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Two decades of changing dependency on Russian gas in Central and Eastern Europe: strategies versus achievementsJournal of Contemporary European Studies - scholarly articlesPublished: 1 of August, 2024

The Eastern enlargements of the EU increased the bloc’s dependency on Russian gas and contributed to a more cautious attitude towards these supplies. This paper assesses the Russian gas dependency of the 11 Central and East European new member states ...

Evaluating the 6 March PRISMA capacity auctionsbooks, chaptersPublished: 30 of April, 2018

In early March 2017, long-term capacity bookings were held on the PRISMA auction platform, which covers most of the European Union’s natural gas transmission grid. In this short analysis we highlight amarket distortive phenomenon that may be the result ...

An ex-ante evaluation of the EU Energy Efficiency Directive - Article 7Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy 2016 - scholarly articlesPublished: 10 of August, 2016

The European Union's Energy Efficiency Directive calls for EU Member States to put in place ambitious energy efficiency policies and requires them to establish energy saving targets. One of the most important Articles of the Directive is Article 7, which ...

The assessment of 10 % interconnection target: security of supply, market integration and CO2 impactsDIW Working Paper 2015 - other articlesPublished: 1 of September, 2015

The aims of the present paper are twofold. First, it analyses the applicability of the 10% interconnection indicator with respect to medium/long term security of supply and market integration: Does it accurately consider the SOS situation of the Member ...

Issue paper on the contribution of renewables and energy efficiency to gas securityTowards 2030 Dialogue project - working papersPublished: 1 of November, 2014

This fact-finding paper seeks to identify recent trends in natural gas use and import dependencies in twelve rather vulnerable EU Member States and to analyse the potential to reduce insecurity of external gas supplies of these countries in the short and ...

The EU’s 2030 climate and energy framework and energy securityClimate Strategies 2014 - scholarly articlesPublished: 1 of September, 2014

Climate Strategies has published The EU’s 2030 Climate and Energy Framework and Energy Security study, which contains chapters written by REKK's researchers. The focus of the study assesses the effect of EU's climate policy on the gas security of supply ...

Asymmetric competition in the setting of diesel excise taxes in EU countriesACTA OECONOMICA 2013 - scholarly articlesPublished: 2 of September, 2013

This paper tests new implications of the asymmetric tax competition model on diesel excise taxes. We extend the standard tax competition model by replacing the unit demand assumption with iso-elastic demand. As a result, not only the level of the ...

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 ...