Sunday, July 5, 2009

What Do the Mitigation Policy Models Assume about Interfuel Substitution? And is it Important?

In my previous blogpost I commented that the elasticity of substitutions between fuels and between energy and capital were likely to be very important in estimates of the costs of emissions reduction policies. I've been trying to find support for, or evidence against, this hypothesis.Bhattacharya (1996) writes: "It is generally agreed that the elasticity values are the single most important

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