A political party’s ideological position regarding climate change can be either progrowth or pro-environment. However, the ideological position itself does not sufficiently explain climate change denial. To study this issue, I develop a cheap-talk game of the three parties associated with climate change: the government, the climate scientist, and the median voter. I show that a credibility gap ...

We focus on residential electricity and gas demand, and ask three research questions. First, how does residential energy use respond to prices? We specifically wish to examine whether ownand cross-price elasticities have changed in recent years, given the evolution of the energy market. Second, is such responsiveness sensitive to equipment and energy choices that are not easily reversed (e.g., ...

Three captive loggerhead sea turtles, Caretta caretta, were used in four trials, one i.v. and three i.m., to determine the pharmacokinetic properties of a single dose of ticarcillin. For the i.v. study, each turtle received a single 50 mg/kg dose and blood samples were collected at 0, 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, and 12 hr and at 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 14 days after administration. For the ...

The development of the electricity sector in Albania continues to be fenced by high rates inefficiencies, insufficient security supply, low rate RES investment including wind power plants and need further unbundle liberalise energy market following adoption legal basis, GHG credits is inevitable. A lot issues are set face challenges transition, oriented Albanian government’s endeavor maintain a...

We use a theoretical model and empirically-calibrated simulations of the automobile market to show how the traditional logic of Pigouvian taxation changes when consumers are inattentive to energy costs. Under inattention, there is a "Triple Dividend" from externality taxes: aside from reducing the provision of public bads and generating government revenue, they also reduce allocative ine¢ cienc...

In the last decade, voluntary environmental programs have increased considerably in scope. A novel use of these programs is to di¤use new technology in industry as means to improving their environmental outcomes. This paper tests whether the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Combined Heat-and-Power Partnership has encouraged the installation of CHP applications since its start in 2001. Two h...

In an e¤ort to reduce energy use, governments in the United States and many other countries subsidize energy e¢ cient lightbulbs or ban traditional incandescent bulbs. We evaluate one important rationale for these policies: that imperfect information or attentional biases cause consumers to purchase more incandescents than they would in their private optima. We formalize a model of consumer cho...

Based on data from a representative survey among more than 2200 households, this paper empirically examines the agreement to the German energy transition in total and to six single energy policy measures, which are components of this challenging national policy approach. Our micro-econometric analysis with uniand multivariate binary and ordered probit models reveals that both economic calculus ...