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In 2008, the European Commission investigated E.ON, a large and vertically integrated electricity company, for the … divestitures on German wholesale electricity prices. Our identification strategy is based on the observation that energy suppliers … convergence between peak and off-peak prices. Using daily electricity prices for the 2006 - 2012 period and controlling for cost …
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In this paper, we study the predictive power of electricity consumption data for regional economic activity. Using … unique weekly and monthly electricity consumption data for the second-largest German state, the Free State of Bavaria, we … conduct a pseudo out-of-sample forecasting experiment for the monthly growth rate of Bavarian industrial production. We find …
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For a long time, Norway has had resource rent taxes on oil- and natural gas extraction as well as on hydropower generation. Recently, resource rent taxes have also been levied on aquaculture, and wind power generation. This paper, gives a short overview of the rent theory, the basis for rent...
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interwoven in the electricity market as the producers of green electricity are also the suppliers of TGCs. In this paper, we … formulate an analytic equilibrium model for simultaneously functioning electricity and TGC markets, and focus on the role of … market power. We consider a Stackelberg leadership model with endogenous treatment of the interaction between the electricity …
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We investigate the displacement effects of phase-out-of-coal policies in a stylized model of electricity generation and … CO2 regulation, in which a group of countries operates an emissions trading scheme (ETS). Electricity markets are either … electricity, some emissions as well as some coal-based electricity "leak" into other countries and the aggregate welfare of the …
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Electricity is a general purpose technology and the catalyst for the second industrial revolution. Developing countries … with the length of higher-voltage electricity lines. Instrumenting for electrification using hydroelectric potential, we …
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are on electricity-included property lease contracts causing them to face a marginal electricity price of zero. We use … electricity in response to summer temperature fluctuations. The result is retrieved under weaker identifying assumptions than … previous split incentives papers, and is robust when exposed to several opportunities to fail. The electricity reduction in …
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of the electricity market in the US as our case study, we find support for our theoretical predictions. Furthermore, we …
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We employ hourly electricity load data for Switzerland as a real time indicator of the economic effects of the lockdown … following the spread of SARS-CoV-2. Our findings reveal that following the drastic lockdown, overall electricity use decreased by … electricity consumption of 6.3 per cent. Assuming industry, services, transport and agriculture account for 67 per cent of …
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their electricity production relative to plants in states that chose a fixed allocation. Results find that updating …
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