Publications of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

  1. Expertises // 2014

    Indicators of energy innovation systems and their dynamics

    This report on indicators of energy innovation system is produced in the context of the “EIS – Strategic research alliance for Energy Innovation Systems and their dynamics – Denmark in global competition” as…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-005 // 2014

    Dynamic Market Power in an Exhaustible Resource Industry. The Case of Rare Earth Elements

    This paper investigates China's capability to exert power on Rare Earth markets until 2020. A dynamic partial equilibrium model allowing for a disaggregated representation of the mining sector and endogenous…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2014

    Energy Intensity Developments in 40 Major Economies: Structural Change or Technology Improvement?

    This study analyzes energy intensity trends and drivers in 40 major economies using the WIOD database, a novel harmonized and consistent dataset of input-output table time series accompanied by…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2014

    The effect of regulatory scrutiny: Asymmetric cost pass-through in power wholesale and its end

    We find an asymmetric pass-through of European emission allowance (EUA) prices to wholesale electricity prices in Germany and show that this asymmetry disappeared in response to a report on investigations by the…