This paper examines the local impacts of renewable energy carrier promotion by the German feed-in tariffs scheme "Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz" for the German State of Baden-Wuerttemberg by using an…
As shown by R. Hahn (1984), free allocation to a firm with market power equal to the amount of permits the firm uses in a competitive equilibrium can prevent welfare losses under market power. In this paper an…
In this paper, the role of intermediaries, e.g. banks, under quantity based regulation with tradeable permits is examined. An example is the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). In the EU ETS, the total…
Despite the high CO2 emission intensity of fossil and especially coal fired energy production, these energy carriers will play an important role during the coming decades. In Germany, nuclear energy has to be…
