Publications of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 13-007 // 2013

    Modeling Technological Change in Economic Models of Climate Change: A Survey

    The assessment of climate change mitigation policies mainly depends on three not mutually exclusive modeling decisions: First, the chosen discount rate, since costs are incurred today and long-term benefits…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 13-006 // 2013

    Revealed Preferences for Climate Protection when the Purely Individual Perspective is Relaxed - Evidence from a Framed Field Experiment

    Since the problem of climate change has drawn attention both in political and academic agenda, the question of how much people are willing to pay for the mitigation of global warming has been a subject of keen…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 13-005 // 2013

    Trade and the Environment: An Application of the WIOD Database

    At times, the term structural change has been used largely in debates regarding increasing unemployment in industrial nations because of movements of industries into low-wage countries. Therefore, structural…

  4. ZEW-Energiemarktbarometer // 2013

    Januar/Februar 2013

    Traum oder Albtraum? Aussichten für die Förderung unkonventioneller Gase in Europa

    Energiewirtschaft: Versorgungssicherheit

    • Weiterhin kritische Einschätzung der Stromversorgungssicherheit
    • Öl langfristig kritisch –…
  5. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2013

    Modeling technological change

  6. Refereed Journal // 2013

    Capital-Energy Relationships: An Analysis when Disaggregating by Industry and Different Types of Capital

    In this paper we analyze the relationship between capital and energy through cross price elasticities. First, we extend Thomsen's (2000) methodology in order to link the short and long run in a panel data…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 13-001 // 2013

    Nonlinearity in Cap-and-Trade Systems: The EUA Price and its Fundamentals

    Since the introduction of the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) in 2005, a new area of research has developed within the field of applied econometrics: Carbon Finance. Carbon Finance focuses on the analysis…

  8. ZEW-Wachstums- und Konjunkturanalysen // 2013

    Nr. 1 (März) - 2013

    • Der Optimismus kehrt vorsichtig zurück
    • Die voraussichtliche Lage in der EWU
    • Ergebnisse der Märzumfrage 2013
    • Verbesserte Geschäftslage sorgt für gute Stimmung zu Jahresbeginn
    • Mittelfristprojektion für Deutschland:…