1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 07-064 // 2007

    Climate Policy and Ancillary Benefits - A Survey and Integration into the Modelling of International Negotiations on Climate Change

    Currently informal and formal international negotiations on climate change take place in an intensive way since the Kyoto Protocol expires already in 2012. A post-Kyoto regulation to combat global warming is…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 07-063 // 2007

    Do Equity Preferences Matter in Climate Negotiations? An Experimental Investigation

    This paper investigates in how far equity preferences may matter for climate negotiations. For this purposes we conducted a simple experiment with people who have been involved in international climate policy.…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 07-062 // 2007

    Search Patterns and Absorptive Capacity: A Comparison of Low- and High-Technology Firms from Thirteen European Countries

    Searching for externally available knowledge has been characterised as a vital part of the innovation process. Previous research has, however, almost exclusively focused on hightechnology environments, largely…

  4. Financial Market Report CEE // 2007

    November 2007

    • Economic Expectations for CEE Region Resume Downward Trend
    • Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia: Good Situation, Weaker Economic Expectations
    • Croatia, Hungary, and Romania: Mixed Situation, Mixed Outlook
    • Special…
  5. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2007

    Germany

  6. ZEW-Finanzmarktreport // 2007

    November 2007

    • Erste Stabilisierungstendenzen
    • EZB: Unsicherheit über Kurs der EZB
    • USA: Arbeitsmarktdaten sorgen für Entspannung
    • Japan: Tankan-Bericht bringt neue Hoffnung
    • Großbritannien: Erste Zinssenkungen erwartet
    • Sonderfrage:…
  7. Refereed Journal // 2007

    The Maximum Incremental Social Tolerable Irreversible Costs (MISTICs) and other Benefits and Costs of Introducing Transgenic Maize in the EU-15.

    The decision to release a new transgenic crop variety for planting in the European Union is a decision under irreversibility and uncertainty. As the decision can also be postponed there exists some flexibility…

  8. Refereed Journal // 2007

    Differentiating the Consumer Benefits from Labelling of GM Food Products

    Although recurrent evidence is found that consumers have different willingness to pay for GM and non-GM products, there is disagreement in the scientific community about the size of consumer benefits from GM…