Publications of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

We investigate the prospects of voluntary ecological sufficiency for environmental and climate policy under the constraints implied by political liberalism. We find that freedom of choice restricts sufficiency…

We investigate the prospects of voluntary ecological sufficiency for environmental and climate policy under the constraints implied by political liberalism. We find that freedom of choice restricts sufficiency…

• Experten erwarten erst mittelfristig wieder steigende Energiepreise

• Versorgungssicherheit: Lage entspannt sich

• Why and How There Should Be More Europe in Asylum Policies
• Personal Contact with Tax Authority Increases Tax Compliance of Businesses
• German Businesses Maintain High Level of Innovation Expenditures
• Financially…

This paper aims at characterizing the conditions of wind power deployment in order to infer a carbon price level that would provide wind power with comparable advantage over fossil fuel technologies as effective…

Union representation has been in strong decline in most OECD countries with potentially important consequences for wages. What drives this decline? We try to answer this question by developing and implementing a…

Harmonising Climate Compatibility and Competition – Outcomes and Approaches to Solutions from Climate Economics With its research focus “The economics of climate change”, the German Federal Ministry for…

In this paper, we investigate both short- and long-term impacts of financial stimuli on public goods provision when contributions are tied to individual harm-related behavior. We conduct a large-scale field …