Publications of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 10-072 // 2010

    Voting in International Environmental Agreements - Experimental Evidence from the Lab

    The management of global environmental resources, such as the global climate, requires cooperation between countries. In practice, countries willing to abate the emission of a pollutant that damages a shared…

  2. Expertises // 2010

    Entwicklung globaler Emission Reduction Credit Systems bei Fehlen eines internationalen Folgeabkommens für das Kioto-Protokoll

    This paper analyses the state of climate policy in different countries and regions of the world. Possible supply and demand for emission reduction credits until 2020 is derived quantitatively in the PACE-model…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 10-067 // 2010

    Industrial Ecology in Policy Making: What is Achievable and what is not?

    Industrial Ecology is a relatively new, interdisciplinary field of research, analysing the interaction between industrial activity and nature. Within this field, a multitude of instruments has been developed.…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 10-065 // 2010

    The Impact of Regulation-driven Environmental Innovation on Innovation Success and Firm Performance

    It is widely agreed in the literature that environmental innovation is not only determined by market pull and technology push factors but also depends on regulatory incentives. There is an ongoing debate on how…

  5. ZEW/Prognos-Transportmarktbarometer // 2010

    2. Quartal 2010

    ZEW/ProgTrans-Umfrage unter Transportmarktexperten - Wachsende Transportmengen und steigende Preise im nächsten halben Jahr erwartet

    Im kommenden halben Jahr ist in der deutschen Transportwirtschaft mit einer…

  6. ZEWnews English edition // 2010

    No. 4 - 2010

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 10-061 // 2010

    Individual Adaptation to Climate Change: The Role of Information and Perceived Risk

    Climate change is seen as a problem facing current and future generations. Two measures exist in order to cope with its potential effects: mitigation and adaptation. Mitigation describes all measures which aim…