Buying votes with discriminative support for renewable energy technologies

Lotte Ovaere and Stef Proost

No 489944, Working Papers of Department of Economics, Leuven from KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Department of Economics, Leuven

Abstract: This paper uses a political economy model to explain the discriminative support for some renewable technologies like photovoltaic. A two party model is used to show how subsidies for technologies that are installed by household voters can incentivise swing voters to vote for a party. It is in the interest of both the incumbent and the opposition party to propose discriminative support, even if it is highly inefficient.

Date: 2015-03
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Published in CES - Discussion paper series, DPS15.03 pages:1-25

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