Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/45880 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 1689
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
We study the impact of learning by doing, learning spill-overs, and imperfect competition in a model with two types of electricity producers, an oligopolistic sector of polluting fossil-fuel utilities and a competitive fringe of non-polluting generators of electricity from renewable energy sources (RES-E). Furthermore we consider an upstream industry of RES-E equipment producers engaged in learning by doing. We show that a first-best policy requires two instruments, a tax in the fossil-fuel sector and an output subsidy for RES-E equipment producers. We then study second-best-optimal feed-in tariffs that are paid to the generators of RES-E. By means of simulations we calculate the welfare loss of a second-best-optimal feed-in-tariff policy and analyze how market structure impacts on second-best-optimal feed-in tariffs.
Subjects: 
Feed-in tariffs
environmental subsidies
learning by doing
spill-overs
market structure
JEL: 
Q42
L13
O38
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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