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Essays on Energy and Environmental Economics
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
저자명  
Bradt, Jacob Tipton.
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
키워드  
Clean technology policy
키워드  
Climate change adaptation
키워드  
Flood control policy
키워드  
Industry dynamics
키워드  
Recreation demand
키워드  
Revealed preference methods
기타저자  
Harvard University Public Policy
기본자료저록  
Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-12B.
전자적 위치 및 접속  
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