Publikationen des Forschungsbereichs Umwelt- und Klimaökonomik

  1. Beiträge in Sammel- und Tagungsbänden // 2022

    Jenseits der Logik des Marktes. Marcel Mauss, die Theorie der Gabe und die Idee einer friedlichen Welt

    Marcel Mauss schrieb 1924, er habe in den Motiven des „archaischen“ Gabentauschs vormoderner Gesellschaften „einen der Felsen gefunden, auf denen unsere Gesellschaften ruhen.“ Gabenpraktiken bestehen auch in…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 22-051 // 2022

    Executive Compensation Tied to ESG Performance: International Evidence

    This paper examines the reliance on ESG metrics in executive compensation contracts. In our sample of international publicly traded firms, a rapidly growing fraction incorporate ESG metrics in the compensation…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 22-052 // 2022

    Corporate Carbon Emission Statements

    Current corporate disclosures regarding carbon emissions lack commonly accepted accounting rules. The accrual accounting system for carbon emissions described here is grounded in the rules of historical cost…

  4. ZEW-Dokumentation Nr. 22-01 // 2022

    ME-FINE: Mannheim European panel on Financial Indicators and Emissions

    The Mannheim European panel on Financial Indicators and Emissions (ME-FINE) is a new European company-level dataset, combining financial information from Bureau van Dijk’s Orbis database with data on pollutant…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 22-042 // 2022

    Lessons From the EU Effort Sharing Decision for Supranational Climate Cooperation: A Firm-Level Analysis

    As an example of supranational climate policy coordination for sectors not covered by carbon trading, the European Effort Sharing Decision set national targets for emission reductions for the time period…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 22-040 // 2022

    Motivate the Crowd or Crowd-Them Out? The Impact of Local Government Spending on the Voluntary Provision of a Green Public Good

    Cities are increasingly hold accountable for climate action. By demonstrating their pro-environmentality through own climate-related activities, they not at least aspire to encourage individual climate…