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The German Energiewende under attack : is there an irrational Sonderweg?

Gawel, Erik; Strunz, Sebastian; Lehmann, Paul - 2012

The German energy transition repeatedly faces harsh critiques questioning its economic and environmental merit. This article defends the Energiewende and argues that Germany has chosen a rational and particularly forceful approach to securing sustainable energy supply. Though current...

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Power system transformation toward renewables : investment scenarios for Germany

Egerer, Jonas; Schill, Wolf-Peter - 2014

We analyze distinctive investment scenarios for the integration of fluctuating renewables in the German power system. Using a combined model for dispatch, transmission, and investment, three different investment options are considered, including gas-fired power plants, pumped hydro storage, and...

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Pollution-reducing infrastructure and urban environmental policy

Quaas, Martin F. - 2005

Based on a case study on Bombay, we argue that urban infrastructure, like the sewage system and the municipal waste collection, is an important instrument for urban environmental policy. We develop a spatial general equilibrium model of a monocentric city, where infrastructure serves as a public...

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Knowledge accumulation from public renewable energy R&D in the European Union : converging or diverging trends?

Grafström, Jonas; Söderholm, Patrik; Gawel, Erik; … - 2017

Bottom-up processes of policy convergence are increasingly discussed as a substitute for the absence of supranational …-up convergence? In order to answer this question, we first construct country-specific R&D-based knowledge stocks, and then … Member States over the time period 1990-2012 is employed to test for the presence of conditional â-convergence using a bias …

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Raumentwicklung im Spannungsfeld zwischen Wachstum und Schrumpfung : was können überregionale Partnerschaften leisten?

Pennekamp, Sandra - 2010

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Causes of persistent productivity differences in the West German states in the period from 1950 to 1990

Waidlein, Nicole - 2011

Since the Second World War the West German states show persistent differences in their standard of living. The explanation of the incomplete catching-up process within West Germany is of crucial interest. After identifying productivity as the major growth driving force, this paper investigates...

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