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Network Diffusion of Green Technology in Post-Fukushima Japan
| Author | David Castells-Quintana, Alvaro Domínguez, Felipe Santos-Marquez |
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| Date of Publication | 2024. 3 |
| No. | 2024-02 |
| Download | 260KB |
Contents Introduction
We study the diffusion of adoptions of green technologies in Japan after the 2011 Fukushima incident. We find that, on average, munici-palities within a 120 km radius of a given nuclear power plant adopted green technology at a higher rate than those outside that radius. We then rely on a network diffusion model to analyze the direction, speed, and order in which municipalities adopted said technology. Next, we perform a counterfactual analysis by targeting key spreaders to alter the diffusion process. Finally, we propose a novel targeting method accounting for possible “bottlenecks” preventing the propagation pro-cess in the network.