The aim of this work is to evaluate the impact of domestic and global biofuel policies on Germany's agricultural sector. The central part of our study is divided into four sections. Section 2 presents in detail the issues that make biofuels a debated topic in today's economic policies....

Dieser Bericht stellt ausgewählte Ergebnisse der Thünen-Baseline 2015 - 2025 sowie die zugrun-de liegenden Annahmen dar. Für die Erstellung der Thünen-Baseline wurden mehrere agraröko-nomische Modellen im Verbund eingesetzt. Die Projektionen beruhen auf den im Juli 2015 vorlie-genden Daten...

Dieser Bericht stellt ausgewählte Ergebnisse der Thünen-Baseline 2017 - 2027 sowie die zugrunde liegenden Annahmen dar. Für die Erstellung der Thünen-Baseline wurden mehrere agrarökonomische Modelle im Verbund eingesetzt. Die Projektionen beruhen auf den im Juni 2017 vorliegenden Daten und...

Dieser Bericht stellt ausgewählte Ergebnisse der Thünen-Baseline 2020 2030 sowie die zugrunde liegenden Annahmen dar. Die Thünen-Baseline beschreibt die erwarteten Entwicklungen auf den Agrarmärkten bei einer Beibehaltung der derzeitigen Agrarpolitik und Umsetzung bereits beschlossener...

Under perfect competition on the output market, first best technology subsidies in the presence of learning by doing are justified by knowledge spill overs that are not accounted for by individual companies. First best output subsidies are thus depending directly on the learning effects and are,...

Because of economic growth and a strong increase in global energy demand the demand for fossil fuels and therefore also greenhouse gas emissions are increasing, although climate policy should lead to the opposite effect. The coal market is of special relevance as coal is available in many...

EMELIE-ESY is a partial equilibrium model with focus on electricity markets. Private investors optimize their generation capacity investment and dispatch over the horizon 2010 to 2050. In the framework of the Energy Modeling Forum 28, we investigate how climate policy regimes affect market...

The German support for renewable energies in the electricity sector is based on the feed-in tariff for investors that grants guaranteed revenues for their renewable energy supply. Corresponding to differences of granted tariffs and respective market values, a surcharge on consumption covers...

The German decision to finally phase-out nuclear electricity has led to a debate on its effects on electricity prices, emission prices in the European emission trading system, as well as on international electricity trade. We investigate these effects with a Electricity market model for Europe...