Arbeitspapier
Wind electricity subsidies = windfall gains for land owners? Evidence from a feed-in tariff in Germany
In 2013, around 121 billion US-Dollar were spend worldwide to promote the investment into renewable energy sources. The most prominent support scheme employed is a feed-in tariff, which guarantees a fixed price for electricity produced by renewable energies sources, usually for around 15 years after the installation of the plant. We study the incidence of wind turbine subsidies, due to a feed-in tariff in Germany, into land prices to shed light on who benefits from the subsidies. In order to identify the incidence share we exploit quasi-experimental variation in wind strength across 270 non-urban counties combined with an institutional reform and use an Instrumental Variable estimator based on administrative transactionprices. We find that between 15 and 20% of expected wind turbine profits are capitalized into land prices. Using the estimated incidence share of 15%, we find that wind turbine subsidies account for roughly 4% of overall agricultural income of land owners in 2007.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: DIW Discussion Papers ; No. 1568
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Taxation and Subsidies: Incidence
Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
Business Taxes and Subsidies including sales and value-added (VAT)
Renewable Resources and Conservation: Government Policy
Alternative Energy Sources
- Thema
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incidence
subsidy
renewable energy
wind turbines
land prices
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Haan, Peter
Simmler, Martin
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
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Berlin
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2016
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Haan, Peter
- Simmler, Martin
- Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
Entstanden
- 2016
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