Technology policy is the most widespread form of climate policy and is often preferred over seemingly efficient carbon pricing. We propose a new explanation for this observation: gains that predominantly accrue to households with large capital assets and that influence majority decisions in...

Government support for green technologies and renewable energy in particular has become an integral cornerstone of economic policy for most industrialized economies. Due to competitive price determination and supposedly higher efficiency, auctions have in recent years widely succeeded...

I study the impact of subsidies for Plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEV) on carbon emissions. I show that subsidizing innovations without considering consumer behavior can harm the environment. I provide descriptive evidence on charging instances of PHEV and combine it with a structural model of...

This paper analyses an electricity market in which a monopolist that employs fossil-fuel base-load and peak-load technologies competes against a fringe of renewable energy (RE) generators. The optimal technology and electricity mix can be decentralised by levying technology-dependent capacity...

Der schnelle Anstieg der Zinsen in Kombination mit den stark gestiegenen Baukosten hat nicht nur den Wohnungsbau in Deutschland ausgebremst, sondern auch die Zielkonflikte zwischen erschwinglichem Wohnen und Klimaschutz offengelegt. Höhere energetische Standards steigern die Erstellungskosten...

Die Reform des Gebäudeenergiegesetzes zielt darauf ab, den Anteil erneuerbarer Energienim Gebäudebereich zu erhöhen. Die vorgesehenen Maßnahmen, insbesondere der forcierteEinsatz von Wärmepumpen, sind jedoch ökologisch ineffektiv, da mögliche CO2-Einsparungenim Rahmen des nationalen...

This study examines whether the current discourses and debates at international level are aligned with Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 for i) affordable energy and ii) clean energy. Guided by the overarching vision of SDG7, this study assumes that both "affordably energy" and "clean energy"...

The achievement of short-term energy savings through changes in user consumption behaviour is one of the main directions addressed by the REPowerEU program. This paper investigates the perspective of increasing energy efficiency at the level of domestic consumers in Romania by adopting energy...