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We propose a price-cap mechanism for electricity-transmission expansion based on redefining transmission output in terms of financial transmission rights. Our mechanism applies the incentive-regulation logic of rebalancing a two-part tariff. First, we test this mechanism in a three-node network. We show that the mechanism intertemporally promotes an investment pattern that relieves congestion, increases ...
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The Energy Journal
32 (2011), 1, S. 119-148
| Juan Rosellón, Hannes Weigt
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This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro-data from the Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF) for three prominent panel studies, namely the BHPS for the UK, the SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, we use the factor decomposition method described by Shorrocks (Econometrica 50:193-211, 1982). The factor decomposition ...
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Journal of Economic Inequality
9 (2011), 1, S. 35-56
| Anna Fräßdorf, Markus M. Grabka, Johannes Schwarze
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In this paper I evaluate the effect of student aid on the success of academic studies. I focus on two dimensions, the duration of study and the probability of actually graduating with a degree. To determine the impact of financial student aid, I estimate a discrete-time duration model allowing for competing risks to account for different exit states (graduation and dropout) using individual level panel ...
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Economics of Education Review
30 (2011), 1, S. 177-190
| Daniela Glocker
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This paper provides an overview of the existing systems of natural hazard insurance in Europe, their structural characteristics and peculiarities. It also discusses the difficulties of adaptation of these systems to climate change and the growing number of natural disasters. Using Germany, Austria and Switzerland as examples, the paper demonstrates that based on the status quo, the Swiss monopoly insurance ...
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Environmental Policy and Governance
21 (2011), 1, S. 14-30
| Reimund Schwarze, Manijeh Schwindt, Hannelore Weck-Hannemann, Paul Raschky, Ferdinand Zahn, Gert G. Wagner
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We develop a duopoly model with advertising supported platforms and analyze incentives of a superior firm to license its advanced technologies to an inferior rival. We highlight the role of two technologies characteristic for media platforms: the technology to produce content and to place advertisements. Licensing incentives are driven solely by indirect network effects arising from the aversion of ...
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The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy
11 (2011), 1, S. 1-49
| Geza Sapi, Irina Suleymanova
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We use a quantitative electricity market model to analyze the welfare effects of refunding a share of the emission trading proceeds to support renewable energy technologies that are subject to experience effects. We compare effects of supporting renewable energies under both perfect and oligopolistic competition with competitive fringe firms and emission trading regimes that achieve 70 and 80% emission ...
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Utilities Policy
19 (2011), 1, S. 33-41
| Thure Traber, Claudia Kemfert
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
Die zunehmende Erwerbsbeteiligung von Frauen und die Ausbreitung "atypischer" Beschäftigungsverhältnisse hat zur Folge, dass der Anteil an Haushalten, in denen der Mann der alleinige Ernährer der Familie ist, abnimmt und der Anteil an Zweiverdienerhaushalten seit Jahren ansteigt. Vor diesem Hintergrund fragt dieser Beitrag, welche Bedeutung Haushaltskontexte, in denen das traditionelle male-breadwinner-Modell ...
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Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
63 (2011), 1, S. 33-59
| Stefan Liebig, Carsten Sauer, Jürgen Schupp
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This paper presents an application of a mechanism that provides incentives to promote transmission network expansion in the area of the US electric system known as PJM. The applied mechanism combines the merchant and regulatory approaches to attract investment into transmission grids. It is based on rebalancing a two-part tariff in the framework of a wholesale electricity market with locational pricing. ...
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Utilities Policy
19 (2011), 1, S. 3-13
| Juan Rosellón, Zdenka Mysliková, Eric Zenón
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The Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) provide an up-to-date data source for the comparative analysis of income, material deprivation and poverty. At the European Union (EU) level, these data have become a standard source for social reporting. Yet the specific approaches to data collection in EU-SILC vary widely from one country to the next. One of the major differences is that some ...
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Journal of European Social Policy
21 (2011), 1, S. 37-54
| Henning Lohmann
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Hausmann, Pritchett, and Rodrik (2005) found that political regime changes, external shocks and economic reforms are statistically significant predictors of growth accelerations. Updating the data from 1992 up to 2000 and correcting for coding errors, this paper argues that the original results are fragile upon changes in period, sample, measures, and inclusion of controls. All the data are provided ...
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Econ Journal Watch
8 (2011), 1, S. 39-55
| Guo Xu