Levelling the Playing Field: On the Missing Role of Network Externality in Designing Renewable Energy Technology Deployment Policies
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- Wei Jin & ZhongXiang Zhang, 2015. "Levelling the playing field: On the missing role of network externality in designing renewable energy technology deployment policies," CCEP Working Papers 1509, Centre for Climate & Energy Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University.
- Jin, Wei & Zhang, ZhongXiang, 2015. "Levelling the Playing Field: On the Missing Role of Network Externality in Designing Renewable Energy Technology Deployment Policies," Climate Change and Sustainable Development 208433, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM).
- Jin, Wei & Zhang, ZhongXiang, 2015. "Levelling the playing field: On the missing role of network externality in designing renewable energy technology deployment policies," Working Papers 249514, Australian National University, Centre for Climate Economics & Policy.
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Keywords
Renewable Energy Deployment; Energy Technology Adoption; Network Externality; Climate Technology Policies;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- Q41 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Demand and Supply; Prices
- Q42 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Alternative Energy Sources
- Q48 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Government Policy
- Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
- Q55 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Technological Innovation
- Q58 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Government Policy
- H23 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
- O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENE-2015-12-12 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2015-12-12 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-NET-2015-12-12 (Network Economics)
- NEP-REG-2015-12-12 (Regulation)
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