Publications of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

Labour market reforms that are designed to stimulate labour supply at the lower end of the wage distribution can never be precisely restricted to affect only the target group. Spillovers to and feedback from…

The purpose of this paper is to explore the behavioural background for an asymmetric pass-through of input prices at a power spot market. G. Zachmann and C. von Hirschhausen report empirical evidence for such an…

Beruhigung beim Preisauftrieb in der Transportwirtschaft erwartet

Die Verunsicherung hinsichtlich der weiteren Entwicklung von Konjunktur und Außenhandel als den wesentlichen Bestimmungsgrößen der…

• Exporting Companies Exhibit Higher Labour Productivity
• German Innovation Survey 2007 – A Clear Increase in Innovation Expenditure
• Self-Productivity in Early Childhood
• Discussion about Energy Security
• ZEW-Workshop on…

Opponents of the voluntary labeling scheme for genetically modified (GM) food products often argue that consumers have the "right to know" and therefore advocate mandatory labeling. In this paper we argue…