the market. We determine their effects on prices, welfare, and electricity generation for various cases with different … consumer surplus. If excess vehicle batteries can be used for storage, welfare results are reversed: generating firms suffer … to underutilize the storage capacity of the vehicle fleet, which may have negative welfare implications. In contrast, we …

In part I of this paper, we have presented a general treatment of the welfare effect of an eastern EU enlargement on … of the welfare and distributional consequences of enlargement. Focusing on the Austrian case, we therefore implement an … enlargement. Relying on a Hicksian welfare measure which incorporates both long-run effects and short-run adjustment, our …