Arbeitspapier

Support policies for renewables: Instrument choice and instrument change from a public choice perspective

This paper frames the transition towards clean energies as a sequential process of instrument choice and instrument change. First, regulators decide how to initiate the transition away from fossil energies. Here, support policies for renewable electricity are politically convenient because they face low resistance from fossil energies' interest groups. In the second stage, regulators need to adapt support policies for renewables to challenges arising along the transition pathway. We empirically substantiate our arguments by tracing the development of support policies in Germany. Against the backdrop of this analysis, we point towards small-step policies that could foster the transition process.

ISBN
978-92-9256-049-2
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2016/6

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
Business Taxes and Subsidies including sales and value-added (VAT)
Alternative Energy Sources
Thema
instrument change
instrument choice
renewables
rent management
support policies

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Gawel, Erik
Strunz, Sebastian
Lehmann, Paul
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
(wo)
Helsinki
(wann)
2016

DOI
doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2016/049-2
Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Gawel, Erik
  • Strunz, Sebastian
  • Lehmann, Paul
  • The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Entstanden

  • 2016

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