Publications of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

  1. ZEW/Prognos-Transportmarktbarometer // 2006

    1. Quartal 2006

    Moderate Preissteigerungen bei steigendem Transportaufkommen

    Die Transportbranche erwartet in den nächsten sechs Monaten vor dem Hintergrund einer mittlerweile optimistischer bewerteten Konjunktur- und…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 06-030 // 2006

    Economic Effects of VAT Reform in Germany

    In the tax policy debate, differentiation of value-added taxes is often justified by distributional concerns. Our quantitative analysis for Germany indicates that such concerns are misplaced. We find that the…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 06-018 // 2006

    Efficiency Losses from Overlapping Economic Instruments in European Carbon Emissions Regulation

    Energy markets and energy-intensive industries in all EU member states – especially in Germany – are subject to a diverse set of policies related to climate change. We analyse the potential efficiency losses…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 06-007 // 2006

    Combining Top-Down and Bottom-up in Energy Policy Analysis: A Decomposition Approach

    The formulation of market equilibrium problems as mixed complementarity problems (MCP)permits integration of bottom-up programming models of the energy system into top-down general equilibrium models of the…