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Breakthrough renewables and the green paradox

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We show how a fossil fuelmonopoly responds to a carbon-free substitute becoming available at some uncertain point in the future if demand is isoelastic and variable extraction costs are zero but upfront exploration investment costs have to be made. Before the breakthrough, oil reserves are depleted too rapidly; afterwards, the oil depletion rate drops and the oil price jumps up by discrete amounts. Subsidizing green R&D; to speed up the breakthrough speeds up oil extraction before the bre...

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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1628/001522118x15101422148687

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
Economics
Sub department:
OxCarre
Oxford college:
New College
Role:
Author
Publisher:
Mohr Siebeck
Journal:
FinanzArchiv More from this journal
Volume:
74
Issue:
1
Pages:
52-70
Publication date:
2018-03-01
Acceptance date:
2017-10-04
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ISSN:
1614-0974 and 0015-2218
Language:
English
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pubs:844094
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uuid:1308ee53-b28b-4145-8f40-e21a3d4e8509
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pubs:844094
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844094
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2019-05-16

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