Publications of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 01-58 // 2001

    Market Power in International Emission Trading

    This paper investigates the implications of U.S. withdrawal on environmental effectiveness, economic efficiency, and the distribution of compliance costs taking into account market power of the Former Soviet…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 01-53 // 2001

    Simulated z-Tests in Multinomial Probit Models

    Within the framework of Monte Carlo experiments, this paper systematically compares different versions of the simulated z-test (using the GHK simulator) in one and multiperiod multinomial probit models. One…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 01-52 // 2001

    EU Enlargement and Environmental Policy

    The Eastern European Associates (EEA) have committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions according to their targets set in the Kyoto Protocol. Furthermore since 1993 trade liberalization has taken place between…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 01-45 // 2001

    Green Tax Reform and Employment: The Interaction of Profit and Factor Taxes

    The employment effects of an ecological tax reform depend decisively on the presence of a profit tax and on the extent to which profits are taxed. This is shown in a model where firms have monopoly power on…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 01-27 // 2001

    Rejecting Capital-Skill Complementarity at all Costs

    Any serious empirical study of factor substitutability has to allow the data to display complementarity as well as substitutability. The standard approach reflecting this idea is a translog specification –…

  6. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2001

    Assessing the Costs of Compliance: The Kyoto Protocol