Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research: Recent submissions

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    • Risk and Responsibility Sharing in Nuclear Spent Fuel Management 

      De Roo, Guillaume (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2010-06)
      With the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, the responsibility of American utilities in the long-term management of spent nuclear fuel was limited to the payment of a fee. This narrow involvement did not result in faster ...

    • Taxation and the Extraction of Exhaustible Resources: Evidence From California Oil Production 

      Rao, Nirupama S. (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Research Policy, 2010-04)
      Rapid increases in oil prices in 2008 led some to call for special taxes on the oil industry. Because oil is an exhaustible resource, however, the effects of excise taxes on production or on reported producer profits may ...

    • Uncertainty and Energy Saving Investments 

      Murto, Pauli; Liski, Matti (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Research Policy, 2010-03)
      Energy costs are notoriously uncertain but what is the effect of this on energysaving investments? We find that real-option frictions imply a novel equilibrium response to increasing but uncertain energy costs: early ...