Publications of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 07-065 // 2007

    Hydrogen in Passenger Transport: A Macroeconomic Analysis

    Hydrogen is often seen as a promising future energy carrier given the major reliance of today's transport sector on finite fossil fuels. This working paper assesses the macroeconomic effects of introducing…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 07-064 // 2007

    Climate Policy and Ancillary Benefits - A Survey and Integration into the Modelling of International Negotiations on Climate Change

    Currently informal and formal international negotiations on climate change take place in an intensive way since the Kyoto Protocol expires already in 2012. A post-Kyoto regulation to combat global warming is…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 07-063 // 2007

    Do Equity Preferences Matter in Climate Negotiations? An Experimental Investigation

    This paper investigates in how far equity preferences may matter for climate negotiations. For this purposes we conducted a simple experiment with people who have been involved in international climate policy.…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2007

    The Maximum Incremental Social Tolerable Irreversible Costs (MISTICs) and other Benefits and Costs of Introducing Transgenic Maize in the EU-15.

    The decision to release a new transgenic crop variety for planting in the European Union is a decision under irreversibility and uncertainty. As the decision can also be postponed there exists some flexibility…

  5. Refereed Journal // 2007

    Differentiating the Consumer Benefits from Labelling of GM Food Products

    Although recurrent evidence is found that consumers have different willingness to pay for GM and non-GM products, there is disagreement in the scientific community about the size of consumer benefits from GM…

  6. ZEW/Prognos-Transportmarktbarometer // 2007

    2. Quartal 2007

    Deutlicher Preisanstieg im Strassengüterverkehr erwartet

    Die Kosten für Gütertransporte mit dem Lkw werden im kommenden halben Jahr in Deutschland deutlich steigen. Im internationalen Kombinierten Verkehr sowie…