Publications of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 08-050 // 2008

    Technological Uncertainty and Cost-effectiveness of CO2 Emission Trading Schemes

    This paper studies implications of uncertainty about the arrival date of a competitive CO2 backstop technology for the design of cost-effective CO2 emission trading schemes. For this purpose, we develop a…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 08-049 // 2008

    Employment Impacts of EU Biofuels Policy: Combining Bottom-up Technology Information and Sectoral Market Simulations in an Input-output Framework

    This paper analyses the employment consequences of policies aimed to support biofuels in the European Union. The promotion of biofuel use has been advocated as a means to promote the sustainable use of natural…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 08-043 // 2008

    Heterogeneous Labour Markets in a Microsimulation-AGE Model: Application to Welfare Reform in Germany

    Labour market reforms that are designed to stimulate labour supply at the lower end of the wage distribution can never be precisely restricted to affect only the target group. Spillovers to and feedback from…