subsidies, and how changes in Russian gas consumption may affect its gas export to Europe. We also examine the importance of … Russian pipeline capacity to Europe, as well as impacts of hypothetical changes in Russian gas export behavior. For this … purpose, we use a detailed numerical model for the energy markets in Europe and Russia - LIBEMOD. Our results suggest that …

final energy consumption, and improved energy efficiency. We find that the renewable and energy-efficiency targets have been …

productive efficiency, in the public sector. We focus on reforms aiming to establish parity between work conditions in the public …

by the Ramsey government not only increases aggregate efficiency, but it also decreases inequality. This result is in … contrast to common view and policy practice. -- user fees ; Ramsey taxation ; efficiency ; inequality …

government share in GDP; and as a measure of government efficiency, we construct an index by following the methodology of Afonso … efficiency. Specifically, while a larger size of government is bad for incentives when one ignores efficiency, the results change … drastically when government efficiency is also taken into account. Only when our measure of size exceeds our measure of efficiency …

providers cannot beat private providers in terms of aggregate efficiency. We finally design a transfer scheme that can make a …