Publications of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-005 // 2014

    Dynamic Market Power in an Exhaustible Resource Industry. The Case of Rare Earth Elements

    This paper investigates China's capability to exert power on Rare Earth markets until 2020. A dynamic partial equilibrium model allowing for a disaggregated representation of the mining sector and endogenous…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2014

    Energy Intensity Developments in 40 Major Economies: Structural Change or Technology Improvement?

    This study analyzes energy intensity trends and drivers in 40 major economies using the WIOD database, a novel harmonized and consistent dataset of input-output table time series accompanied by…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2014

    The effect of regulatory scrutiny: Asymmetric cost pass-through in power wholesale and its end

    We find an asymmetric pass-through of European emission allowance (EUA) prices to wholesale electricity prices in Germany and show that this asymmetry disappeared in response to a report on investigations by the…

  4. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2014

    Burden Sharing in Global Climate Governance

    Academic and policy debates on how to allocate rights and obligations in global climate governance have resulted in various normative criteria, for instance historical responsibility for global warming,…