Prof David Newbery, Prof Michael Pollitt, Prof David Reiner and Dr Robert Ritz submitted a response to the REMA Consultation Document Questions going through each of the chapters in detail.
Prof David Newbery, EPRG’s director wrote a commentary on the future of UK electricity policy in response to REMA.
EPRG is pleased to announce our successful 2022 EPRG & CEEPR European Energy Policy Conference. This year the conference was held in strategic partnership with EDF. It took place at Sparks Building, Rue Ravenstein 60, in Brussels, Belgium, on 1 – 2 September 2022 and comprised of 1,5 day of sessions and dinner. PROGRAMME Thursday 1 September Welcome and Announcements Christopher R. Knittel… Continue Reading
Robert A. Ritz Linking executive compensation to climate performance California Management Review, Volume 64, May 2022 An earlier version of this work was published as EPRG WP 2029 Continue Reading
Robert A. Ritz Global carbon price asymmetry Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 114, July 2022 Also Published as EPRG WP 2116 Continue Reading
Robert A. Ritz Carbon pricing and industrial competitiveness: Border adjustment or free allocation? Abstract | Non-Technical Summary | Text Continue Reading
R. Ritz, S. Evans, M. Mehling and P. Sammon Border carbon adjustments and industrial competitiveness in a European Green Deal Climate Policy, volume 21, pages 307-317, December 2020 Continue Reading
Robert Ritz presented on “Understanding Overlapping Climate Policies: Internal Carbon Leakage and the Punctured Waterbed” at the 2021 BIEE Research Conference: Energy for a Net Zero Society held at Worcester College, Oxford on 13-14 September 2021 | PDF Continue Reading
Robert Ritz presented on “Overlapping Climate Policies” at the NBER Summer Institute 2021 Energy & Environmental Economics Workshop, 26-27 July 2021 | PDF Continue Reading
Robert Ritz presented on “Overlapping Climate Policies” at the Mannheim Conference on Energy and the Environment on 20-21 May 2021 and at the Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) on 23-25 June 2021 | PDF Continue Reading
Robert A. Ritz Global carbon price asymmetry Abstract | Non-Technical Summary | Text Continue Reading
Robert Ritz published a piece “Sustainable investment: Look more closely at corporate divestitures of carbon-heavy assets” with Cambridge Zero on 2 December 2020 You can read the article here Continue Reading
Grischa Perino, Robert A. Ritz and Arthur A. van Benthem Overlapping Climate Policies Abstract | Non-Technical Summary | Text Continue Reading
Robert Ritz gave a research seminar on “Generalized linear competition: From pass-through to policy” to the Helsinki Graduate School of Economics on 11 November 2020 | PDF Continue Reading
Robert A. Ritz Climate targets, executive compensation, and corporate strategy Abstract | Non-Technical Summary | Text Continue Reading
Michael Mehling and Robert Ritz Going beyond default intensities in an EU carbon border adjustment mechanism Abstract | Non-Technical Summary | Text Executive Summary Continue Reading
Christos Genakos, Felix Grey and Robert Ritz Generalized linear competition: From pass-through to policy Abstract | Non-Technical Summary | Text Continue Reading
Robert Ritz gave a keynote talk on “EU carbon border adjustment: Policy design and industrial competitiveness” at an expert roundtable on the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism hosted by Hill+Knowlton Strategies in Brussels on 24 June 2020 | PDF Continue Reading
Stuart Evans, Michael Mehling, Robert Ritz, Paul Sammon Border Carbon Adjustments and Industrial Competitiveness in a European Green Deal Abstract | Non-Technical Summary | Text Continue Reading
Juha Teirila and Robert Ritz Strategic behaviour in a capacity market? The new Irish electricity market design The Energy Journal, Volume 40, Special Issue The New Era of Energy Transition, pages 105-126 Continue Reading
Karsten Neuhoff and Robert A. Ritz Carbon cost pass-through in industrial sectors Abstract | Non-Technical Summary | PDF Continue Reading
Robert Ritz gave a presentation “Capacity mechanisms and the technology mix in competitive electricity markets” at Hamburg Research Workshop: The Economics of the Energy System Transition on 19-20 September 2019, Hamburg, Germany | PDF Continue Reading
Robert A. Ritz Does competition increase pass-through? Abstract | Non-Technical Summary | PDF Continue Reading
Par Holmberg and Robert A. Ritz Capacity mechanisms and the technology mix in competitive electricity markets Abstract | Non-Technical Summary | PDF Continue Reading
Robert Ritz gave a presentation “Global gas markets, carbon pricing and the future of natural gas” as a keynote lecture at 2nd International Conference on the Economics of Natural Gas Markets, Université Paris-Dauphine, 21 June 2019 | PDF Continue Reading
David Newbery, David Reiner and Robert Ritz The political economy of a carbon price floor for power generation The Energy Journal, Volume 40 (1), January 2019 Continue Reading
Robert Ritz gave a presentation”Pass-through, profits and the political economy of regulation” at 2019 International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC) in Boston, USA, on 7 April 2019 | PDF Continue Reading
Grischa Perino, Robert A. Ritz and Arthur A. van Benthem Understanding overlapping policies: Internal carbon leakage and the punctured waterbed Abstract | Non-Technical Summary | PDF Continue Reading
