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Boston University 2025 Dissertation
Essays on the Economics of Decarbonization: Investment, Technical Change, and Uncertainty
Ian Anderson Kieffer
Kieffer, I. A., “Essays on the Economics of Decarbonization: Investment, Technical Change, and Uncertainty,” PhD dissertation, Boston University (2025).
Climate-risk discussion and innovation
Chapter 3 retrieves earnings-call passages combining climate-change terms with risk or uncertainty language using NL Analytics. The author identifies 891 sentence triples for content analysis of firms innovating in climate-related technologies, alongside climate-risk measures from Sautner and coauthors and separate patent data.