Die EEG-Umlage legt die Finanzierung der Einspeisung von Ökostrom auf Stromverbraucher um. Um negativen Effekten auf die internationale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von deutschen Unternehmen entgegenzuwirken, nimmt die besondere Ausgleichsregelung des EEG stromintensive Unternehmen von der EEG-Umlage...

Tradable Permits – a Market-Based Allocation System for the Environment. Tradable Permits and Other Environmental Policy Instruments – Killing one Bird with two Stones. Tradable Permits – Ten Key Design Issues. Tradable Permits with Imperfect Monitoring. Emissions Trading with Greenhouse...

An inherent characteristic of renewable energy sources (RES)-based electricity generation systems is intermittency and non-controllability. Therefore, the prerequisite for a more significant use of RES within the energy system is the corresponding capacity of Electric Energy Storage (EES). The...

Renewable energy sources (RES) are mainly used in the electrical sector. Electricity is not a storable commodity. Hence it is necessary to produce the requested quantity and distribute it through the system in such a way as to ensure that electricity supply and demand are always evenly balanced....

China's natural gas demand is expected to grow rapidly in the coming decades. Therefore the potential of several pipelines from Russia and other CIS countries to China has been investigated. A two-step game-theoretic procedure for the problem formulation is proposed to assess the projects'...

Im Zuge der Energiewende taucht regelmäßig der Begriff des energiepolitischen Zieldreiecks auf. Dieses stellt den Zusammenhang zwischen der Versorgungssicherheit, der Wirtschaftlichkeit bzw. Bezahlbarkeit und der Umweltverträglichkeit der Energieversorgung her. Der Beitrag stellt den »Energy...

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...

Environmental issues and the management of natural resources have become a significant element of the binational relationship between Mexico and the United States during the last three decades. The environmental challenges now shaping the bilateral agenda for environmental cooperation are...

Empirical research in international trade has shown that exporting firms display higher productivity than their non-exporting competitors. This paper focuses on the relation between export and profitability. Our evidence on Italian exporting firms shows that exporting activity is not...