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WP No. (PDF) | Title of working paper | Authors | Keywords | Non-technical summary (NTS) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Is Spain’s energy voucher lighting the way for the poor? A microeconomic evaluation of the Bono Social Eléctrico |
Manuel Llorca, Ana Rodriguez-Alvarez | Energy poverty, policy evaluation, stochastic frontier analysis, Spain, Bono Social Eléctrico | Read the NTS for WP 2516 | |
How many zones should an electricity market have? A cross-country perspective on bidding zone design |
Michael G Pollitt, Marta Moretto Terribile | Zonal pricing, electricity markets, congestion management, bidding zones | Read the NTS for WP 2515 | |
Pipeline regulation for hydrogen: choosing between paths and networks |
Miguel Martinez Rodriguez, Chi Kong Chyong, Timothy Fitzgerald, Miguel Vazquez Martínez | Hydrogen infrastructure, pipeline regulation, third-party access (TPA), unbundling, market design | Read the NTS for WP 2514 | |
The Iberian Exception: what was the cost of distorting electricity markets during the 2021-23 European energy crisis? |
Hei Kan Lou, Michael G Pollitt, David Robinson, Angel Vargas Arcos | Iberian exception, energy crisis, gas price cap, electricity market | Read the NTS for WP 2513 | |
Managing the electricity distribution connection queue in Great Britain: lessons from auction theory and a potential position trading system |
Michael G Pollitt, Rona Mitchell, Daniel Duma, Andrei Covatariu | Distribution system operators, auction theory, queuing theory, grid connection queue | Read the NTS for WP 2512 | |
Evidence of firm-level pollution leakage resulting from clean air policy in China |
Chang Liu, Jingrong Wang, David M Reiner | Environmental regulation, domestic pollution leakage, air pollution, listed pollution-intensive firms, pollution-related investments | Read the NTS for WP 2511 | |
Patent pledge and technological innovation: the “good faith” of Tesla |
Ziming Wang | Patent pledge, intellectual property strategy, ecosystem, invention diffusion, electric vehicles, Tesla | Read the NTS for WP 2510 | |
Policy sequencing: on the electrification of gas loads in Australia’s National Electricity Market |
Paul Simshauser, Joel Gilmore | Electrification, renewables, natural gas, energy-only markets, dispatchable plant capacity | Read the NTS for WP 2509 | |
Will high carbon prices reduce fossil fuel use in China? Evidence from price elasticity estimates using firm data |
Mei Lu, Michael G Pollitt | Carbon price, carbon trading, CBAM, energy price elasticity | Read the NTS for WP 2508 | |
Mitigating market incompleteness with minor market distortions: the case of negative spot prices for electricity |
Ibrahim Abada, Andreas Ehrenmann | Incomplete markets, market distortion, bi-level programming, stochastic equilibrium models, optimal regulation, power markets | Read the NTS for WP 2507 |