Publications of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

Social norms can help to foster cooperation and to overcome the free-rider problem in private provision of public goods. This paper focuses on the enforcement of social norms by a self-introduced punishment and…

Main Results of the Survey:

• At the Beginning of the Third Trading Period Persistently Low CO2 Prices Barely Lead to CO2 Abatement Measures
• The Price of Emission Allowances Needs to Be About EUR 30 per tCO2, i.e.…

Moderate Zunahme bei Transportmengen und Preisen erwartet

Die deutschen Transportmärkte präsentieren sich derzeit recht robust. Die Aussichten für ein weiteres Wachstum der Transportmengen sind gut, allerdings…

Within the last few decades, rising environmental concerns have forced policy-makers to act in an effort to mitigate further harm. Yet though greenhouse gas emissions and the wasteful use of natural resources…

• Some Government Redistribution Measures Shown to Reduce Income Inequality
• Deployment of Fibre Optic Networks: Making Public Subsidies more Efficient
• Households Insured Against Flooding Take more Precautionary…

In this experiment, we endogenize the choice of which contribution scheme is implemented in a public goods game. We investigate three rule-based contribution schemes. In a first step, players agree on a common…