power plants using administrative micro data on power plants in Germany from 2003 to 2012. I find positive efficiency … 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 …

We find an asymmetric pass-through of European Emission Allowance (EUA) prices to wholesale electricity prices in … Germany and show that this asymmetry has disappeared in response to a report on investigations by the competition authority …

structure in Germany. This provides a very useful natural experiment on the impact of increasing proportions of renewable …-out decision by the German government has significantly affected electricity prices and thus competitiveness in neighbouring …

consists in reducing a pre-existing electricity levy that heterogeneously applies to the various sectors of the economy, the … electricity generation from renewable sources results in a 2% rise in electricity demand in the whole economy due to the reduced … electricity levy that electricity consumers have to pay to support renewable energy. This results in a 1.8% ETS carbon price …

manufacturing firms in Germany. Our difference-in-differences framework relies on several parametric conditioning strategies and …

of two distinct national reforms in Germany - the phase-out of nuclear power plants after the Fukushima incident and the …