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correcting R&D market failures, can be useful complements to emissions pricing, but ambitious renewable targets or subsidies seem …
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correcting R&D market failures, can be useful complements to emissions pricing, but ambitious renewable targets or subsidies seem …
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Industrial policy has long been criticized as subject to protectionist interests; accordingly, subsidies to domestic … offering production (upstream) and deployment (downstream) subsidies in producer countries, allowing that some of the … downstream market may lie in nonregulating third-party countries. Restraints on upstream subsidies erode global welfare when …
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In the first dispute on renewable energy to come to WTO dispute settlement, the domestic content requirement of Ontario's feed-in tariff was challenged as a discriminatory investment-related measure and as a prohibited import substitution subsidy. The panel and Appellate Body agreed that Canada...
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model of a future wholesale electricity market. We find that the optimal RE subsidies are technology-specific reflecting the … heterogeneous value for system integration. Differentiated RE subsidies reduce the curtailment of excess production, thereby …
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, and later a reduction. Optimal taxes and subsidies are derived both for the first-best case and for the case of a …
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In this paper, we employ a public choice perspective to analyze the development of policies for renewable energy sources (RES) in the EU in general and in Germany more specifically. In doing so, we explain the main characteristics of current RES policies in the EU by reference to the...
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