Publications of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 17-025 // 2017

    Strategic Delegation and International Permit Markets: Why Linking May Fail

    We analyse a principal-agent relationship in the context of international climate policy. Principals in two countries first decide whether to merge domestic emission permit markets to an international market,…

  2. ZEWnews English edition // 2017

    05/06 - 2017

  3. Refereed Journal // 2017

    Repeated Pro-Social Behavior in the Presence of Economic Interventions

    We investigate the immediate and subsequent effects of two prominent drivers of charitable giving: a charitable lottery and an income tax. Employing a modified two-round dictator game with the subject’s charity…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2017

    The Political Economy of Mitigation vs. Adaptation

    Climate policies have very uneven effects in terms of their fiscal impact. While mitigation of climate change typically raises revenues, adaptation is costly to the taxpayer, and the more so, the more …

  5. ZEWnews English edition // 2017

    03/04 - 2017

  6. Non-Refereed Journal // 2017

    Sozialpolitische Konsequenzen der Energiewende

    Ambitionierte Klimapolitik führt zu strukturellen ökonomischen Veränderungen. Dieser Artikel untersucht, welche Verteilungseffekte daraus für private Haushalte entstehen und wie diese gemindert werden können.

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 17-012 // 2017

    Leveling Up? An Inter-Neighborhood Experiment on Parochialism and the Efficiency of Multi-level Public Goods Provision

    Many public goods can be provided at different spatial levels. Evidence from social identity theory and in-group favoritism raises the possibility that where higher-level provision is more efficient, subjects'…