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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2008
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
Dresden Discussion Paper Series in Economics No. 03/08
Verlag: 
Technische Universität Dresden, Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Dresden
Zusammenfassung: 
For power-plant investments, utilities rely after liberalisation on private financial markets, which are in general distorted. The (related) split of social and private time-preference rates provides a new reason for a welfare-enhancing policy intervention, complementary to environmental policy (Heinzel and Winkler 2007). This paper quantifies it and studies its relevance for the German power industry around 2015. The distortions remain moderate as compared to other investment subsidies. However, in contrast to environmental policy alone, its additional implementation makes nuclear power the first option even in the nuclear high-cost scenario. Both policies enhance ecological structural change, which end-of-pipe abatement delays.
Schlagwörter: 
distorted time preferences
environmental and technology policy
conventional energy technologies
JEL: 
Q48
D92
H23
H43
Dokumentart: 
Working Paper

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