Representing one research project within the European Competitiveness Report 2007, this research project assessed the competitiveness effects of trading emissions and fostering technologies to meet the EU emission…
The integrated Project PLUREL will develop new strategies and innovative planning and forecasting tools that are essential for developing sustainable rural-urban land use relationships. These strategies and tools,…
The project aims to investigate economically relevant aspects of genetically modified (GM) food by means of laboratory experiments. Specifically, the research will be concerned with issues of valuation on the…
Content of the study: 1) Analysis of the financial performance of equity portfolios based on Bank Sarasins assessment of the companies sustainability performance.2) The analysis will be based on the comparison of…
Computable general equilibrium (CGE) models have become a standard tool to quantify the macroeconomic effects of political measures. Most models assume a representative agent and often abstract from the…
Given the relevance of fairness preferences for global environmental problems the project had two main objectives. Firstly, it was tested whether the behaviour of subjects in free-rider experiments and simple…
The study aims at contributing to the understanding of the microstructure of the German electricity market by identifying price determinants, possible deficits of efficiency due to market power and their likely…
In order to use natural resources more efficiently in the future and to minimize environmental pollution, far-reaching new technological developments, as well as product, operational and organizational innovations…
A major polluter of CO2 emissions is the individual transport by passenger cars. Hence, an important objective of current EU transport policy is to reduce fossil fuel consumption and the specific CO2 emissions of…