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    HEEP Hosts Online Bibliography of Research on the Energy-Efficiency Gap

    HEEP Hosts Online Bibliography of Research on the Energy-Efficiency Gap

    April 16, 2014

    HEEP has built an online bibliography of research literature on the "energy-efficiency gap." The "library" is publicly available here:

    www.zotero.org/groups/energy_efficiency_gap

    The bibliography is one product of an ongoing HEEP research project to better understand the energy-efficiency gap—that is, the apparent gap between the rate of adoption of energy-efficiency technology...

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    HEEP Co-Sponsors Workshop on the Energy-Efficiency Gap in Germany

    HEEP Co-Sponsors Workshop on the Energy-Efficiency Gap in Germany

    April 16, 2014

    HEEP and the Duke University Energy Initiative (DUEI) co-sponsored, with the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), a workshop on the energy-efficiency gap at ZEW's headquarters in Mannheim, Germany, on March 12-13, 2014. Eighteen economists, almost all based in Europe, actively conducting research on this topic participated. Presentations from the workshop (combined into one PDF file) are available...

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    The Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HEEP) develops innovative answers to today’s complex environmental issues, by providing a venue to bring together faculty and graduate students from across Harvard University engaged in research, teaching, and outreach in environmental, energy, and natural resource economics and related public policy. The program sponsors research projects, convenes workshops, and supports graduate education to further understanding of critical issues in environmental, natural resource, and energy economics and policy around the world.

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    The Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HEEP) does not grant degrees. Rather, students pursue a Ph.D. degree in Economics, Business Economics, Business Administration, Political Economy and Government, Public Policy, or Health Policy. Those whose dissertation interests focus on environmental and natural resource economics are invited to become Pre-Doctoral Fellows of HEEP.

    If you are interested in pursuing a Ph.D. degree at Harvard focused on environmental economics, we encourage you to contact one or more of the following doctoral programs directly.


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    The Value of 'Second-Best Solutions' to Global Warming

    June 23, 2014

    [Market Place ]...MIT economist Michael Greenstone proposes a different metaphor for second-best solutions. "I like to think of all of these policies as kind of a bank shot in the game of billiards," he says. "You’re shooting the ball to one side of the table, although the pocket is on the other."  So it’s harder to make your shot -- and you may hit something you don’t mean to.

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