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  • Diskussionspapiere 1813 / 2019

    Do Energy Efficiency Networks Save Energy? Evidence from German Plant-Level Data

    In energy efficiency networks, groups of firms exchange experiences on energy conservation in regular meetings over several years. The companies implement energy efficiency measures in order to reach commonly agreed energy savings and CO2 reduction goals. Existing evaluations of such voluntary regional networks claim that participants improved energy efficiency at twice the speed of the industry average. ...

    2019| Jan Stede
  • Diskussionspapiere 1777 / 2018

    The Role of Budget Contraints in Sequential Elimination Tournaments

    Motivated by the EU concept of Pre-Commercial Procurement and the massivepresence of SMEs in the European economy, we study how budget constraints affect R&D effort in sequential elimination tournaments. We show that introducingbudget constraints leads to a non-monotonicity in unconstrained contestants' effort.Furthermore, we show that if the budget asymmetry is not too large, unconstrainedcontestants ...

    2018| Malin Arve, Olga Chiappinelli
  • Diskussionspapiere 1620 / 2016

    Pricing Carbon Consumption: A Review of an Emerging Trend

    Nearly every carbon price regulates the production of carbon emissions, typically at midstream points of compliance, such as a power plant. Over the last six years, however, policymakers in Australia, California, China, Japan, and Korea implemented carbon prices that regulate the consumption of carbon emissions, where points of compliance are farther downstream, such as distributors or final consumers. ...

    2016| Clayton Munnings, William Acworth, Oliver Sartor, Yong-Gun Kim, Karsten Neuhoff
  • Diskussionspapiere 1607 / 2016

    Political Corruption in the Execution of Public Contracts

    This paper presents a novel theory of corruption in public procurement. It considers an agency setting of contract execution where the principal is a politician who can commit to a contract auditing policy. It is found that a benevolent politician, by choosing a sufficiently strict auditing, deters the contracting firm from padding costs, conversely, a selfish politician chooses a relatively lax auditing ...

    2016| Olga Chiappinelli
  • Diskussionspapiere 1601 / 2016

    The Valley of Death, the Technology Pork Barrel, and Public Support for Large Demonstration Projects

    Moving non-incremental innovations from the pilot scale to full commercial scale raises questions about the need and implementation of public support. Heuristics from the literature put policy makers in a dilemma between addressing a market failure and acknowledging a government failure: incentives for private investments in large scale demonstrations are weak (the valley of death) but the track record ...

    2016| Gregory F. Nemet, Martina Kraus, Vera Zipperer
  • Diskussionspapiere 1485 / 2015

    The Impact of Wind Power Support Schemes on Technology Choices

    Germany changed renewable remuneration for wind power from a fixed Feed-In Tariff (FIT) to a floating Market Premium Scheme (MPS) in 2012. One aim of this adjustment was to better align the supply of generated wind electricity with the demand for it, e.g. through more system-friendly wind turbine technology choices. In energy systems with a high share of variable renewable energies, such turbines produce ...

    2015| Nils May
  • Diskussionspapiere 1418 / 2014

    FTR Allocations to Ease Transition to Nodal Pricing: An Application to the German Power System

    A shift from zonal pricing to smaller zones and nodal pricing improves efficiency and security of system operation. Resulting price changes do however also shift profits and surplus between and across generation and load. As individual actorscan lose, they might oppose any reform. We explore how free allocation of financial transmission rights to generation and load can be used to mitigate the distributional ...

    2014| Friedrich Kunz, Karsten Neuhoff, Juan Rosellón
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    The Role of Budget Constraints in Sequential Elimination Tournaments

    We study how budget constraints affect effort provision in sequential elimination tournaments. Our main result is that the introduction of budget constraints has two opposing effects on the initial effort of the unconstrained contestants, and leads to a non-monotonicity of this effort. This implies that if the budget asymmetry is not too large, total first-stage effort from unconstrained contestants ...

    In: The Scandinavian Journal of Economics 123 (2021), 4, S. 1059-1087 | Malin Arve, Olga Chiappinelli
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Political Corruption in the Execution of Public Contracts

    This paper presents a novel theoretical framework to explain the occurrence of corruption in public procurement. It extends the agency cost-padding model by Laffont and Tirole (1992) to allow for the principal to be a partially selfish politician who can design the contract auditing policy. It is found that a benevolent politician, by choosing a sufficiently strict auditing, deters the contracting ...

    In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 179 (2020), S. 116-140 | Olga Chiappinelli
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Pricing Carbon Consumption: Synthesizing an Emerging Trend

    Nearly every carbon price regulates the production of carbon emissions, typically at midstream points of compliance such as power plants, consistent with typical advice from the literature. Since the early 2010s however, policymakers in Australia, California, China, Japan and Korea have implemented carbon prices that regulate the consumption of carbon emissions, where points of compliance are further ...

    In: Climate Policy 19 (2019), 1, S. 92-107 | Clayton Munnings, William Acworth, Oliver Sartor, Yong-Gun Kim, Karsten Neuhoff
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