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The Role of Fiscal Instruments in Environmental Policy
Kosonen, Katri - 2009
Environmental protection is one of Europe's key values. The EU has set clear policy objectives to achieve its environmental goals. The EU has favoured market-based instruments, among which fiscal instruments to tackle the climate change problem. This paper takes a policy-making perspective and...
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Carbon Content of Electricity Futures in Phase II of the EU ETS
Fell, Harrison G.; Hintermann, Beat; Vollebergh, Herman R.J - 2021
We estimate the relationship between electricity, fuel and carbon prices in Germany, France, the Netherlands, the Nord … increasing interaction between electricity and input prices on the one hand, and between electricity markets on the other. The …
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Green Tradable Certificates versus Feed-In Tariffs in the Promotion of Renewable Energy Shares
Requate, Tilman - 2015
energy sources for electricity production (RES-E). If an emission cap is the only policy target, an optimal mix consisting of …
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Powering Up Developing Countries Through Integration?
Auriol, Emmanuelle - 2012
Power market integration is analyzed in a two countries model with nationally regulated firms and costly public funds. If generation costs between the two countries are too similar negative business-stealing outweighs efficiency gains so that following integration welfare decreases in both...
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Complementary Bidding Mechanisms and Startup Costs in Electricity Markets
Reguant, Mar - 2014
time. In the context of electricity markets, I show how the auction structure and bidding data can be used to estimate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052093
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Can General Purpose Technology Theory Explain Economic Growth? Electrical Power as a Case Study
Ristuccia, Cristiano Andrea - 2015
economies? The paper develops a new comparative data set on the usage of electricity in the manufacturing sectors of the USA …
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A Look Upstream : Electricity Market Restructuring, Risk, Procurement Contracts and Efficiency
Di Maria, Corrado - 2015
of the electricity market in the U.S. as our case study, we find support for our theoretical predictions. Furthermore, we …
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Environmental and Technology Policy Options in the Electricity Sector: Interactions and Outcomes
Fischer, Carolyn; Newell, Richard G.; Preonas, Louis - CESifo - 2014
Myriad policy measures aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector, promote generation from … lower electricity prices. Even with multiple market failures, emissions pricing remains the single most cost …
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Did the Renewable Fuel Standard Shift Market Expectations of the Price of Ethanol?
Baumeister, Christiane - 2017
It is commonly believed that the response of the price of corn ethanol (and hence of the price of corn) to shifts in biofuel policies operates in part through market expectations and shifts in storage demand, yet to date it has proved difficult to measure these expectations and to empirically...
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Gone with the Wind? An Empirical Analysis of the Renewable Energy Rent Transfer
Liski, Matti - 2017
subsidized entry of wind power in the Nordic electricity market. A relatively small-scale entry of renewables leads to a large … the total electricity market expenditures. The subsidies generate net gains to consumers. We develop an approach to …
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