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Environmental taxation in the Bertrand differentiated duopoly: New insights Bertrand差异化双寡头垄断中的环境税收:新见解

IF 2.9 3区经济学

Resource and Energy Economics Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2022.101329

Ghina Abdul Baki , Walid Marrouch

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引用次数: 1

Exposure to wind turbines, regional identity and the willingness to pay for regionally produced electricity 接触风力涡轮机，地区认同和愿意为地区生产的电力付费

IF 2.9 3区经济学

Resource and Energy Economics Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2022.101332

Elke D. Groh

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引用次数: 2

Rural access to electricity and welfare outcomes in Rwanda: Addressing issues of transitional heterogeneities and between and within gender disparities 卢旺达农村电力供应和福利成果:解决过渡性异质性以及性别差异之间和内部的问题

IF 2.9 3区经济学

Resource and Energy Economics Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2022.101333

Philip Kofi Adom , Aimable Nsabimana

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引用次数: 1

Entry, location, and optimal environmental policies 进入、位置和最优环境政策

IF 2.9 3区经济学

Resource and Energy Economics Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2022.101326

Manuel Estay , John K. Stranlund

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引用次数: 2

Energy transitions and technology change: “Leapfrogging” reconsidered 能源转型与技术变革:重新思考“跨越式发展”

IF 2.9 3区经济学

Resource and Energy Economics Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2022.101327

T. Robert Fetter

引用次数: 1

Optimal federal co-regulation of renewable energy deployment 可再生能源部署的最佳联邦共同监管

IF 2.9 3区经济学

Resource and Energy Economics Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2022.101318

Jan-Niklas Meier , Paul Lehmann

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引用次数: 3

Which “second-best” climate policies are best? Simulating cost-effective policy mixes for passenger vehicles 哪些“次优”气候政策是最好的?模拟乘用车的成本效益混合政策

IF 2.9 3区经济学

Resource and Energy Economics Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2022.101319

Chandan Bhardwaj , Jonn Axsen , David McCollum

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引用次数: 4

Could the environment be a normal good for you and an inferior good for me? A theory of context-dependent substitutability and needs 环境对你来说是正常的，对我来说是次等的吗?情境依赖性替代和需求理论

IF 2.9 3区经济学

Resource and Energy Economics Pub Date : 2022-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2022.101316

Marion Dupoux , Vincent Martinet

引用次数: 0

Corporate social responsibility, social optimum, and the environment-growth tradeoff 企业社会责任、社会最优与环境-增长权衡

IF 2.9 3区经济学

Resource and Energy Economics Pub Date : 2022-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2022.101311

Juin-Jen Chang , Jhy-Hwa Chen , Ming-Fang Tsai

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引用次数: 4

The type of power capacity matters for economic development – Evidence from a global panel 电力容量的类型对经济发展至关重要——来自一个全球小组的证据

IF 2.9 3区经济学

Resource and Energy Economics Pub Date : 2022-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2022.101313

Lorenzo Montrone , Jan Christoph Steckel , Matthias Kalkuhl

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