Publications of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

  1. Refereed Journal // 2019

    The impacts of the EU ETS on efficiency and economic performance – An empirical analyses for German manufacturing firms

    We investigate the effect of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) on the economic performance of manufacturing firms in Germany. Our difference-in-differences framework relies on several…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2019

    The Demand for Index‐Based Flood Insurance in a High‐Income Country

    Increased flooding is expected to be one of the greatest threats caused by climate change. Flood insurance helps to cope with the risk of flooding, but take-up rates are relatively low in many places. Mainly in…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Differentiated Carbon Prices and the Economic Cost of Decarbonization

    Employing a numerical general equilibrium model with multiple fuels, end-use sectors, heterogeneous households, and transport externalities, this paper examines three motives for differentiated carbon pricing in…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Deep transformations of the energy sector: A model of technology investment choice

    Economy-energy equilibrium models have emerged as a dominant tool to investigate future pathways taking into account technological aspects, economic behavior, markets, and policy. A challenge for any model is to…

  5. Refereed Journal // 2018

    The Intergenerational Incidence of a Green Tax Reform

    We examine the lifetime incidence and intergenerational distributional effects of an economy-wide carbon tax swap using a numerical dynamic general equilibrium model with overlapping generations of the U.S.…

  6. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Capturing natural resource heterogeneity in top-down energy-economic equilibrium models

    Top-down energy-economic modeling approaches often use simplified techniques to represent heterogeneous resource inputs to production. We show that for some policies, such as feed-in tariffs for renewable…

  7. Refereed Journal // 2018

    How robust is the uniform emissions pricing rule to social equity concerns?

    This paper examines pollution tax differentiation across industries in light of social equity concerns using theoretical and numerical general equilibrium analyses in an optimal tax framework. We…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 18-058 // 2018

    Using Emissions Trading Schemes to Reduce Heterogeneous Distortionary Taxes: the Case of Recycling Carbon Auction Revenues to Support Renewable Energy

    While emissions trading schemes are developed by nations to mitigate their greenhouse gas emissions, behavioural studies have shown that the political and public acceptability of these market-based instruments…