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Show Me the Money! A Field Experiment on Electric Vehicle Charge Timing

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
We use a field experiment to measure the effectiveness of financial incentives to shift the timing of electric vehicle (EV) charging. EV owners respond strongly to financial incentives, reducing charging during peak hours by 49 percent by shifting to off-
Megan R. Bailey, David P. Brown, Blake Shaffer, Frank A. Wolak   +3 more
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The Global Infrastructure Gap: Potential, Perils, and a Framework for Distinction

Journal of Economic Literature, 2023
In 2015, the World Bank claimed that rich-country private capital could: (i) close the infrastructure services gap in poor countries, (ii) achieve the sustainable development goals, and (iii) make money by moving from “billions to trillions” of ...
Camille Gardner, P. Henry
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Do Consumers Distinguish Fixed Cost from Variable Cost? “Schmeduling” in Two-Part Tariffs in Energy

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
A central assumption in economics is that consumers properly distinguish fixed cost from variable cost. This assumption is fundamental to various economic theories, including optimal taxation, redistribution, and price discrimination.
Koichiro Ito, Shuang Zhang
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Wind Intermittency and Supply-Demand Imbalance: Evidence from U.S. Regional Power Markets

Social Science Research Network
Wind is a prominent source of clean electricity but is highly variable due to random changes in wind speeds. Intermittent generation is problematic because electricity supply must match demand at all times with little margin for error.
Victoria Godwin, Matthew E. Oliver
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Electric Vehicles and the Energy Transition: Unintended Consequences of Time-of-Use Pricing

American Economic Review: Insights
The growth of electric vehicles (EVs) raises new challenges for electricity systems. We implement a field experiment to assess the effect of time-of-use (TOU) pricing and managed charging on EV charging behavior.
Megan R. Bailey, David P. Brown, Erica Myers, Blake Shaffer, Frank A. Wolak   +4 more
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Do Two Electricity Pricing Wrongs Make a Right? Cost Recovery, Externalities, and Efficiency

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2018
Economists favor pricing pollution in part so that consumers face the full social marginal cost (SMC) of goods and services. But even absent externalities, retail electricity prices typically exceed private marginal cost, due to a utility’s need to cover
S. Borenstein, J. Bushnell
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The Role of People versus Places in Individual Carbon Emissions

The American Economic Review
There is substantial spatial heterogeneity in household carbon emissions. I leverage movers in two decades of administrative Decennial Census and American Community Survey data to estimate place effects—the amount by which carbon emissions change for the
Eva Lyubich
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The Price of Power: Costs of Political Corruption in Indian Electricity

The American Economic Review
Politicians may target public goods to benefit their constituents, at the expense of others. I study corruption in the context of Indian electricity and estimate the welfare consequences.
M. Mahadevan
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Ex-post Effectiveness Evaluation of Incentive Regulation in the Electricity Distribution: A Semi-parametric Panel Data StoNED Approach

Energy Journal
In numerous countries, electricity Distribution System Operators (DSOs) function as local monopolies. To counter potential abuse of monopoly power, regulators, especially in Europe, often employ mechanisms like DSO-specific revenue caps to encourage cost
Kjartan E. Rasmussen
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Bidding and Investment in Wholesale Electricity Markets: Discriminatory versus Uniform-Price Auctions Working Paper

Social Science Research Network, 2023
We compare uniform and discriminatory-price auctions in wholesale electricity markets, studying both long-run investment incentives and short-run bidding behaviors.
Bert Willems, Yuejuan Yu
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