Publikationen des Forschungsbereichs Umwelt- und Klimaökonomik

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 25-065 // 2025

    Fair Market Value of Used Capacity Assets: Forecasts for Repurposed Electric Vehicle Batteries

    In response to growing economic and environmental concerns, companies in a range of industries seek to repurpose products (assets) that retain functional capacity beyond their initial first life. This paper…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 25-064 // 2025

    Turbulence Ahead: Economic Policies for Decarbonizing Aviation

    We study the design of climate policy for hard-to-abate sectors, focusing on global aviation. We build a spatial equilibrium model that links ticket booking data, the global airline network, and…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 25-060 // 2025

    Do Energy-Saving Nudges Deliver During High-Price Periods? Field Experimental Evidence From the European Energy Crisis

    Urged by the European Energy Crisis and the threatening consequences of severe natural gas shortages, energy providers launched gas-saving initiatives incorporating financial incentives to reduce residential…

  4. ZEW Monthly // 2025

    10/2025 – Ökologie mitdenken

    Nachhaltigkeit endet nicht bei ökologischen Zielen – sie greift tief in soziale und wirtschaftliche Prozesse ein. Doch wo Ziele aufeinandertreffen, entstehen Spannungen: Besserer Arbeitsschutz kann Emissionen…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 25-047 // 2025

    Rising Energy Prices Without Falling Consumption? The Role of Energy Price Dispersion in a Multi-Product World

    Governments around the world are under pressure to reduce industrial energy use and emissions without losing out to international competition. For this reason, climate policies often come with exemptions or…

  6. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2025

    Mobilizing credit for clean energy: De-risking and public loan provision under learning spillovers

    This paper analyzes bank lending behavior toward novel clean energy technologies in the presence of high screening costs and potential learning-by-lending. In a two-period model, bank loans in the first period…

  7. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2025

    Support for Renewable Energy: The Case of Wind Power

    The rise of societal goals like climate change mitigation and energy security calls for rapid capacity growth in renewable electricity sources, yet citizens’ support is put to a test when such technologies emit…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 25-041 // 2025

    Biodiversity Engel Curves: Estimating How Income and Inequality Shape Consumption- Driven Biodiversity Loss

    We examine the relationship between household incomes and the biodiversity footprints of consumption in the United States from 1996 to 2022. Combining detailed household expenditure surveys…

  9. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 25-021 // 2025

    The Welfare Effects of Explicit and Implicit Subsidies on Fossil Fuels

    We examine the welfare effects of removing explicit and implicit fossil fuel subsidies, the latter entailing Pigouvian pricing of local externalities from fossil energy consumption. We map a multi-region,…