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Efficient and equitable policy design : taxing energy use or promoting energy savings?

Landis, Florian; Rausch, Sebastian; Kosch, Mirjam; … - In: The energy journal 40 (2019) 1, pp. 73-104

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Incentives to work and performance in the public sector

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Philippopulos, Apostolēs; … - 2015

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

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Green serves the dirtiest : on the interaction between Black and Green Quotas

Böhringer, Christoph; Rosendahl, Knut Einar - 2009

Tradable black (CO2) and green (renewables) quotas gain in popularity and stringency within climate policies of many OECD countries. The overlapping regulation through both instruments, however, may have important adverse economic implications. Based on stylized theoretical analysis and...

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The impacts of feed-in tariffs on innovation : empirical evidence from Germany

Böhringer, Christoph; Cuntz, Alexander; Harhoff, Dietmar; … - 2014

Feed-in tariffs under the Renewable Energy Sources Act, the so-called Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz (EEG), have triggered a massive expansion of electricity from renewable energy sources in Germany over the last decade. The increase in non-competitive renewable power generation though went hand in...

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Economic impacts of renewable energy production in Germany

Böhringer, Christoph; Landis, Florian; Tovar Reaños, … - In: The energy journal 38 (2017), pp. 189-209

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Are user fees really regressive?

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Philippopulos, Apostolēs - 2012

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 …

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The role of government in anti-social redistributive activities

Angelopoulos, Konstantinos (contributor); … - 2005

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 …

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Public providers, versus private providers, of public goods : a general equilibrium study of the role of the state

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Philippopulos, Apostolēs; … - 2011

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

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Rent-seeking competition from state coffers : a calibrated DSGE model of the euro area

Angelopoulos, Konstantinos (contributor); … - 2006

This paper incorporates an uncoordinated struggle for extra fiscal favors into an otherwise standard Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium model. This reflects the popular belief that interest groups compete for privileged transfers and tax treatment at the expense of the general public...

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Monetary union, even higher integration, or back to national currencies?

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Philippopulos, Apostolēs; … - 2016

This paper quantifies the welfare differences among a monetary union, flexible exchange rates (economic disintegration) and a monetary plus fiscal transfer union (higher economic integration). The vehicle of analysis is a medium-scale New Keynesian DSGE model consisting of two heterogeneous...

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