Publications of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

  1. Refereed Journal // 2013

    Intergenerational Aspects of Ecotax Reforms – an Application to Germany

    In a model of overlapping generations and majority voting, we analyze an ecotax reform consisting of the tax rate and the budgetary rule. Revenue can be recycled through a lump-sum transfer or a…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2013

    Political Influence on Non-cooperative International Climate Policy

    We analyze non-cooperative international climate policy in a setting of political competition by national interest groups. In the first stage, countries decide whether to link their domestic emission …

  3. Discussion and Working Paper // 2013

    Limited Sectoral Trading between the EU-ETS and China

    In the negotiations of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), new market mechanisms are proposed to involve Non-Annex I countries in the carbon markets developed by Annex I…

  4. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2013

    The young prisoner’s dilemma: Juvenile recidivism in Germany

    This chapter reviews the literature of juvenile recidivism and provides an in depth analysis of recent evidence from Germany. While the empirical literature shows that transferring juveniles to criminal courts…

  5. Refereed Journal // 2013

    Classification and valuation of urban green spaces - A hedonic house price valuation

    In this paper we propose a categorization of green space into eight different types and quantify their impact on housing prices in the city of Aalborg using the hedonic house price method. The categorization was…

  6. Refereed Journal // 2013

    Higher and higher? Performance pay and wage inequality in Germany

    Performance pay is of growing importance to the wage structu re as it applies to a rising share of employees. At the same time wage dispersion is growing continuously. This leads to the question of how the…