Subsidies for renewable energies in the presence of learning effects and market power

Resource and Energy Economics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 236-254

  Reichenbach, Johanna ^a   Requate, Till ^b,c  

^a WINGAS GmbH and Co KG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c KIEL INSTITUTE FOR THE WORLD ECONOMY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Environmental subsidies; Feed in tariffs; Learning by doing; Market structure; Spill overs

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL SUBSIDIES; FEED-IN TARIFFS; LEARNING BY DOING; MARKET STRUCTURES; SPILL-OVERS;

COMPETITION; COST ACCOUNTING; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; OPTIMIZATION; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

COMMERCE;

ENERGY RESOURCE; FOSSIL FUEL; LEARNING; MARKET SYSTEM; OLIGOPOLY; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SPILLOVER EFFECT; SUBSIDY SYSTEM; TARIFF STRUCTURE;

EID: 84855772528     PISSN: 09287655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2011.11.001     Document Type: Article

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