Publications of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

  1. Refereed Journal // 2016

    Emissions Trading in the Presence of Price-Regulated Polluting Firms: How Costly Are Free Allowances?

    We study whether to auction or to freely distribute emissions allowances when some firms participating in emissions trading are subject to price regulation. We show that free allowances allocated to…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2016

    Cross-Country Electricity Trade, Renewable Energy and European Transmission Infrastructure Policy

    This paper develops a multi-country multi-sector general equilibrium model, integrating high-frequency electricity dispatch and trade decisions, to study the effects of electricity transmission…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2016

    Household Heterogeneity, Aggregation, and Distributional Impacts of Environmental Taxes

    This paper examines how the general equilibrium incidence of an environmental tax depends on the effect of different incomes and preferences of heterogeneous households on aggregate outcomes. We develop a…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 16-091 // 2016

    The Power of Active Choice: Field Experimental Evidence on Repeated Contribution Decisions to a Carbon Offsetting Program

    We study the effect of a subtle change in the choice architecture on offsetting behavior. In a large-scale field experiment, we examine repeated voluntary contributions to a carbon offsetting program during the…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 16-090 // 2016

    Fuel for Inequality: Distributional Effects of Environmental Reforms on Private Transport

    This paper provides the first empirical evidence of the distributional effects of subsidies for the purchase of alternative vehicles based on an extended version of Hausman's exact consumer surplus. Consistently…