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The role of carbon pricing in promoting material recycling : a model of multi-market interactions

Xi, Sun - 2023

Recycling of raw material can make a significant contribution to achieving climate neutrality by 2050. Carbon pricing … can encourage material recycling by making it more competitive with waste incineration and primary material production … elastic, the supply of primary materials inelastic, and the emission intensity for recycling relatively high. In contrast …

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The economic value of plutonium

Hirschhausen, Christian R. von - 2022

Although plutonium has been studied by different disciplines (such as technology and innovation studies, political sciences) since its discovery, back in 1940 at the University of California (Berkeley), the resource and environmental economic literature is still relatively scarce; neither does the...

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Nuclear power as a system good : organizational models for production along the value-added chain

Wealer, Ben; Hirschhausen, Christian R. von - 2020

Due to its technical complexity, the co-production of electricity generation and nuclear weapons, and its high fixed costs, nuclear power is a particularly complex commodity, which poses unusual challenges for state economic (or industrial, defense, innovation etc.) policy. As in other sectors,...

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Nuclear power, democracy, development, and nuclear warheads : determinants for introducing nuclear power

Sorge, Lars; Neumann, Anne; Hirschhausen, Christian R. von - 2019

This paper analyzes the nature of democratic development in a nation on the process of introducing nuclear power over the period 1960 - 2017 for an unbalanced panel of 171 countries. Given the involved political process of introducing nuclear power and its political importance, as well as the...

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Economics of nuclear power plant investment : Monte Carlo simulations of generation III/III+ investment projects

Wealer, Ben; Bauer, Simon; Göke, Leonard; … - 2019

weighted average cost of capital, and discuss reasonable ranges and distributions of those parameters. We apply the model to ….e. expected net present values are highly negative, mainly driven by high construction costs, including capital costs, and …

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An assessment

Hirschhausen, Christian R. von - 2017

Nuclear power was one of the most important discoveries of the twentieth century, and it continues to play an important role in twenty-first century discussions about the future energy mix, climate change, innovation, proliferation, geopolitics, and many other crucial policy topics. This paper...

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Nuclear decommissioning after the German nuclear phase-out : an integrated view on new regulations and nuclear logistics

Scherwath, Tim; Wealer, Ben; Mendelevitch, Roman - 2019

With Germany's nuclear phase-out, 23 reactors need to be dismantled in the near future. Initiated by the dire financial situation of the affected utilities in 2014, a major discourse on ensuring financial liability led to a redistribution of liabilities and finances, with the utilities remaining...

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Productivity in electricity retail after market liberalisation : analysing the effects of ownership and firm's governance structure

Stiel, Caroline; Cullmann, Astrid; Nieswand, Maria - 2015

liberalisation, analyses the effect of ownership and governance structure by using a unique dataset of German electricity retailers … input choice. Ownership is controlled for in the law of motion for productivity. The results of the dataset used to validate … the model show that firm-level productivity did not increase after 2008 and that ownership had no effect on productivity …

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Productive efficiency and ownership when market restructuring affects production technologies

Cullmann, Astrid; Nieswand, Maria; Rechlitz, Julia - 2017

While the link between the ownership and productive efficiency of firms has been discussed extensively, no consensus … flexible production model to test for efficiency differences associated with ownership types while allowing the production to …

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Nested stochastic possibility frontiers with heterogeneous capital inputs

Erber, Georg (contributor); Madlener, Reinhard (contributor) - 2007

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