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Governments wishing to encourage the private sector provision of a public good can choose amongst a wide variety of economic instruments. This paper analyses how governments in the EU(15) countries have succeeded in stimulating investment in wind turbines between 1985 and 2000, using national...
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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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