of using real-time retail pricing (RTP).
Imelda +2 more
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Estimating the Target-Consistent Carbon Price for Electricity
Energy JournalThe target-consistent price of carbon for an electricity sector decarbonizing through massive variable renewable electricity (VRE) depends sensitively on the VRE penetration level, as the marginal curtailment of VRE rises rapidly beyond a certain level ...
David Newbery
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Energy JournalThe paper uses a social cost benefit analysis (SCBA) approach to measure the effects of the power system reform starting from 2015 in Jiangsu province, China.
Tianyu Li +4 more
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Do Energy Efficiency Investments Deliver at the Right Time?
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017 Most analyses of energy efficiency investments ignore that the value of electricity varies widely across hours. We show how much timing matters. Using novel hourly consumption data from an air conditioner rebate program in California, we find that energy
J. Boomhower, Lucas W. Davis
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