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Impact of Reductions and Exemptions in Energy Taxes and Levies on German Industry

Between 2002 and 2007, Germany introduced its National Strategy for Sustainable Development and its Integrated Climate Protection Program, which both defined clear energy and climate-related objectives, setting an emissions reduction trajectory of 40% below the 1990 level by 2020. This spurred the development and refinement of a set of policies to create incentives for energy efficiency improvements, ...

Probleme des internationalen Vergleichs industrieller Entwicklungen im europäischen Kontext

Im Rahmen des europäischen Binnenmarktes stellt sich die Frage, wie sich die deutsche Industrie im Vergleich zu der anderer großer EU-Länder entwickelt. Welche Indikatoren sind zur Messung der relativen Position der Industrie und ihrer Zweige unter konjunkturellen und strukturellen Aspekten im europäischen Rahmen geeignet? In diesem Bericht werden Indikatoren wie der Produktionsindex und die reale ...

Where Are the Industrial Technologies in Energy-Economy Models? An Innovative CGE Approach for Steel Production in Germany

Top-down computable general equilibrium (CGE) models are used extensively for analysis of energy and climate policies. Energy-intensive industries are usually represented in top-down economic models as abstract economic production functions, commonly of the constant-elasticity-of-substitution (CES) or translog functional form. This study explores methods for improving the realism of energy-intensive ...

Produktdiversifizierung: Konvergenz zwischen ost- und westdeutschen Unternehmen: eine Dekomposition mit Mikrodaten der amtlichen Statistik

In the aftermath of Germany's reunification, redesigning their product range was a major challenge for East-German enterprises. At the same time, there were growing signs that Western enterprises reacted to globalization and European integration by increasingly pursuing strategies of specialization. Using representative micro data from Germany's system of register based, official firm surveys, this ...

Electric Vehicles in Imperfect Electricity Markets: The Case of Germany

We use a game-theoretic model to analyze the impacts of a hypothetical fleet of plug-in electric vehicles on the imperfectly competitive German electricity market. Electric vehicles bring both additional demand and additional storage capacity to the market. We determine the effects on prices, welfare, and electricity generation for various cases with different players in charge of vehicle operations. ...

Electric Vehicles in Imperfect Electricity Markets: A German Case Study

We analyze the impacts of a hypothetical fleet of plug-in electric vehicles on the imperfectly competitive German electricity market with a game-theoretic model. Electric vehicles bring both additional demand and additional storage capacity to the market. We determine their effects on prices, welfare, and electricity generation for various cases with different players being in charge of vehicle operations. ...

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 ...

Vorschlag für die zukünftige Ausgestaltung der Ausnahmen für die Industrie bei der EEG-Umlage

Research-Based Companies Perform Better

The past ten years have seen an expansion in industrial research. There has been a significant increase in the number of research-based companies, as well as in employment in research and development, and in expenditure in this area. Growth has been observed predominantly in companies in less research-intensive sectors and in small and medium-sized enterprises. Consequently, over the last decade, industrial ...

Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises are Catching up: Seven Questions to Alexander Eickelpasch