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A vision of the European energy future? : the impact of the German response to the Fukushima earthquake
Grossi, Luigi; Heim, Sven; Waterson, Michael - 2014
The German response to the Fukushima nuclear power plant incident was possibly the most significant change of policy towards nuclear power outside Japan, leading to a sudden and very significant shift in the underlying power generation structure in Germany. This provides a very useful natural...
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German nuclear phase-out policy : effects on European electricity wholesale prices, emission prices, conventional power plant investments and eletricity trade
Traber, Thure; Kemfert, Claudia - 2012
The German decision to finally phase-out nuclear electricity has led to a debate on its effects on electricity prices, emission prices in the European emission trading system, as well as on international electricity trade. We investigate these effects with a Electricity market model for Europe...
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The unemployment impact of product and labour market regulation : evidence from European countries
Piton, Céline; Rycx, François - 2018
This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment using data for 24 European countries over the period 1998-2013. Controlling for country-fixed effects, endogeneity and a large set of covariates, results show that product market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011871988
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Latin versus European power : a tale of two market reforms
Mennel, Tim (contributor);  … - 2007
follows a path of full liberalization, facing, however, great difficulties in achieving unbundling of vertically integrated …, enacting regulation to ensure household consumer protection and security of supply. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003608096
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Implications of network convergence on local access regulation in the US and the EU
Vanberg, Margit A. (contributor) - 2007
This paper provides an overview of telecommunications regulation in the U.S. and in Europe. For each region the history … the question of how unbundling regulations in the local access market have evolved in parallel to the convergence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003480089
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The impact of policy measures on future power generation portfolio and infrastructure : a combined electricity and CCTS investment and dispatch model (ELCO)
Mendelevitch, Roman; Oei, Pao-Yu - 2015
This paper presents a general electricity-CO2 (ELCO) modeling framework that is able to simulate interactions of the energy-only market with different forms for national policy measures. We set up a two sector model where players can invest into various types of generation technologies including...
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Privatisation in developing countries : what are the lessons of recent experience?
Estrin, Saul; Pelletier, Adeline - 2016
This paper reviews recent empirical evidence on privatisation in developing countries. Particular emphasis is placed on new areas of research such as the distributional impacts of privatisation. Overall, the literature now reflects a more cautious and nuanced evaluation of privatisation. Thus it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571943
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The impact of regulation on innovation
Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Van Reenen, John - 2021
Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable ….4% lower due to the regulation, a 2.2% consumption equivalent welfare loss. Four-fifths of this loss is due to lower innovation … changes in the direction of R&D, and find that regulation's negative effects only matter for incremental innovation (as …
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Impacts of the German support for renewable energy on electricity prices, emissions and profits : an analysis based on a European electricity market model
Traber, Thure (contributor); Kemfert, Claudia (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003577403
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Tradable SO2-permits in the European Union : a practicable scheme for public utilities
Brockmann, Karl Ludwig; Koschel, Henrike; Schmidt, … - 1998
In this paper, a practicable scheme of SO2-emission permits for European power producers is developed. Background is the second UN-ECE Sulphur Protocol from 1994 (Protocol of Oslo). After discussing some theoretical models of spatially differentiated permit schemes, evaluating the U.S. Acid Rain...
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