Publications of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

  1. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Eliciting preferences for urban parks

    The hedonic pricing method has been used extensively to obtain implicit prices for availability of urban green space, but few have obtained households' preference parameters. We elicit preferences and estimate…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2018

    (Fast) kostenloser Nahverkehr: Dominanz der Preis- oder Verhaltenswirkung?

    Due to exceeding nitrogen dioxide levels in German cities and an impending lawsuit of the EU, a debate on free public local transport as a potential solution has evolved starting in summer 2018. This…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Strategic Delegation and International Permit Markets: Why Linking May Fail

    We analyse a delegation problem in the context of international climate policy. Principals in two countries first decide whether to merge domestic emission permit markets to an international market, then…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Climate Policy under Factor Mobility: A (Differentiated) Case for Capital Taxation

    In a general equilibrium model with two periods and a finite fossil resource, I analyze the non-cooperative climate policies of symmetric countries that are in competition for mobile factors of production…

  5. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Flexibility in the Market for International Carbon Credits and Price Dynamics Difference with European Allowances

    The Paris Agreement establishes a mechanism which allows a Party to benefit from greenhouse gas emissions reductions conducted in a host Party to fulfil its nationally determined contribution. In this context,…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 18-041 // 2018

    Experimental and Non-Experimental Evidence on Limited Attention and Present Bias at the Gym

    We show that limited attention and present bias contribute to low levels of exercise. First, in a large randomized experiment, we find that email reminders increase gym visits by 13 % and that they benefit…