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This note attempts to reconcile a range of primary methods for dealing with price asymmetry, such as the approaches proposed by Tweeten and Quance (1969), Wolffram (1971) and Houk(1977). Using Wolffram's stylized example, we first illustrate that the notion of asymmetry can be captured in a...
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In den vergangenen Jahren erlebte Deutschland einen Solarboom. Stark fallende Preise für Solarmodule sowie die hohen Einspeisevergütungen führten dazu, dass die Photovoltaik (PV) massiv ausgebaut wurde. Dies ist entgegen erster Intuition keine gute, sondern eine gefährliche Entwicklung: In...
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The overestimation of willingness-to-pay (WTP) in hypothetical responses is a wellknown finding in the literature. Various techniques have been proposed to remove or, at least, reduce this bias. Using responses from a panel of about 6,500 German households on their WTP for a variety of power...
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Die Überschätzung der Zahlungsbereitschaft in rein hypothetischen Entscheidungssituationen ist ein in der Literatur wohlbekanntes Phänomen. Zur Eliminierung dieser Verzerrung wurden verschiedene Methoden vorgeschlagen, unter anderem der sogenannte Cheap-Talk-Ansatz und das...
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Germany's energy transition has been accompanied by a near doubling of power prices for private households since the outset of the new millennium. Millions of poor households and those that are close to the poverty threshold are likely to suffer from these increases in electricity cost. Focusing...
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