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How Emission Certificate Allocations Distort Fossil Investments: The German Example
Pahle, Michael; Fan, Lin; Schill, Wolf-Peter - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
Despite political activities to foster a low-carbon energy transition, Germany currently sees a considerable number of new coal power plants being added to its power mix. There are several possible drivers for this "dash for coal", but it is widely accepted that windfall profits gained through...
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Stricter Enforcement May Increase Tax Evasion
Borck, Rainald - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002
This paper shows that stricter enforcement may increase tax evasion. Individuals vote on a linear income tax which is … used to finance lump sum transfers. Stricter enforcement may make redistributive taxation more attractive to the decisive …
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Employment Protection Legislation in Russia: Regional Enforcement and Labour Market Outcomes
Gimpelson, V.; Kapeliushnikov, R.; Lukiyanova, A. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
actual enforcement regime shapes incentives and constraints. Most of the studies exploring EPL effects on labour market … plausible for developing and transition economies. But if compliance and enforcement varies widely across regions/cities or …. The main idea of this paper is to reveal and describe cross-regional and inter-temporal variation in EPL enforcement and …
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Market Power Rents and Climate Change Mitigation: A Rationale for Coal Taxes?
Richter, Philipp M.; Mendelevitch, Roman; Jotzo, Frank - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015
In this paper we investigate the introduction of an export tax on steam coal levied by an individual country (Australia), or a group of major exporting countries. The policy motivation would be twofold: generating tax revenues against the background of improved terms-of-trade, while CO2...
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Facilitating Low-Carbon Investments: Lessons from Natural Gas
Neumann, Anne; Neuhoff, Karsten - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
Decarbonisation of energy and transport infrastructure requires significant private sector investments. The natural gas industry has demonstrated such large scale private sector infrastructure investment over the last decades, typically using long-term contractual arrangements. Are therefore...
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Europe's Twenties: A Study Using the WIATEC Model
Kemfert, Claudia; Kremers, Hans; Truong, Truong - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
In this paper, we use a computable general equilibrium model (WIATEC) to study the potential impact of implementing Europe's 20-20-20 climate policy. The results show that the economic costs of implementing the policy are only moderate and within the range of recent empirical evidence....
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Is There Still a Case for Merchant Interconnectors?: Insights from an Analysis of Welfare and Distributional Aspects of Options for Network Expansion in the Baltic Sea Region
Gerbaulet, Clemens; Weber, Alexander - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
Despite the ongoing appetite of financial investors for merchant investments into the European electricity network, the EC is reluctant to approve such undertakings, thus implicitly favoring regulated investments. Based on a two-level model, we analyze the impact of profit-maximizing merchant...
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A Profit-Maximizing Approach for Transmission Expansion Planning Using a Revenue-Cap Incentive Mechanism
Hesamzadeh, Mohammad Reza; Rosellón, Juan; Gabriel, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015
This paper proposes an incentive mechanism for transmission expansion planning. The mechanism is a bilevel program. The upper level is a profit-maximizing transmission company (Transco) which expands its transmission system while endogenously predicts and influences the generation investment....
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The Welfare Impact of Parallel Imports: A Structural Approach Applied to the German Market for Oral Anti-Diabetics
Duso, Tomaso; Herr, Annika; Suppliet, Moritz - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
We investigate the welfare impact of parallel imports using a large panel data set containing monthly information on sales, ex-factory prices, and further product characteristics for all 700 anti-diabetic drugs sold in Germany between 2004 and 2010. We estimate a two-stage nested logit model of...
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Increasing Block Tariffs in the Water Sector: An Interpretation in Terms of Social Preferences
Meran, Georg; Hirschhausen, Christian von - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
Many developing countries around the world apply progressive water tariffs, often structured in the form of discretely increasing block tariffs (IBTs). These tariffs have been criticized in the welfare economic literature due to their perceived inefficiency: many of the prices charged under IBTs...
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