Through June 25./26. 2001, the ZEW held an international workshop titled „Empirical Modeling of the Economy and the Environment“, celebrating 10 years since the ZEW's foundation and, at the same time, the 60.…
BLUEPRINT is the short name for "Blueprints for an Integration of Science, Technology and Environmental Policy". The network was designed to examine the relationship between S&T and environmental policies…
In this project, the existing system of models, PACE, will be further developed. The aim is to analyse the effects of taxation and social security contributions on the level and the structure of unemployment. The…
The liberalisation of European electricity and gas markets initiated in February 1996 leads to major structural changes in the energy industry. The competition now developing prompts firms in a at once challenging…
The project analysed the conditions for the emergence of lead-markets for innovations of a sustainable development. It has developed policy-recommendations which are able to support the world-wide diffusion of…
The project aims at providing advice to European policy makers about the best strategy for climate change mitigation, within the framework of the Kyoto protocol and the provided flexibility instruments, focusing…
The latest forecasts show, that we will encounter a strong growth in freight transport in the next few years. The objective of this study is to analyse the potential to bring freight to other means of transport.…
Regarding the future design of climate policy on national, European and international levels, a series of questions have yet to be answered, ranging from the analysis of the incentive effects of different designs…