Can carbon pricing counteract renewable energies’ cannibalization problem?
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DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2022.106345
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Keywords
Carbon price; Cannibalization effect; Merit-order effect; Renewable energy; Market values;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D4 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design
- H2 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
- Q4 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy
- Q5 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics
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