Subsidizing Renewable Energy: Higher Welfare by lower depreciation costs for fossil power plants?
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Keywords
Renewable Energy; Transition Period; Welfare Effects;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H23 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
- O21 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - Planning Models; Planning Policy
- O44 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Environment and Growth
- Q42 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Alternative Energy Sources
- Q43 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Energy and the Macroeconomy
- Q48 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Government Policy
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENE-2018-12-17 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2018-12-17 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-REG-2018-12-17 (Regulation)
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