Publications of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 12-042 // 2012

    Factors Influencing German House Owners' Preferences on Energy Retrofits

    Driven by the high energy demand for electricity, heating, and cooling, the building sector is a major consumer of fossil fuels and a major emitter of greenhousegases in Germany. Almost a third of the…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 12-043 // 2012

    Green Innovations and Organizational Change: Making Better Use of Environmental Technology

    That the successful use of process technology crucially depends on the right organizational infrastructure is known for a long time as well as the fact that the adoption of new process technology may need…

  3. ZEW/Prognos-Transportmarktbarometer // 2012

    1. Quartal 2012

    Nachlassende wirtschaftliche Dynamik dämpft Güterverkehrsaufkommen

    Die Abschwächung des wirtschaftlichen Aufschwungs dämpft das Güterverkehrsaufkommen. Allerdings wird auf den meisten Transportmärkten auf Sicht…

  4. Expertises // 2012

    Adaptation Measures in the EU: Policies, Costs, and Economic Assessment

    In the report existing policies were shown to be partly insufficient at handling adaptation needs, and thus the inclusion of new measures into existing policies is required. Based on the review of existing…

  5. ZEWnews English edition // 2012

    05/06 - 2012

  6. Expertises // 2012

    Indikatoren für die energiepolitische Zielerreichung

    This expertise is only available in German. Further information can be found on the english project page "A Concept for Monitoring Energy Policy Achievements".

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 12-033 // 2012

    The Impact of Burden Sharing Rules on the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods

    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…