Governments in the EU grant Rescue and Restructure Subsidies to bail out ailing firms. In an international asymmetric … Cournot duopoly we study effects of such subsidies on market structure and welfare. We adopt a common market setting, where …

damaging subsidies is lacking. Environmentally damaging subsidies are all kinds of direct and indirect subsidies aimed at … article develops a transparent method to determine the environmental impact of indirect government subsidies and derive policy … lessons. This method has been applied to several major subsidies in the Netherlands, namely in agriculture, energy, and …

We evaluate the effects of homogeneous subsidies granted for emission-free electricity generation on market outcomes … and social welfare. We use an analytical model to assess the conditions under which such subsidies increase efficiency of … wholesale energy and capacity markets. While the subsidies, even when combined with energy consumption taxes, cannot achieve …