The provision of public goods often faces the problem that agents need to voluntarily decide on their own contributions or – alternatively – have to agree upon some desired provision level of the public good in…
In recent years, the parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN-FCCC) failed to negotiate a follow-up agreement of the Kyoto Protocol. The commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol…
Since the first decades of the 20th century scholarly activity in economics has expanded rapidly. Indeed, the cumulative stock of journal articles in economics has doubled every fourteen years. A century ago,…
Expected Utility theory is not only applied to individual choices but also to social decisions, e.g. in cost-bene t analysis of climate change policy measures that a ect future generations and hence incorporate…
We analyze the stability of ambiguity preferences experimentally, by repeatedly eliciting ambiguity attitudes towards multiple 3-color Ellsberg urns over a period of two months. 57% of the choices show stable…
We examine the role of political fractionalization in understanding the "resource curse". Using panel data for 30 oil-rich countries, we find that the income effect of resource rents is moderated by the…
In this paper, transaction costs of German firms, regulated under the EU emissions trading scheme (EU ETS) are examined empirically. Introduced in 2005, the EU ETS currently regulates carbon dioxide emissions…
