This paper explores the ability of European refineries to pass-through costs associated with the introduction of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). A sequence of vector error correction models (VECM)…
Unilateral emission reduction commitments raise concerns on international competitiveness and emission leakage that result in preferential regulatory treatment of domestic energy-intensive and trade-exposed…
Reforms, such as a higher pension age, are highly unpopular although they are a demographic necessity. Hence, a sound understanding of reform resistance is desirable. Preceding studies have explored numerous…
The empirical literature on the economics of patents employs a large array of patentbased measures to proxy economic characteristics of patents such as the "sciencebase", "importance" or "value" of patented…
In recent years, the parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) failed to negotiate a follow‐up agreement of the Kyoto Protocol. The commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol…
Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings
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