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Commitment vs. discretion in climate and energy policy
Habermacher, Florian; Lehmann, Paul - 2017
To decarbonize the power sector policy-makers need to commit to long-term credible rules for climate and energy policy. Otherwise, time-inconsistent policy-making will impair investments into low-carbon technologies. However, the future benefits and costs of decarbonization are subject to...
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Environmental protection for sale : strategic green industrial policy and climate finance
Fischer, Carolyn - 2016
Industrial policy has long been criticized as subject to protectionist interests; accordingly, subsidies to domestic producers face disciplines under World Trade Organization agreements, without exceptions for environmental purposes. Now green industrial policy is gaining popularity as...
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Increasing marginal costs and the efficiency of differentiated feed-in tariffs
Lancker, Kira; Quaas, Martin F. - 2019
of sites suitable for RE. We find that the optimal RE subsidy is differentiated according to productivity and derive a …
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Increasing marginal costs and the efficiency of differntiated feed-in tariffs
Lancker, Kira; Quaas, Martin F. - In: Factor input constraints in resource dynamics, (pp. 199-231). 2018
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Optimal subsidies for residential solar
Colas, Mark; Saulnier, Emmett - 2023 - This Version: August 2023
We study the spatial misallocation resulting from subsidies for residential solar panels in the US and quantify the associated environmental costs. We build a structural model of solar panel demand and electricity production across the country and estimate the model by combining 1) remotely...
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Subsidies for Learning in Renewable Energy Technologies Under Market Power and Emission Trading
Traber, Thure - 2015
setting of imperfect competition is more appropriate. We show that the second best output subsidy for learning by doing in … insignificantly impacted by market power. By contrast, the welfare gains from an optimal subsidy are considerably higher compared to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013037927
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Subsidizing Renewable Energy Under Capital Mobility
Eichner, Thomas - 2014
outflow to other countries. When the green subsidy is available, countries choose a positive subsidy rate since this reduces … the overall distortion of the tax-subsidy system. In doing so, each country internalizes a larger part of the …. Hence, the subsidy is not only beneficial for the country which imposes it but for all countries …
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Time-Limited Subsidies : Optimal Taxation with Implications for Renewable Energy Subsidies
Kay, Owen; Ricks, Michael - 2023
limit. Because the change in production when the subsidy ends is a sufficient statistic for the optimal duration, we … by 5-10% when the ten-year subsidy ends, demonstrating that time limits distort production even in inelastic industries …
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Effect of renewable energy subsidy policy on firms' total factor productivity : the threshold effect
Lin, Boqiang; Xie, Yongjing - In: Energy policy : the international journal of the … 192 (2024), pp. 1-10
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Subsidies for learning in renewable energy technologies under market power and emission trading
Traber, Thure; Kemfert, Claudia - 2011
setting of imperfect competition is more appropriate. We show that the second best output subsidy for learning by doing in … insignificantly impacted by market power. By contrast, the welfare gains from an optimal subsidy are considerably higher compared to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009427861