This article seeks to explain why EC Members in 1990 delegated competences in the coordination of TACIS - a technical assistance programme with energy related aspects for the former Soviet Union - to the Commission, and to determine whether this institution succeeded in exerting an independent...

Nach der Liberalisierung der Energiewirtschaft im Jahr 1998 steht die Branche hierzulande vor einer weiteren Zäsur. Im Angesicht der Atomkatastrophe von Fukushima nahm die Bundesregierung im Sommer 2011 in einer ungewöhnlichen politischen Kehrtwende ihren kurz zuvor noch verabschiedeten...

Economic theory suggests that with a pollution externality and learning spillovers related to renewable energy technologies, the optimal climate policy mix includes an emissions policy and an output subsidy to the learning industry. Instead of output subsidies, feed-in tariffs are often...