Publications of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 13-008 // 2013

    How Can Pure Social Discounting be Ethically Justified?

    The evaluation of long-term eects of climate change in cost-benet analysis has a long tradition in environmental economics. Since the publication of the Stern Review in 2006 the debate about the "appropriate"…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 13-007 // 2013

    Modeling Technological Change in Economic Models of Climate Change: A Survey

    The assessment of climate change mitigation policies mainly depends on three not mutually exclusive modeling decisions: First, the chosen discount rate, since costs are incurred today and long-term benefits…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 13-006 // 2013

    Revealed Preferences for Climate Protection when the Purely Individual Perspective is Relaxed - Evidence from a Framed Field Experiment

    Since the problem of climate change has drawn attention both in political and academic agenda, the question of how much people are willing to pay for the mitigation of global warming has been a subject of keen…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 13-005 // 2013

    Trade and the Environment: An Application of the WIOD Database

    At times, the term structural change has been used largely in debates regarding increasing unemployment in industrial nations because of movements of industries into low-wage countries. Therefore, structural…

  5. ZEW-Energiemarktbarometer // 2013

    Januar/Februar 2013

    Traum oder Albtraum? Aussichten für die Förderung unkonventioneller Gase in Europa

    Energiewirtschaft: Versorgungssicherheit

    • Weiterhin kritische Einschätzung der Stromversorgungssicherheit
    • Öl langfristig kritisch –…
  6. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2013

    Modeling technological change