contribution in the area of fuel demand estimation. Especially in case of analyzing micro-data an often encountered problem in … demand estimation is the large number of zero-observations which poses problems for standard regression methods. The study …

-intensive branches. The study demonstrates that industrial end-user prices for gas and electricity in the EU have indeed gone up strongly …), particularly in the case of electricity and in the long run. However, these did not fully offset the energy price increase, so that …

A sufficient and constant supply of electricity is indispensable for the economic development of highly developed … transportation and the service sector all the way down to private households. Although the indispensability of energy and its …, the importance of renewable energy for the electricity supply and the innovativeness of the power industry in Germany, is …