Publications of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

• Discussion over Eurozone Reform Must Respond to Italian Election Result
• Growing Demand for Electric Cars Poses a Challenge for the Energy Sector
• EU General Data Protection Regulation – German Businesses Under…

Diesel technology and the harm that its use causes in the form of local and global pollutant emissions have long been in the focus of environmental policy debates. Even the option of imposing driving bans on…

We conduct a framed field experiment in Indonesian fishing communities, with an eye towards evaluating alternative decision-making processes for setting extraction restrictions to preserve coral reef fisheries…

This article investigates factors correlated with the suspension of electricity supply in German households because of utility arrears. Utility arrears and power cut-offs occur frequently in households which…

• Wie die zunehmende Elektromobilität die Energiebranche herausfordert
• Energiepreise stagnieren kurzfristig
• Versorgungssicherheit weitgehend stabil

I investigate the impact of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) on fuel efficiency of fossil fuel power plants using administrative micro data on power plants in Germany from 2003 to 2012. I…

A new type of player occurs in the sharing economy: a vertically integrated consumer who owns production facilities and has direct market access, often termed “active prosumer”. The prosumer faces a trade-off…

This paper presents an analysis of the recent developments of average market power in Europe by using a broad firm-level database for EU member states. To indicate competitive pressure at the firm-level, markups…