More than 80 per cent of the individual energy consumption of households in Germany is used for heating and hot water. Since the majority of installed heating systems still run on fossil fuels, the buildings…
Tax benefits (or "tax expenditures") are important, broadly applicable and potentially efficient instruments for creating incentives for private activities and for promoting numerous policy objectives (for…
Voluntary environmental management programs for firms are a popular instrument of environmental policy. However, the effectiveness of such programs is ambiguous based on the existing literature. We evaluate the…
We study spatially differentiated competition between charities by partnering with two foodbanks in two neighboring cities to conduct a field experiment with roughly 350 donation appeals. We induce spatial…
In this paper, subjective and objective aspects of deprivation are used to derive an aggregated multidimensional measure of energy poverty. The proposed measure is based on deprivation with a direct relation to…
This paper provides a synthesis of the experimental literature on matching subsidies in the context of charitable giving. We classify results according to four different outcome variables frequently considered…
The impact of energy and climate policies often depends on how the market reacts to the policy, i.e. in terms of prices or costs for downstream industries. Economic theory tells us that in power markets, prices…
