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The cost of phasing out nuclear power: A quantitative assessment of alternative scenarios for Germany
Böhringer, Christoph; Hoffmann, Tim; Vögele, Stefan - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010527505
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Nuclear decommissioning profile: USA
Bah, Muhammad Maladoh - 2023
This report provides an overview of the legal framework and regulation for the decommissioning of NPPs in the U.S., as well as give an indication on current cost estimates and their accuracy. Additionally, it shows the current progress of the decommissioning process.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014374462
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Income mobility of individuals in China and the United States
Khor, Niny; Pencavel, John H. - 2006
Though much has been written about annual income inequality in China, little research has been conducted on longer run … measures of income inequality and on income mobility. This paper compares income mobility of urban individuals in China and the … misleading indicators of long-run income inequality? How much income mobility was there in China in the first half of the 1990s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276243
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Trading with Asia's Giants
Bosworth, Barry; Collins, Susan M.; Flaaen, Aaron - 2008
competitiveness in the region. The purpose of this paper is to examine the patterns of U.S. trade relationships with China and India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807626
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A fair share: Burden-sharing preferences in the United States and China
Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Krupnick, Alan; … - 2010
in the two largest CO2-emitting countries: the United States and China. We asked respondents about their preferences for … preferences was much stronger in China, suggesting that how mitigation costs are shared across countries is more important there. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286457
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Scenarios for an energy policy concept of the German government
Nagl, Stephan; Fürsch, Michaela; Paulus, Moritz; … - 2010
In this article we demonstrate how challenging greenhouse gas reduction targets of up to 95% until 2050 can be achieved in the German electricity sector.1 In the analysis, we focus on the main requirements to reach such challenging targets. To account for interdependencies between the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293357
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Innovation benefits from nuclear phase-out: Can they compensate the costs?
De Cian, Enrica; Carrara, Samuel; Tavoni, Massimo - 2012
This paper investigates whether an inefficient allocation of abatement, due to constraints on the use of currently available low carbon mitigation options, can promote innovation in new technologies and eventually generate welfare gains. We focus on the case of nuclear power phase out, when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294322
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The cost of phasing out nuclear power: a quantitative assessment of alternative scenarios for Germany
Böhringer, Christoph; Hoffmann, Tim; Vögele, Stefan - 2000
In the debate on the premature phase-out of nuclear power generation in Germany, there is an intense dispute on the effective operating time for the existing nuclear power plants. This paper addresses the question of how alternative phase-out regulations affect both the magnitude of total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297686
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Economic impacts of a premature nuclear phase-out in Switzerland
Böhringer, Christoph; Wickart, Marcel; Müller, Andre - 2001
This paper investigates the economic impacts of two policy proposals: "Strom ohne Atom" (SOA) and "Moratorium Plus" (MOP), both of which contain a premature phase-out of nuclear power in Switzerland. While MOP restricts business-as-usual operation time of existing nuclear power plants to 40...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297805
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Implications of diverging social and private discount rates for investments in the German power industry: a new case for nuclear energy?
Heinzel, Christoph - 2008
For power-plant investments, utilities rely after liberalisation on private financial markets, which are in general distorted. The (related) split of social and private time-preference rates provides a new reason for a welfare-enhancing policy intervention, complementary to environmental policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300612