Publications of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

  1. Refereed Journal // 2013

    Quantifying regional economic impacts of CO2 intensity targets in China

    To address rising energy use and CO2 emissions, China's leadership has enacted energy and CO2 intensity targets under the Twelfth Five-Year Plan (2011–2015), which are defined at both the national and provincial…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2013

    A Numerical Investigation of the Potential for Negative Emissions Leakage

    Emissions restrictions in one region may decrease emissions elsewhere (negative leakage), as increased demand for capital and labor to abate emissions in constrained regions may reduce output in unconstrained…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2013

    Fiscal Consolidation and Climate Policy: An Overlapping Generations Perspective

    This paper examines the distributional and efficiency impacts of public debt consolidation financed through a carbon tax employing a dynamic general-equilibrium model with overlapping generations of the U.S.…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2013

    Intergenerational Aspects of Ecotax Reforms – an Application to Germany

    In a model of overlapping generations and majority voting, we analyze an ecotax reform consisting of the tax rate and the budgetary rule. Revenue can be recycled through a lump-sum transfer or a…

  5. Refereed Journal // 2013

    Political Influence on Non-cooperative International Climate Policy

    We analyze non-cooperative international climate policy in a setting of political competition by national interest groups. In the first stage, countries decide whether to link their domestic emission …

  6. Discussion and Working Paper // 2013

    Limited Sectoral Trading between the EU-ETS and China

    In the negotiations of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), new market mechanisms are proposed to involve Non-Annex I countries in the carbon markets developed by Annex I…