Erwartungen für die Transportbranche verbessern sich wieder
In den kommenden sechs Monaten ist in Deutschland mit einem überwiegend moderaten Anstieg der Transportpreise im Güterverkehr zu rechnen. Gleichzeitig…
As the residential buildings sector accounts for around 30 percent of the final energy demand in Germany, this sector is increasingly becoming the focus of public attention with regard to climate change. In this…
Regional economies significantly diverge in their exposure as well as their capacity to adapt to climate change and variability. Between 1984 and 2004, if measured in percent GDP, costs of climate impacts were…
The objective of this study is the economic analysis of the Decarbonisation Roadmap 2050, recently published by the EU Commission. The Decarbonisation Roadmap is the latest strategy to make the decarbonisation…
We introduce endogenous directed technical change into integrated multi-region policy assessment based on macroeconomic theory and evidence. Technical progress can be directed towards labor or energy savings.…
The EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) is the most important European instrument for climate protection and in Germany covers about half of CO2 emissions. Since 2009 the KfW/ZEW CO2 Barometer has been…
As part of a cooperative project with KfW Bankengruppe, the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) is conducting a market survey among participants and experts of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme. The goal…
The ongoing economic criticism of the German Renewable Energy Act (EEG) recently started focusing on distributional effects, too. A team of authors at the Cologne Institute for Economic Research is worried about…