Renewable energy installations are rapidly gaining market share due to falling technology costs and supportive policies. Meanwhile, the energy price crisis resulting from the Russian-Ukrainian war has shifted the energy policy debate toward the question of how consumers can benefit more from the low and stable generation costs of renewable electricity. Here we suggest a Renewable Pool (“RE-Pool”) under ...
This paper studies market segmentation that arises from the introduction of rent control. When a part of the market remains unregulated, theory predicts an increase of free-market rents due to the misallocation of households to dwellings. To document this mechanism empirically, we study a large-scale policy intervention in the German housing market. We isolate the misallocation mechanism by exploiting ...
Im August 2022 hat der US- Kongress ein umfangreiches Bundesgesetz, den Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), verabschiedet, das der US-Wirtschaft zu mehr Wachstum und Resilienz verhelfen soll. Es ist ein massives staatliches Investitions- und Ausgabenprogramm in den Sozialstaat, in die bundesweite Infrastruktur und in den Klima- und Umweltschutz in Höhe von geschätzt rund 430 Milliarden Dollar. Gleichzeitig ...
This paper sheds new light on the role of communication for cartel formation. Using machine learning to evaluate free-form chat communication among firms in a laboratory experiment, we identify typical communication patterns for both explicit cartel formation and indirect attempts to collude tacitly. We document that firms are less likely to communicate explicitly about price fixing and more likely ...