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...

In order to promote the sustainable growth of renewable energies in the German heat market, strong political impulses equivalent to the German Renewable Energy Sources Act for the electrical power market and the exemption of biodiesel from the German petroleum tax for the fuel market are...