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Does the stick make the carrot more attractive? : state mandates and uptake of renewable heating technologies

Achtnicht, Martin; Germeshausen, Robert; Graevenitz, … - 2017 - Version: 8 December 2017

uptake of renewable heating systems, we use unique data on a federal government subsidy scheme and exploit geographic …

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Feed-In Tariffs for Renewable Energy and WTO Subsidy Rules : An Initial Legal Review

Wilke, Marie - 2014

) subsidy rules. By examining the functioning of the FIT programmes implemented by the Canadian province of Ontario, Germany and … the United Kingdom (UK) the paper explores how current subsidy rules may treat FIT programmes. The issue formally entered … and amounts to an illegal subsidy. In particular this decision to ﬁle the dispute under the WTO’s subsidy accord has …

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Renewable Energy Subsidies : Second-Best Policy or Fatal Aberration for Mitigation?

Kalkuhl, Matthias; Edenhofer, Ottmar; Lessmann, Kai - 2011

subsidy and compare the resulting welfare level with an efficient first-best carbon pricing policy. If carbon pricing is …, we show that small deviations from the second-best subsidy can lead to strong increases in emissions and consumption …

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Willingness-to-Pay for Energy Conservation and Free-Ridership on Subsidization - Evidence from Germany

Grösche, Peter; Vance, Colin - 2015

Understanding the determinants of home-efficiency improvements is significant to a range of energy policy issues, including the reduction of fossil fuel use and environmental protection. This paper analyzes retrofit choices by assembling a unique data set merging a nationwide household survey...

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Public Transit Bus Procurement : The Role of Energy Prices, Regulation and Federal Subsidies

Li, Shanjun; Kahn, Matthew E.; Nickelsburg, Jerry - 2020

The U.S. public transit system represents a multi-billion dollar industry that provides essential transit services to millions of urban residents. We study the market for new transit buses that features a set of non-profit transit agencies purchasing buses primarily from a few domestic bus...

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Subsidy Regulation in WTO Law : Some Implications for Fossil Fuels and Renewable Energy

Marhold, Anna-Alexandra - 2017

This contribution discusses WTO subsidies disciplines in the context of the energy sector. After laying out the relevant disciplines, it will discuss the paradox of WTO law with respect to subsidies towards fossil fuels vis-à-vis those towards renewable energy. It is clear that subsidies on...

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The Implementation of the European Green Deal – Tensions between a Market-Based Approach and State Aid for Renewables

Granat, Aleksandra; Kozak, Malgorzata - 2022

Energy policies which promote a green transition are of particular interest to the European Commission and are one of the key elements of the European Green Deal. This article takes a close look at the interplay and tensions between two theoretically separated frameworks, renewable energy law...

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Reducing Coal Subsidies and Trade Barriers : Their Contribution to Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Anderson, Kym; McKibbin, Warwick J. - 2013

International negotiations for an agreement to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases are unlikely to produce concrete and comprehensive policies for effective emission reductions in the near term, not least because the policy measures being considered are economically very costly to major...

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Fossil Fuels - At What Cost? Government Support for Upstream Oil and Gas Activities in Russia

Gerasimchuk, Ivetta - 2012

. At the federal level, the paper identifies 30 such subsidy schemes in 2009 and 2010; and quantifies the value of 17 of …

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A theory of child targeting

Bargain, Olivier (contributor); Donni, Olivier (contributor) - 2007

of a price subsidy and of a cash benefit on child welfare are then derived. In particular, it is shown that 'favorable …

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