David Newbery, Michael Pollitt, Robert Ritz, and Wadim Strielkowski Market design for a high-renewables European electricity system Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, volume 91, pages 695-707, August 2018 Based on EPRG WP#1711 Continue Reading
Robert Ritz gave a presentation on “The political economy of a carbon price floor for power generation” to an expert roundtable hosted by the European Policy Centre (EPC) in Brussels on 5 November 2018 | PDF Continue Reading
Juha Teirilä and Robert A. Ritz Strategic behaviour in a capacity market? The new Irish electricity market design Abstract | Non-Technical Summary | PDF Continue Reading
Felix Grey and Robert Ritz Pass-through, profits and the political economy of regulation Abstract | Non-Technical Summary | PDF Continue Reading
Robert Ritz gave seminar presentation on “Pass-through, profits and the political economy of regulation” at Yale University, USA on 12 September 2018 He also presented “Pass-through, profits and the political economy of regulation” at Resources for the Future Seminar in Washington DC, USA on 17 September 2018 The slides for both presentations can be found here Continue Reading
Robert Ritz, EPRG Assistant Director, University of Cambridge, and Arthur van Benthem, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, published an article “Europe should learn from California’s carbon trading” in The Hill on 5 September 2018. The full text of the article can be read here Continue Reading
Robert Ritz, EPRG Assistant Director, University of Cambridge, and Arthur van Benthem, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, published an article “Don’t backpedal on the CO2 price floor” in the leading Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant on 7 August 2018. To read the article in Dutch, please click here Continue Reading
Robert Ritz, EPRG Assistant Director, University of Cambridge, and Arthur van Benthem, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, published an article “Europe needs a minimum price on carbon emissions” in Handelsblatt Global, on 25 July 2018. The full text of the article can be read here. Continue Reading
Robert Ritz gave a presentation “When is a carbon price floor desirable?” to the French arm of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) at a special event on carbon price floors held at Paris Dauphine University on 4 July 2018 | PDF Continue Reading
David Newbery, David Reiner and Robert Ritz published a Policy Brief “A carbon price floor for power generation to reaffirm EU climate leadership” on 28 June 2018. The brief is based on the EPRG Working Paper #1816 ‘The European Union should introduce a minimum price on carbon dioxide from electricity generation to accelerate low-carbon investment… Continue Reading
David Newbery, David Reiner, and Robert Ritz When is a carbon price floor desirable? Abstract | Non-Technical Summary | PDF Policy Brief “A carbon price floor for power generation to reaffirm EU climate leadership“, based on this paper, can be read here Continue Reading
We are pleased to announce that Robert Ritz, one of EPRG’s Assistant Directors, has been appointed as a member of Ofgem’s Academic Panel. The Panel is set to enhance Ofgem’s strategic thinking and early-stage policy development. More details on the Panel, its aims and current members can be found here Continue Reading
Robert Ritz gave a keynote on “Global gas markets and the future of natural gas” at the 2018 Energy Transitions Conference at NTNU Trondheim, Norway, on 27 February 2018 | PDF Continue Reading
Robert Ritz, Cameron Hepburn, John Quah Emissions trading with profit-neutral permit allocations Journal of Public Economics, Volume 98, February 2013, Pages 85-99 Continue Reading
Robert Ritz On welfare losses due to imperfect competition The Journal of Industrial Economics, Volume 62, Issue 1, March 2014, Pages 167–190 Continue Reading
Robert Hahn and Robert Ritz Does the social cost of carbon matter? Evidence from US policy The Journal of Legal Studies, January 2015, Volume 44 (1) Continue Reading
Robert Ritz and Ansgar Walther How do banks respond to increased funding uncertainty? Journal of Financial Intermediation, Volume 24, Issue 3, July 2015, Pages 386-410 Continue Reading
Robert Ritz How Does Renewables Competition Affect Forward Contracting in Electricity Markets? Economics Letters vol. 146 p135-139 Continue Reading
David Newbery, Michael Pollitt, Robert Ritz, and Wadim Strielkowski Market design for a high-renewables European electricity system Continue Reading
Robert Ritz gave a presentation “OPEC vs US shale: Analyzing the shift to a market-share strategy” at Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich Economies (OxCarre) on 15 November 2016 | PDF Continue Reading
Robert Ritz gave a presentation ” Strategic investment, multimarket interaction and competitive advantage: An application to the natural gas industry” during the Seminar in Energy Economics, at Ecole des Mines & Paris Dauphine, France, on 13 April 2016 | PDF Continue Reading
Alberto Behar and Robert A. Ritz OPEC vs US shale oil: Analyzing the shift to a market-share strategy Continue Reading
Robert A. Ritz How does renewables competition affect forward contracting in electricity markets? Continue Reading