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The harmonization and integration of separate national energy markets to an interconnected internal European market is a top priority of the European Commission. However, as energy policy largely remains subject to national sovereignty, a higher degree of integration can cause unilateral...
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-peak hours, leading to changed investment incentives. There were no appreciable quantity effects on the market, such as power …-out decision by the German government has significantly affected electricity prices and thus competitiveness in neighbouring …
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-peak hours, leading to changed investment incentives. There were no appreciable quantity effects on the market, such as power …-out decision by the German government has significantly affected electricity prices and thus competitiveness in neighbouring …
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(electricity and heating) in Germany. Using official expenditure data from 1993 to 2008, we estimate an expenditure elasticity for … electricity of 0.3988 and of 0.4055 for space heating. The own price elasticity for electricity is -0.4310 and -0.5008 in the case …
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We find an asymmetric pass-through of European Emission Allowance (EUA) prices to wholesale electricity prices in …
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We find an asymmetric pass-through of European Emission Allowance (EUA) prices to wholesale electricity prices in …
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into reductions in annual carbon emissions within the German electricity sector by around seven million tonnes in 2012 …. This represents about 2.4 percent of total annual carbon emissions in the German electricity sector and exemplifies the …
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While carbon taxes are generally seen as a rational policy response to climate change, knowledge about their performance from an expost perspective is still limited. This paper analyzes the emissions and cost impacts of the UK CPS, a carbon tax levied on all fossil-fired power plants. To...
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effects is still lacking. In this paper we study the effect of legal unbundling on grid charges in the German electricity …
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Germany taxes electricity use since 1999. The government granted reduced rates to energy intensive firms in the … industrial sector for addressing potentially adverse effects on firms' competitiveness. Firms that use more electricity than … deterministic and discontinuous function of electricity use. We identify and estimate the causal effects of these reduced marginal …
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