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Effective nudges to go green!

Geoff Riley

27th August 2015

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Solar panel subsidies work best if the government pays for the installation costs than if it buys generated energy. That is the central finding of research by Olivier De Groote and Frank Verboven, to be presented at the annual congress of the European Economic Association in Mannheim in August 2015.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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