Publications of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

  1. Refereed Journal // 2022

    The heterogeneous effects of environmental taxation on green technologies

    This paper analyses the effectiveness of environmental taxation in stimulating the adoption of end-of-pipe and cleaner production technologies across manufacturing and mining firms between 2008 and 2014. We…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2022

    Natural disasters and climate change beliefs: the role of distance and prior beliefs

    Public support of climate policies crucially depends on climate change beliefs. Here we analyze the effects of natural disaster experience on the belief in the existence of climate change. The primary data…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2022

    Experimental games in transdisciplinary research: The potential importance of individual payments

    Laboratory experiments in social sciences are a powerful tool with which to study causal mechanisms in human interactions. Over the past several years, experimental games have been applied increasingly in…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2022

    Cross-country Spillovers of Renewable Energy Promotion - The Case of Germany

    Electricity generation based on renewable energy (RE) sources such as wind and solar replace the most expensive generators that often rely on fossil fuels. In response to RE promotion, wholesale electricity…