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Voters prefer more qualified mayors, but does it matter for public finances? Evidence for Germany

Freier, Ronny; Thomasius, Sebastian - 2012

This paper studies the importance of politician's qualification, in terms of education and experience, for fiscal outcomes. The analysis is based on a large panel for 2,031 German municipalities for which we have collected information on municipal budgets as well as the election results and...

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Central versus Local Education Finance: A Political Economy Approach

Borck, Rainald - 2006

This paper models voters' preferences over central versus local education policies when there are private alternatives. Education is financed by income taxes and individuals are mobile between communities. Public education levels are chosen by majority vote. Contrary to conventional wisdom,...

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Parties Matter in Allocating Expenditures: Evidence from Germany

Potrafke, Niklas - 2006

I test if parties matter with respect to the allocation of public expenditures in Germany. Considering the allocation of rights and duties due to the federal structure, two econometric models are estimated. First, a SURE model analyses spending at the federal level for the period from 1950 to...

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A welfare analysis of the electricity transmission regulatory regime in Germany

Kemfert, Claudia; Kunz, Friedrich; Rosellón, Juan - 2015

We analyze the current regulatory regime for electricity transmission in Germany, which combines network planning with …

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The impact of policy measures on future power generation portfolio and infrastructure: A combined electricity and CCTS investment and dispatch model (ELCO)

Mendelevitch, Roman; Oei, Pao-Yu - 2015

This paper presents a general electricity-CO2 (ELCO) modeling framework that is able to simulate interactions of the … profits based on variable, fixed and investment costs as well as the price of electricity, CO2 abatement cost and other …. The model framework allows for regional disaggregation and features simplified electricity and CO2 pipeline networks. The …

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Do benefits from dynamic tariffing rise? Welfare effects of real-time pricing under carbon-tax-induced variable renewable energy supply

Gambardella, Christian; Pahle, Michael; Schill, Wolf-Peter - 2016

Common intuition holds that retail real-time pricing (RTP) of electricity demand should become more beneficial in …, we test this intuition by simulating long-run electricity market equilibria with carbon-tax-induced VRE investment and …

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Regulated expansion of electricity transmission networks: The effects of fluctuating demand and wind generation

Schill, Wolf-Peter; Rosellón, Juan; Egerer, Jonas - 2011

We study the performance of different regulatory approaches for the expansion of electricity transmission networks in …

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Intraday markets for power: Discretizing the continuous trading?

Neuhoff, Karsten; Ritter, Nolan; Salah-Abou-El-Enien, Aymen - 2016

A fundamental question regarding the design of electricity markets is whether adding auctions to the continuous …

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Coordinating cross-country congestion management

Kunz, Friedrich; Zerrahn, Alexander - 2016

We employ a detailed two-stage model to simulate the operation of the Central Eastern European electricity market and …

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Technology policy and market structure: Evidence from the power sector

Bohland, Moritz; Schwenen, Sebastian - 2020

from electricity markets, where regulators have implemented different policies to subsidize clean energy. Building on a …

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