Publications of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

This review summarizes the empirical literature on the effects of natural disasters and weather variations on international trade and financial flows. Regarding the effects on trade, I summarize 21 studies of 18…

Is a firm’s ability to export an important determinant of environmental performance? To answer this question, we construct a unique micro dataset that merged two rich firm-level datasets for China for 2007. When…

• Views of French, German and Italian Parliamentarians on EU and EMU Reforms
• Hotels Get Worse Rankings When Listed Cheaper on Other Websites
• “Better Trade-Secret Protection Can Have Adverse Effects on the…

Voluntary environmental management programs for firms have become an increasingly popular instrument of environmental policy. However, the literature’s conclusion on the effectiveness of such programs is…

This paper studies the effect of forward contracts on the stability of collusion among firms, competing in supply functions on the spot market. A forward market can increase the range of discount factors which…

• EU-Emissionshandel – Reformen mit Erfolg
• Versorgungssicherheit insgesamt stabil, für Strom und Öl langfristig sinkende Prognose

We investigate how the introduction of an Active Choice requirement influences subject proclivity to contribute to an impure public good in one time and repeated interactions. In a large-scale field experiment,…

• Germany Least Attractive Location for Taxing Digital Business Models
• German Innovation-Oriented Sectors Struggle to Fill Vacancies with Qualified Staff
• “Significant Coordination Problems May Be Encountered…