This volume was prepared by Luise Röpke while she was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes three self-contained chapters about aspects of the integration of new...

This volume was prepared by Luise Röpke while she was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes three self-contained chapters about aspects of the integration of new...

Investments in renewable energy play a key role in achieving global climate goals. Favourable policies have attracted a lot of private capital to solar and wind technologies from a wide range of investors in the last decade. In the meantime, the costs of these technologies have declined...