In this paper, we acknowledge that the mitigation of and adaptation to climate change have differential fiscal impacts. Whereas mitigation typically raises fiscal revenues, adaptation is costly to the taxpayer and to a greater extent the more distortionary the tax system is. In an OLG model with...

This paper aims at characterizing the conditions of wind power deployment in order to infer a carbon price level that would provide wind power with comparable advantage over fossil fuel technologies as effective wind support policies. The analysis is conducted on Danish data from 2000 to 2010,...

We develop a model of optimal carbon taxation and redistribution taking into account horizontal equity concerns by considering heterogeneous energy efficiencies. By deriving first- and second-best rules for policy instruments including carbon taxes, transfers and energy subsidies, we then...

Es gibt viel Literatur über Energiewende und Klimaschutz, beispielsweise Einführungen wie Thomas Unnerstall, Thomas Kästner oder Christian Holler. Auch das technisch-naturwissenschaftliche Standardwerk "Erneuerbare Energien" von Volker Quaschning ist jetzt in 5. Auflage erschienen....