Publications of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

  1. Discussion and Working Paper // 2000

    Die Koexistenz von Zertifikatemärkten für grünen Strom und CO2-Emissionen - wer gewinnt und wer verliert?

    The paper studies the interaction between emerging markets for tradable green certificates (TGCs) and CO2-emissions in the electricity sector linked by renewable generated electricity (RES-E). We distinguish…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 00-45 // 2000

    Carbon Taxes and Joint Implementation. An Applied General Equilibrium Analysis for Germany and India

    Germany has committed itself to reducing its carbon emissions by 25 percent in 2005 as compared to 1990 emission levels. To achieve this goal, the government has recently launched an environmental tax reform…

  3. ZEW Economic Studies Vol. 10 // 2000

    Innovation-Oriented Environmental Regulation - Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Analysis

    Innovation-oriented environmental regulation is extremely attractive for policy planners and decision makers, since it is expected that innovations can cut costs of environmental measures and overcome existing…

  4. ZEW Economic Studies Vol. 11 // 2000

    Flexible Mechanisms for an Efficient Climate Policy - Cost Saving Policies and Business Opportunities

    In the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, industrialized countries agreed on binding absolute targets for greenhouse gas emissions and on the admission of flexible market-economy…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 00-31 // 2000

    Substitution Elasticities between Capital, Labour, Material, Electricity and Fossil Fuels in German Producing and Service Sectors

    In this paper, substitutional relationships between capital, labour, material, electricity, and fossil fuels in German producing and service sectors are estimated using a translog cost function. Estimates are…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 00-23 // 2000

    The Cost of Phasing Out Nuclear Power. A Quantitative Assessment of Alternative Scenarios for Germany

    In the debate on the phase-out of nuclear power generation in Germany, there is an intense dispute on the effective operating time for the existing nuclear power plants. This paper addresses the question of how…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 00-11 // 2000

    Decomposing the Cost of Kyoto. A Global CGE Analysis of Multilateral Policy Impacts

    We decompose the economic implications of the Kyoto Protocol at the cross-country level, splitting the total economic impact for each region into contributions from its own emission abatement policy and those…