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Germany taxes electricity use since 1999. The government granted reduced rates to energy intensive firms in the … manufacturing sector. We do not find any systematic, statistically significant effects of the electricity tax on firms' turnover …
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German manufacturing plants increase electricity use substantially and substitute it for fossil fuels, while we do not find …
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Germany taxes electricity use since 1999. The government granted reduced rates to energy intensive firms in the … manufacturing sector. We do not find any systematic, statistically significant effects of the electricity tax on firms' turnover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013025986
In this article, we investigate the heterogeneity in household electricity demand in Switzerland. We use a quantile regression approach in order to assess the impacts of electricity prices, income and other socio-demographic characteristics across consumer groups with increasing energy...
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Carbon emissions from German manufacturing have increased over the past decade, while carbon intensity (emissions per … the production composition in the German manufacturing sector is increasingly shifting towards less carbon intensive …
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Germany plays a pioneering role in replacing conventional power plants with renewable energy sources. While this is … heterogeneous labor for the German manufacturing sector. We use administrative linked employer-employee micro data combined with … manufacturing sector by 86,000 workers, a decline by 1.4 percent. …
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determinants of energy efficiency in the German manufacturing sector based on official firm-level production census data. By means … efficiency in most industries of the German manufacturing sector. Furthermore, we find that in most industries exporting and …
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determinants of energy efficiency in the German manufacturing sector based on official firm-level production census data. By means … efficiency in most industries of the German manufacturing sector. Furthermore, we find that in most industries exporting and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011764971
We analyze the pass-through of cost changes to retail tariffs in the German electricity market over the 2007 to 2014 period. We find an average pass-through rate of around 60%, which significantly varies with demand factors: while the pass-through rate to baseline tariffs, where firms have...
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study, we investigate a counterfactual scenario without accelerated nuclear phase-out in Germany after the Fukushima nuclear …
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