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Badunenko, Oleg (contributor); Fritsch, Michael (contributor) - 2008

This paper investigates the factors that explain the level and dynamics of manufacturing firm productive efficiency. In our empirical analysis, we use a unique sample of about 39,000 firms in 256 industries from the German Cost Structure Census over the years 1992-2005. We estimate the...

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Allocative efficiency measurement revisited : do we really need input prices?

Badunenko, Oleg (contributor); Fritsch, Michael (contributor) - 2006

enterprises from the chemical industry in Germany. …

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Gone with the wind? : electricity market prices and incentives to invest in thermal power plants under increasing wind energy supply

Traber, Thure (contributor); Kemfert, Claudia (contributor) - 2009

The increased wind energy supplied to many electricity markets around the world has to be balanced by reliable back up units or other complementary measures when wind conditions are low. At the same time wind energy impacts both, the utilization of thermal power plants and the market prices....

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The impact of domestic and global biofuel mandates on the German agricultural sector

Sorda, Giovanni; Banse, Martin; Kemfert, Claudia - 2009

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The effect of market power on electricity storage utilization : the case of pumped hydro storage in Germany

Schill, Wolf-Peter; Kemfert, Claudia - 2009

. -- Electricity market modeling ; pumped hydro storage ; strategic storage ; oligopoly ; market power ; Germany ; ElStorM …

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Refunding ETS-proceeds to spur the diffusion of renewable energies : an analysis based on the dynamic oligopolistic electricity market model EMELIE

Traber, Thure; Kemfert, Claudia - 2009

We use a quantitative electricity market model to analyze the welfare effects of refunding a share of the emission trading proceeds to support renewable energy technologies that are subject to experience effects. We compare effects of supporting renewable energies under both perfect and...

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Impacts of the German support for renewable energy on electricity prices, emissions and profits : an analysis based on a European electricity market model

Traber, Thure (contributor); Kemfert, Claudia (contributor) - 2007

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Can the German electricity market benefit from the EU enlargement? : Results of scenario calculations using the EMELIE model

Horn, Manfred (contributor); Kemfert, Claudia (contributor); … - 2006

-certificats is assumed to remain high (€25/t). It is further assumed that Germany sticks to the aim to shut down nuclear power … Germany's electricity imports from France and the Czech Republic. With rising CO2 prices imports from France increase slightly …, as do Germany's electricity exports to Poland. In the open-market case (transport capacities are increased and nuclear …

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German nuclear phase-out policy : effects on European electricity wholesale prices, emission prices, conventional power plant investments and eletricity trade

Traber, Thure; Kemfert, Claudia - 2012

effects with a Electricity market model for Europe with investments in power plants under oligopolistic conditions in Germany …

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The long persistence of regional entrepreneurship culture : Germany 1925 - 2005

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2012

We investigate the persistence of levels of self-employment and new business formation in different time periods and under different framework conditions. The analysis shows that high levels of regional self-employment and new business formation tend to be persistent for periods as long as 80...

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