Showing papers in "Resource and Energy Economics in 2011"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a stated preference study of electric vehicle choice using data from a national survey, where 3029 respondents were asked to choose between their preferred gasoline vehicle and two electric versions of that preferred vehicle.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the first program to expose residential consumers to hourly real-time pricing (RTP) and find that enrolled households are statistically significantly price elastic and that consumers responded by conserving energy during peak hours, but remarkably did not increase average consumption during off-peak times.

TL;DR: This paper showed that resource-dependent counties exhibit more anemic economic growth, even after controlling for state-specific effects, socio-demographic differences, initial income, and spatial correlation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a vertically integrated multi-input, multi-output market model with two channels of price transmission: a direct biofuel channel and an indirect input channel.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the use of Internet as a survey mode for a CVM study aimed at valuing a gain in life expectancy in the context of air pollution, and the convergence validity of the web-based survey mode is examined against face-to-face interviews with respect to differences in socio-demographic characteristics, non-response bias, and differences in willingness to pay-related parameters.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the convergence hypothesis for per capita CO2 emissions with a panel of 166 world areas covering the period 1960-2002 and found that non-stationary, flattening and right-skewed spatial distributions before the oil price shocks of the 1970s and more stable and symmetric shapes between 1980 and 2000 at the world level and for many country groupings (similar income, geographic neighbors, institutional partners) emerged with the clearest single-peaked and compact density shapes being reached in the wealthy, well-integrated and European countries during the

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the relative efficiency of simple incentive-based policies in achieving biodiversity conservation objectives and found substantial differences in biodiversity conservation scores generated by simple voluntary incentive based policies and efficient solutions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the dynamic behaviour of household electricity consumption on the basis of four large independent surveys conducted in the province of Quebec from 1989 to 2002, and they adopt Deaton (1985) approach to create 25 cohorts of households that form a pseudo-panel.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between the provision of waste treatment facilities and the frequency of illegal dumping and found that a shortage of intermediate waste treatment facility has played an important role in increasing the illegal dumping.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors considered an endogenous growth model with climate change as well as three R&D sectors dedicated to energy, CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage) and backstop efficiency.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an economic analysis of CO2-enhanced oil recovery (EOR), which involves injecting CO2 into mature oil fields in a manner that reduces the oil's viscosity, thereby enhancing the rate of extraction.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors determined the sources of energy productivity growth at the provincial level in China and examined the relative contributions of the sources and their impacts on regional inequality and found that changes in capital energy ratio, output structure, and technological change contribute to energy productivity in China.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that endogenous refunding of environmental policy revenues leads to higher output, emissions, and overall costs compared with a fixed rebate program targeting the same emissions intensity.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of environmental policies considering taxes on polluting inputs and subsidies to reduce the cost of abatement capital were studied, and the authors assumed that ecological uncertainty, i.e., uncertainty over the dynamics of pollution, affects firm investment decisions.

TL;DR: Effects of age on valuation of mortality and morbidity risks using a two-stage contingent valuation survey and a sample including parents of children aged 4-17 years and adults aged 18-92 are examined.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify a potential destabilizing effect of the introduction of options on the underlying market (EU ETS futures) by instrumenting various GARCH models, endogenous break tests, and rolling window estimations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a new type of computable general equilibrium (CGE) model in which growth is fully endogenous, based on the increasing specialization of sector-specific capital varieties.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect on stated preferences of expanding the number of binary choice tasks per respondent from one to four is tested using a split sample treatment in an attribute-based survey relating to the undergrounding of overhead lowvoltage electricity and telecommunications wires.

TL;DR: In this article, a subtle error in the derivation of Pindyck's optimal stopping problem is discussed and numerical solutions to these and related problems can be obtained numerically.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimate and forecast the Chinese demand for coal using panel data disaggregated by provinces and accounting for spatial heterogeneity, and explicitly capture the spatial autocorrelation among provinces using spatial econometrics.

TL;DR: This paper used the hedonic wage framework to take advantage of the inherent differences in workplace deaths, both in type and probability of occurrence, and examined revealed preferences over these heterogeneous risks.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of TOA on environmental cooperation in a framework of coalition stability is analyzed using a numerical model, and the authors find that participation in and environmental effectiveness of the IEA are raised less effectively when the TOA focuses on research cooperation in mitigation technology rather than cooperation on augmenting productivity in the private good sector.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a general empirical strategy to estimate willingness-to-pay (WTP) for exogenous risk mitigation when environmental risks are endogenous in protective actions and consumers are imperfectly informed about the ambient risk levels.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of emission taxes on pollution abatement and social welfare is examined in a Cournot oligopoly with free-entry, and the authors calculate the welfare-maximizing emission tax and compare it to the Pigouvian tax.

TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-analysis of contingent valuation studies of biodiversity has been carried out to explore the treatment of different possible measures of the quantity of the good in relation to scope sensitivity.

TL;DR: In this paper, a bio-economic model of open access habitat and wildlife exploitation is developed, which is consistent with farming and hunting societies living in close proximity to forest reserves in developing countries.

TL;DR: In this article, the potential goal conflict between sustainable forests and reduced climate impact was analyzed by using a forest sector model that includes the suppliers and major users of roundwood, based on a data set that spans 40 years, showing that all the own price elasticities have the expected signs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the physical constraints on the growth process of electricity consumption and provided a metabolic-energetic founded law of motion for capital per capita that is mathematically isomorphic to the one emanating from the Solow growth model.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider a simple duopoly market in which a home firm and a foreign firm use labor to produce an identical product and supply it to the home market and show conditions under which international trade liberalization decreases (increases) the global pollution.

TL;DR: In this paper, a costbenefit analysis of moose harvesting in Scandinavia is presented within the framework of an age structured model with four categories of animals (calves, yearlings, adult females, and adult males).