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Is border carbon adjustment the right tool for the power sector?Climate Policy - scholarly articlesPublished: 5 of March, 2022

Carbon leakage occurs in any carbon pricing regime that is not global, which means all of them so far. That is inherently unfair to sectors that are subject to a carbon price but compete with those that are not. The European Green Deal aims to rectify ...

The role of economic instruments in addressing conflicts of interest in water: allocation of scarce water resourcesHungarian Journal of Hydrology 2021. Volume 101 Special Issue - scholarly articlesPublished: 24 of February, 2021

Predictable access to sufficient water is one of the cornerstones of social well-being, but unlimited resources are available to a lower and lower extent in much of the world. Hungary's position is good for the time being, but there are signs of ...

Are we still falling? Sustainability and equity in the Hungarian water utility services sectorBudapest Management Review - scholarly articlesPublished: 28 of November, 2019

In this article, the authors look at the recent history of the Hungarian water utility sector, dividing it into two essential periods: the pre-2011 and post-2011 periods are separated by the adoption of a globally unique sectoral reform package. At the ...

Electric tango – Turning points in the regulation of the Hungarian electricity sectorBudapest Management Review - scholarly articlesPublished: 28 of November, 2019

The process of structural reforms, market design changes and regulatory measures of the Hungarian electricity sector can be described as the machinations and the character of a tango in the last 30 years; fast dynamic moves back and forward, with side ...

Fifteen years of gas market liberalisation in HungaryBudapest Management Review - scholarly articlesPublished: 28 of November, 2019

Since the opening of the natural gas market in 2004, profound changes have taken place in ownership, regulation and operation of the natural gas market. After morphing to a multi-player competition market structure, some market segments returned to ...

Issues of the allowed rate of return charged on the regulatory asset base on the example of the Hungarian gas distributionCompetition and Regulation 2018 - books, chaptersPublished: 1 of May, 2019

From time to time there is a need for the development of a predictable regulatory framework that takes into account the considerations of both investors and users of services in the context of price regulation of asset-intensive utility services. In our ...

Case study report on governance barriers to energy transition - Country report for HUNGARYENABLE research project deliverable (D5.2) - working papersPublished: 10 of October, 2018

The country study was prepared in the frame of the ENABLE. EU research project with the aim to explore national legislative, regulatory and financial bottlenecks to the implementation of low carbon energy systems, focusing on the areas of a) wind, solar ...

Country Paper: Energy Research, Development and Innovation in Hungaryworking papersPublished: 5 of December, 2017

The representatives of the Central European countries and the European Commission organised a workshop on 11th December 2017 in Brussels on the latest innovations and the regulatory environemnt. This Country Paper analyses the state of the innovation in ...

Modelling policy options in the district heating sector, with a focus on renewable consumptionEconomic Review vol. LXIII., November 2016. - scholarly articlesPublished: 8 of November, 2016

The paper analyses the Hungarian system of district heating, which accounts for 15 per cent of total heat consumption. Both national and European Union s strategy documents aim at achieving sustainable, secure and affordable energy. Hungarian district ...

Fiscal competition on the market for diesel fuel in the European UnionEconomic Review 2009 - scholarly articlesPublished: 2 of March, 2009

The paper assesses spatial competition in diesel taxation among European governments. By adding an extension to the standard model, it is shown that asymmetric competition - small countries undercutting large - implies that small countries respond less ...