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  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Induced Technological Change in a Multi-Regional, Multi-Sectoral, Integrated Asessment Model (WIAGEM): Impact Assessment of Climate Policy Strategies

    This paper illustrates the representation of induced technological change in the multi-regional, multi-sectoral integrated assessment model WIAGEM. The main aim of the paper is to investigate quantitatively the economic impacts of climate policy measures due to the induced technological changes that are considered. Improved technological innovations are triggered by increased R&D expenditures that ...

    In: Ecological Economics 54 (2005), 2-3, S. 293-305 | Claudia Kemfert
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    How to Turn an Industry Green: Taxes versus Subsidies

    Environmental policies frequently target the ratio of dirty to green output within the same industry. To achieve such targets, the green sector may be subsidized or the dirty sector be taxed. We show that in a monopolistic competition setting, the two policy approaches have different welfare effects, depending on the design of the instrument (ad valorem versus unit instrument) and the initial situation ...

    In: Journal of Regulatory Economics 27 (2005), 2, S. 177-202 | Susanne Dröge, Philipp J. H. Schröder
  • Weekly Report 11 / 2005

    Russian Energy and Climate Policy Remains Inconsistent: Challenges for the EU

    The relations between Russia and the EU with respect to energy and climate policies have been characterized in recent months by two phenomena. On the one hand, the EU has to deal with questions regarding the security of energy supply. The Russian government's high-handed treatment of domestic and foreign energy enterprises operating in the country is irritating potential investors. There is reason ...

    2005| Christian von Hirschhausen, Claudia Kemfert, Franziska Holz
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Transporting Russian Gas to Western Europe: A Simulation Analysis

    In: The Energy Journal 26 (2005), 2, S. 49-68 | Christian von Hirschhausen, Berit Meinhart, Ferdinand Pavel
  • Weitere externe Aufsätze

    Energy Taxation and Competitiveness: Special Provisions for Business in Germany's Environmental Tax Reform

    In: Hope Ashiabor, Kurt Deketelaere, Larry Kreiser, Janet Milne (Eds.) , Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation
    Richmond : Richmond Law & Tax Ltd.
    S. 135-145
    | Michael Kohlhaas
  • Weekly Report 16 / 2005

    Climate Protection in the German Electricity Market: Opportunities for Coal Technologies through CO2 Capture and Storage?

    The German electricity market is facing two major challenges: competition and climate protection. The liberalization of the electricity sector in Europe following the directive on the single internal market is increasing competition between suppliers of electricity, while the trading in emissions certificates, which started in January 2005, aims at reducing emission of carbon dioxide. This gives a ...

    2005| Claudia Kemfert, Katja Schumacher
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    The Role of Technological Change for a Sustainable Development: Editorial

    Technological change has become a major focus in environmental policy as well as in energy and climate policy. Indeed, there is a growing body of knowledge about how and in which direction technological change might have an impact on environmental resource constraints and how environmental policy might have an impact on this direction. In this article we introduce the contributions to this special ...

    In: Ecological Economics 54 (2005), 2-3, S. 133-147 | Herman R. J. Vollebergh, Claudia Kemfert
  • Diskussionspapiere 512 / 2005

    Convergence of Electricity Wholesale Prices in Europe? A Kalman Filter Approach

    This study tests the hypothesis that the ongoing restructuring process in the European electricity sector, as well as market participants' adaptation to the new legal framework, have caused electricity wholesale day-ahead prices to converge towards arbitrage freeness. Using hourly cross-border capacity auction results at the Dutch-German and at the Danish-German border for the years 2002 to 2004, and ...

    2005| Georg Zachmann
  • Externe Monographien

    Efficiency Analysis of German Electricity Distribution Utilities: Non-Parametric and Parametric Tests

    Dresden: Technische Universität, 2005, 25 S.
    (Dresden Discussion Paper Series in Economics ; 2005,6)
    | Christian von Hirschhausen, Astrid Cullmann
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    International Market Integration for Natural Gas? A Cointegration Analysis of Prices in Europe, North America and Japan

    This paper investigates the degree of integration of natural gas markets in Europe, North America and Japan in the time period between the early 1990s and 2004. The relationship between international gas market prices and their relation to the oil price are explored through principal components analysis and Johansen likelihood-based cointegration procedure. Both of them show a high level of natural ...

    In: Energy Economics 27 (2005), 4, S. 603-615 | Boriss Siliverstovs, Guillaume L'Hégaret, Anne Neumann, Christian von Hirschhausen
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