Projects of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

Abgeschlossene Projekte

  1. Project // 01.03.2019 – 31.12.2020

    Corruption, Sea Level Rise and the Social Cost of Carbon

    With this proposal we put forward two separate paper ideas. In the first paper connecting SLR to corruption, we build upon the models of Nováĉková and Tol (2018), Escaleras et al. (2007), Escaleras and Register…

  2. Project // 01.01.2019 – 30.09.2022

    Evaluating Policy Instruments for the Transformation to a Low Carbon Economy: Causal Evidence from Administrative Micro Data

    Mitigating the effects of climate change represents one of the major global societal challenges. In the framework of the COP21 held in Paris in 2015, the international community agreed to limit global temperature…

  3. Project // 01.01.2019 – 31.03.2021

    Buy Local – A Market for Balancing Energy in Electricity Distribution Networks

    The project aims on laying the foundations for to design a market for balancing energy in electricity distribution networks. Such markets currently do not exist, albeit more and more retail customers like small…

  4. Project // 01.01.2019 – 31.03.2021

    Redesign Redispatch

    The project aims on analyzing, testing, and potentially redesigning the mechanism for the procurement of power plant redispatch in the German transmission grid for electric power.

  5. Project // 01.12.2018 – 31.08.2022

    Evaluating Germany’s Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Practice

    Building on the Socio-Ecologic Panel (SÖP) established in the BMBF-funded project Eval-MAP (www.rwi-essen.de/eval-map), the objectives of the proposed project Eval-MAP II are twofold. First, we will undertake…

  6. Project // 01.12.2018 – 30.11.2022

    Incentives, Fairness and Compliance in International Environmental Agreements

    During the United Nations Climate Change Conference in December 2015 (COP21) and its resulting Paris Agreement, 195 countries agreed to set out a global action plan to limit global…

  7. Project // 01.11.2018 – 28.02.2022

    The Relevance of Non-State Actors for Individual Climate Protection Activities and Climate Policy: A Theoretical, Experimental, and Empirical Analysis (NostaClimate)

    The project "The relevance of non-state actors for individual climate protection activities and climate policy: A theoretical, experimental, and empirical analysis (NostaClimate)", financed by the Federal Ministry…

  8. Project // 01.11.2018 – 30.04.2022

    Climate Impact Chains in a Globalized World: A Challenge for Germany

    The project CLIC is pursuing three overarching goals: advancing methods for economic assessments of transboundary climate impacts on economic activities, applying these methods for analyzing such effects on the…

  9. Project // 01.09.2018 – 31.05.2022

    The Economics of Climate Policy Compliance: Monitoring, Reporting, Verification & Enforcement

    With the agreement on setting up a transparency mechanism (TM), the 2015 Paris Accord took an important step towards strengthening compliance in international climate policy through monitoring,…