Publications of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

Significant policy effort is devoted to stimulate the development, adoption and diffusion of environmentally-friendly technology. Sceptics worry about the effects of regulation-induced environmental technology…

This paper presents the METal ResOurces (METRO) model, a partial equilibrium model tailored for metal markets. It allows for a disaggregated representation of the mining sector and endogenous investment in…

Beim Gütertransport ist bis Mitte 2014 mit steigenden Preisen zu rechnen

Die Stimmung in der deutschen Transportbranche verbessert sich weiter. Für nahezu alle Transportzweige und Relationen zeichnet sich auf…

• Who is "Any Individual"? Cartel Suppliers' Standing to Claim Damages in Antitrust Actions
• Europe's Stainless Steel Industry Needs Open Global Markets for Key Raw Materials
• Integrating Immigrants Into the Labour…

This report presents the Basic WIOD CGE model. The model represents the first implementation of the World Input-Output Database (WIOD) into the CGE framework and is tailored to provide a maximum fit with WIOD…

This North-South model of Schumpeterian endogenous growth combines a market, productivity and knowledge effect. A set of various convergent and divergent growth paths is derived that is much richer than in the…

We scrutinize the impact of international productivity gains (spillovers) induced by imports and exports on optimal tariffs. First, we solve a stylized 2x2 trade model of a large open economy and show that (a)…

We hypothesize that North-South trade is associated with knowledge spillovers that create labor productivity gains depending on various determinants of Southern absorptive capacity. We use the novel World…