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Going Offshore : Investments in German Wind Energy Under Uncertainty
Chen, Yu-Fu - 2015
Employing a continuous-time real options modeling framework, this paper scrutinizes the incentives to invest in German offshore wind farms. The focus of the analysis is the mode of action of the German feed-in tariff system for offshore wind energy deployment. The numerical results reveal that...
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Gone with the Wind? An Empirical Analysis of the Renewable Energy Rent Transfer
Liski, Matti - 2017
Subsidies to renewable energy are costly and contentious. We estimate the reduction in prices that follows from the subsidized entry of wind power in the Nordic electricity market. A relatively small-scale entry of renewables leads to a large-scale transfer of surplus from the incumbent...
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The Learning Process and Technological Change in Wind Power : Evidence from China's CDM Wind Projects
Tang, Tian - 2014
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a project-based carbon trade mechanism that subsidizes the users of climate-friendly technologies and encourages technology transfer. The CDM has provided financial support for a large share of Chinese wind projects since 2002. Using pooled...
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How Does the Market Use Citation Data? The Hirsch Index in Economics
Ellison, Glenn - 2010
A large literature following Hirsch (2005) has proposed citation-based indexes that could be used to rank academics. This paper examines how well several such indexes match labor market outcomes using data on the citation records of young tenured economists at 25 U.S. departments. Variants of...
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Recent Trends in Co-Authorship in Economics : Evidence from RePEc
Rath, Katharina - 2015
This articles investigates the recent trends in co-authorship in economics. Using data from more than 700.000 journal …
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General Equilibrium with Contracts
Kwon, Suehyun - 2017
This paper studies general equilibrium when workers in the economy are also consumers of final goods. Once a firm and a worker are matched, there is a standard moral hazard problem. However, the firm's profit depends on the price of the good the worker produces, and the price is determined by...
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A Concise Bibliography of Language Economics
Gazzola, Michele - 2015
to several categories of literature in language economics. It consolidates the respective literature lists used by the …
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Happiness of Economists
Feld, Lars P. - 2014
which the uncertainty created by the tenure system affects satisfaction varies with the contract terms. The effect is …
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The Political Economy of Sales Taxes and Sales Tax Exemptions
Militaru, Andreea - 2014
We analyze the choice politicians face when seeking votes from groups that lobby for sales tax rate decreases or from groups that lobby for certain tax exemptions, given the constraint that politician wants to raise a certain amount of revenue. Using the application of sales taxes and sales tax...
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Behavioral Political Economy : A Survey
Schnellenbach, Jan - 2014
the market: That's what Political Economy, understood as the application of economics to the study of political processes …-interested, unlike the benevolent despot of earlier models. History repeats itself with the rise of behavioral economics: Assuming … in a “benevolent” way. Recently, however, political economists have started to apply behavioral economics insights to the …
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