The harmonization and integration of separate national energy markets to an interconnected internal European market is … of two distinct national reforms in Germany - the phase-out of nuclear power plants after the Fukushima incident and the …. We also apply a novel approach to estimate the degree of market integration and find large differences between …

electricity retail markets. Consumers observe the baseline price of the incumbent and decide whether or not to search. Incumbent …

European Union. Regression results are provided for Western Germany, France, and Italy. It is shown that labour mobility is … highest in Germany, followed by France, and Italy. However, even in Germany, the accommodation of a shock to unemployment by …

first few quarters. This combination resulted in a major increase of imports from the main trading partners of West Germany … in other countries leading to a feedback on Germany. The paper provides a short overview over the basic model. The …

We estimate the impact of a feed-in tariff for renewable power on wind power investment in Germany at the county level … from 1996-2010 controlling for windiness and access to the electricity transmission grid. After the Renewable Energy Law …

German electricity spot market. This paper explores the theoretical basis for such an asymmetry in the context of a supply … studies incentive compatibility in the repeated game. It is new in its attempt to model asymmetric behaviour in a spot market …

structure in Germany. This provides a very useful natural experiment on the impact of increasing proportions of renewable …, partly caused by more frequent situations with unilateral market power. The price impact was also most significant in off …-peak hours, leading to changed investment incentives. There were no appreciable quantity effects on the market, such as power …