Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/327703 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 12093
Publisher: 
Munich Society for the Promotion of Economic Research - CESifo GmbH, Munich
Abstract: 
The 2021-2023 European energy crisis, triggered by the war in Ukraine, led to broad policy interventions in energy markets. In contrast to the retail-side measures and public transfers implemented elsewhere, Spain and Portugal targeted the wholesale electricity market through the so-called Iberian solution. We quantify the distributional implications of the crisis and this market intervention on Spanish electricity firms and across consumer groups. We find that the crisis shifted substantial wealth from consumers to generators, with regressive impacts among consumers. Conversely, the policy's relief was progressive, delivering larger gains to lower-income groups.
Subjects: 
energy crisis
electricity markets
distributional implications
machine learning
JEL: 
L94
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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