This paper presents results from a randomized field experiment that examined the effects of mass media campaigns informing about a new technology on the adoption decisions of households in rural Senegal. While some communities were exposed to a campaign broadcasted on national radio that...

This paper presents results from a randomized field experiment that examined the effects of mass media campaigns informing about a new technology on the adoption decisions of households in rural Senegal. While some communities were exposed to a campaign broadcasted on national radio that...

This paper examines public investment in mass media campaigns aimed at stimulating market-led growth within the renewable energy sector in a developing country setting. We run a randomized field experiment to estimate the impact of a large-scale information campaign on the adoption of renewable...

This paper provides an explanation for why many information campaigns fail to affect decision-making. The authors experimentally show that a large information intervention about a profitable and climate-friendly household investment had limited effects if it only provided generic data. In...

This article demonstrates that the large feed-in tariffs currently guaranteed for solar electricity in Germany constitute a subsidization regime that, if extended to 2020, threatens to reach a level comparable to that of German hard coal production, a notoriously outstanding example of misguided...

This article revisits an analysis by Frondel, Ritter and Schmidt (2008) of Germany's Renewable Energy Act, which legislates a system of feed-in tariff s to promote the use of renewable energies. As in the original article, we argue that Germany's support scheme subsidizes renewable energy...

Die Solarenergiebranche boomt, besonders in Deutschland. Dies ist vor allem auf die Subventionierung durch das Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz (EEG) zurückzuführen, das die heimische Nachfrage nach Solarenergie jenseits von Effizienzüberlegungen künstlich anheizt. Im Zuge der möglicherweise...

Die Strompreise kennen seit Anfang des neuen Jahrtausends in Deutschland nur eine Richtung: nach oben. Die Hauptursache sind Steuern sowie gesetzlich festgelegte Umlagen und Abgaben, die vorwiegend klimapolitisch motiviert sind. Ohne ihre Einführung und schrittweise Erhöhung hätten sich die...