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This paper provides a literature review on wind power and externalities from multiple perspectives. Specifically, the economic rationale behind world-wide wind power deployment is to mitigate negative externalities of conventional electricity technologies, notably emissions from fossil fuels. However, wind power entails externalities itself. Wind turbines can lower quality of human life through noise ...
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Ecological Economics
141 (2017), S. 245-260
| Alexander Zerrahn
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The purpose of this article is twofold. First, we review model-based analyses that explore the role of power storage in energy systems with high shares of variable renewables. Second, we introduce a new model that is specifically designed for exploring long-term storage requirements. The literature survey focuses on recent contributions in the peer-reviewed energy economics and engineering literature. ...
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Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
79 (2017),S. 1518-1534
| Alexander Zerrahn, Wolf-Peter Schill
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Using representative household survey data from Japan after the Fukushima accident, we estimate peoples' willingness-to-pay (WTP) for renewable, nuclear, and fossil fuels in electricity generation. We rely on random parameter econometric techniques to capture various degrees of heterogeneity between the respondents, and use detailed regional information to assess how WTP varies with the distance to ...
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Energy Economics
65 (2017), S. 262-270
| Katrin Rehdanz, Carsten Schröder, Daiju Narita, Toshihiro Okubo
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Redistributive policies can provide an insurance against future negative economic shocks. This, in turn, implies that an individual's demand for redistribution is expected to increase with her risk aversion. To test this prediction, we elicit risk aversion and demand for redistribution through a well-established set of measures in a representative sample of the Swedish population. We document a statistically ...
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Journal of Public Economics
153 (2017), S. 49-55
| Johanna Mollerstrom, Manja Gärtner, David Seim
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Economists consider personality traits to be stable, particularly throughout adulthood. However, evidence from psychological studies suggests that the stability assumption may not always be valid, as personality traits can respond to certain life events. Our paper analyzes whether and to what extent personality traits are malleable over a time span of eight years for a sample of working individuals. ...
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Journal of Economic Psychology
60 (2017), S. 71-91
| Silke Anger, Georg Camehl, Frauke Peter
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Open access to research data has been described as a driver of innovation and a potential cure for the reproducibility crisis in many academic fields. Against this backdrop, policy makers are increasingly advocating for making research data and supporting material openly available online. Despite its potential to further scientific progress, widespread data sharing in small science is still an ideal ...
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Palgrave Communications
3 (2017), 17051, S. 1-10
| Benedikt Fecher, Sascha Friesike, Marcel Hebing, Stephanie Linek
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In energy systems with large shares of variable renewable energies, electricity generation is lower during unfavorable weather conditions. System-friendly wind turbines (SFTs) rectify this by producing a larger share of their electricity at low wind speeds. This paper analyzes to what extent SFTs' benefits out-weigh their additional costs and how to incentivize investments into them. Using a wind power ...
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Energy Economics
65 (2017), S. 343-354
| Nils May
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We explore the impact of large banks and of financial openness for aggregate growth. Large banks matter because of granular effects: if markets are very concentrated in terms of the size distribution of banks, idiosyncratic shocks at the bank-level do not cancel out in the aggregate but can affect macroeconomic outcomes. Financial openness may affect GDP growth in and of itself, and it may also influence ...
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Journal of Banking & Finance
77 (2017), S. 300-316
| Franziska Bremus, Claudia M. Buch
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This paper investigates the impact of changes in environmental policy stringency on industry- and firm-level productivity growth in a panel of OECD countries. To test the strong version of the Porter Hypothesis (PH), we extend a neo-Schumpeterian productivity model to allow for effects of environmental policies. We use a new environmental policy stringency (EPS) index and let the effect of countries׳ ...
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Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
81 (2017), S. 209-226
| Silvia Albrizio, Tomasz Kozluk, Vera Zipperer
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Lifespan research has long been interested in how contexts shape individual development. Using the separation and later reunification of Germany as a kind of natural experiment we examine whether and how living and dying in the former East or West German context has differentially shaped late-life development of well-being. We apply multi-level growth models to annual reports of life satisfaction collected ...
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International Journal of Behavioral Development
41 (2017), 1, S. 115-126
| Nina Vogel, Denis Gerstorf, Nilam Ram, Jan Goebel, Gert G. Wagner