Publications of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

  1. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2017

    Die Zukunft der Energiewende in Deutschland

  2. Refereed Journal // 2017

    Zum Stromkonsum von Haushalten in Grundsicherung: Eine empirische Analyse für Deutschland

    In diesem Aufsatz werden Stromkonsum und Stromkosten von Haushalten in Grundsicherung in Deutschland untersucht. Dazu wird ein Datensatz ausgewertet, der mehr als 19.500 Haushalte mit Leistungsbezug nach SGB II…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2017

    The Future of Foreign Aid in a Globalizing World with Climate Change

    This essay discusses a forward-looking integrated policy concept of foreign aid in a globalizing world with climate change. First, it opts for an integrated treatment of short-term aid, striving for the urgent…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2017

    Voting for Burden Sharing Rules in Public Goods Games

    We experimentally investigate whether groups of heterogeneous agents can reach an agreement on how to share the costs of providing a public good. Thereby, we explore the performance of different burden sharing…

  5. Refereed Journal // 2017

    Prospect Theory, Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change

    Prospect theory (PT) is a widely accepted theory for decisions under uncertainty. However, so far a systematic application to climate policy (CP) does not exist. One important postulation of PT is that outcomes…

  6. Refereed Journal // 2017

    The Impact of Administrative Transaction Costs in the EU Emissions Trading System

    This paper empirically investigates the impact of transaction costs for monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) of emissions on companies regulated by the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) in Germany.…

  7. Refereed Journal // 2016

    Air quality co-benefits of subnational carbon policies

    To mitigate climate change, governments ranging from city to multi-national have adopted greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets. While the location of GHG reductions does not affect their climate…