Essays on Energy and Environmental Economics
Essays on Energy and Environmental Economics
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211151132
- ISBN
- 9798382776118
- DDC
- 363
- 서명/저자
- Essays on Energy and Environmental Economics
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : Harvard University, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 288 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-12, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Aldy, Joseph;Kalouptsidi, Myrto.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약The first chapter examines the dynamics of learning-by-doing among installation firms in the residential solar industry. Consumer subsidies are a common policy tool for supporting the adoption of clean energy technologies. Policymakers often justify these programs as a means of stimulating infant industries, arguing that greater demand increases industry learning-by-doing, which in turn reduces costs for potential entrants. This requires learning spillovers between firms that make experience-based cost reductions a public good. However, spillovers can reduce firms' incentives to expand output and lower costs. To evaluate this tradeoff, I estimate a dynamic structural model of the market for solar panel installations in California that endogenizes firms' entry and exit decisions and allows for learning-by-doing with knowledge spillovers. I find that a 1 percent increase in a firm's cumulative production leads to a 0.7 percent reduction in installation-specific costs and that learning spills over across firms. Counterfactual analysis reveals that a state-level consumer subsidy program increased solar adoption by 4 percent and installer entry by 9 percent, indicating that industry cost reductions outweigh any strategic incentives for firms to reduce learning. While consumer subsidies achieve industry growth, I find that other policies such as entry subsidies provide greater welfare gains.The second chapter revisits several implicit assumptions in a common class of models used in non-market environmental valuation. Conventional applications of recreation demand models likely suffer from two standard challenges with demand estimation, namely omitted variables bias and measurement error. Idiosyncratic prices in the form of individual-level travel costs can exacerbate these two challenges: the potential for non-random selection into travel costs through residential sorting and the difficulty of observing individual-level travel costs both work to bias traditional model estimates. I demonstrate the magnitude of this potential bias in conventional estimates of recreation demand models. I provide a relatively simple instrumental variables approach to address these two empirical challenges that substantially outperforms traditional estimates in numerical simulations. Replicating English et al. (2018), I find that accounting for potential selection into travel costs and measurement error through the instrumental variables approach changes estimates of the welfare costs of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill by over 20 percent.The third chapter, coauthored with Professor Joseph E. Aldy, explores the magnitude and distribution of private impacts from large-scale public investments in climate adaptation. Flood protection infrastructure investments, such as Army Corps of Engineer levees, can enhance resilience to flood risks amplified by climate change. We estimate the benefits from levees by exploiting repeat residential property transactions. In areas protected by levees, home values increase 3 to 4 percent. Levees impose adverse spillover flood risks to nearby areas that reduce affected home values by 1 to 4 percent. Capitalized benefits in protected areas are progressive, but adverse spillover impacts are regressive. While there is little variation across race in capitalized benefits at levee construction, racial sorting occurs post-construction. Capitalized residential property benefits do not exceed levee construction costs.
- 일반주제명
- Climate change
- 일반주제명
- Finance
- 일반주제명
- Public policy
- 기타저자
- Harvard University Public Policy
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-12B.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■520 ▼aThe first chapter examines the dynamics of learning-by-doing among installation firms in the residential solar industry. Consumer subsidies are a common policy tool for supporting the adoption of clean energy technologies. Policymakers often justify these programs as a means of stimulating infant industries, arguing that greater demand increases industry learning-by-doing, which in turn reduces costs for potential entrants. This requires learning spillovers between firms that make experience-based cost reductions a public good. However, spillovers can reduce firms' incentives to expand output and lower costs. To evaluate this tradeoff, I estimate a dynamic structural model of the market for solar panel installations in California that endogenizes firms' entry and exit decisions and allows for learning-by-doing with knowledge spillovers. I find that a 1 percent increase in a firm's cumulative production leads to a 0.7 percent reduction in installation-specific costs and that learning spills over across firms. Counterfactual analysis reveals that a state-level consumer subsidy program increased solar adoption by 4 percent and installer entry by 9 percent, indicating that industry cost reductions outweigh any strategic incentives for firms to reduce learning. While consumer subsidies achieve industry growth, I find that other policies such as entry subsidies provide greater welfare gains.The second chapter revisits several implicit assumptions in a common class of models used in non-market environmental valuation. Conventional applications of recreation demand models likely suffer from two standard challenges with demand estimation, namely omitted variables bias and measurement error. Idiosyncratic prices in the form of individual-level travel costs can exacerbate these two challenges: the potential for non-random selection into travel costs through residential sorting and the difficulty of observing individual-level travel costs both work to bias traditional model estimates. I demonstrate the magnitude of this potential bias in conventional estimates of recreation demand models. I provide a relatively simple instrumental variables approach to address these two empirical challenges that substantially outperforms traditional estimates in numerical simulations. Replicating English et al. (2018), I find that accounting for potential selection into travel costs and measurement error through the instrumental variables approach changes estimates of the welfare costs of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill by over 20 percent.The third chapter, coauthored with Professor Joseph E. Aldy, explores the magnitude and distribution of private impacts from large-scale public investments in climate adaptation. Flood protection infrastructure investments, such as Army Corps of Engineer levees, can enhance resilience to flood risks amplified by climate change. We estimate the benefits from levees by exploiting repeat residential property transactions. In areas protected by levees, home values increase 3 to 4 percent. Levees impose adverse spillover flood risks to nearby areas that reduce affected home values by 1 to 4 percent. Capitalized benefits in protected areas are progressive, but adverse spillover impacts are regressive. While there is little variation across race in capitalized benefits at levee construction, racial sorting occurs post-construction. Capitalized residential property benefits do not exceed levee construction costs.
■590 ▼aSchool code: 0084.
■650 4▼aClimate change
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■653 ▼aClean technology policy
■653 ▼aClimate change adaptation
■653 ▼aFlood control policy
■653 ▼aIndustry dynamics
■653 ▼aRecreation demand
■653 ▼aRevealed preference methods
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■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17160897▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.
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