Publications of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-086 // 2014

    Combining International Cap-and-Trade with National Carbon Taxes

    This paper examines the effects of combining an international cap-and-trade scheme with national carbon taxes. We consider a two-country stochastic partial equilibrium model with log-normally distributed…

  2. Expertises // 2014

    Social Implications of Green Growth Policies from the Perspective of Energy Sector Reform and its Impact on Households

    This issue note focusses on distributional consequences of energy sector reform at the household level with a strong focus on energy taxation. Taxation of energy is a prominent instrument in environmental…

  3. ZEWnews English edition // 2014

    09/10 - 2014

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-075 // 2014

    Improving Voluntary Public Good Provision by a Non-Governmental, Endogenous Matching Mechanism: Experimental Evidence

    Social norms can help to foster cooperation and to overcome the free-rider problem in private provision of public goods. This paper focuses on the enforcement of social norms by a self-introduced punishment and…

  5. KfW/ZEW CO2 Panel // 2014

    2014 – Carbon Edition

    Main Results of the Survey:

    • At the Beginning of the Third Trading Period Persistently Low CO2 Prices Barely Lead to CO2 Abatement Measures
    • The Price of Emission Allowances Needs to Be About EUR 30 per tCO2, i.e.…
  6. ZEW/Prognos-Transportmarktbarometer // 2014

    2. Quartal 2014

    Moderate Zunahme bei Transportmengen und Preisen erwartet

    Die deutschen Transportmärkte präsentieren sich derzeit recht robust. Die Aussichten für ein weiteres Wachstum der Transportmengen sind gut, allerdings…

  7. ZEW policy brief No. 14-01 // 2014

    Climate-Related Innovations, Crowding Out, and Their Impact on Competitiveness

    Within the last few decades, rising environmental concerns have forced policy-makers to act in an effort to mitigate further harm. Yet though greenhouse gas emissions and the wasteful use of natural resources…