Publications of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 22-040 // 2022

    Motivate the Crowd or Crowd-Them Out? The Impact of Local Government Spending on the Voluntary Provision of a Green Public Good

    Cities are increasingly hold accountable for climate action. By demonstrating their pro-environmentality through own climate-related activities, they not at least aspire to encourage individual climate…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 22-038 // 2022

    Do Manufacturing Plants Respond to Exogenous Changes in Electricity Prices? Evidence From Administrative Micro-Data

    Climate change is the result of global market failure and remedying the situation requires effective policy action. Climate policies often increase energy prices thereby affecting all actors in the economy.…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2022

    Incentives and intertemporal behavioral spillovers: A two-period experiment on charitable giving

    We test whether and, if so, how incentives to promote prosocial behavior affect the extent to which they spill over to subsequent charitable giving. To do so, we conduct a two-period framed field experiment to…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 22-035 // 2022

    International Trade and the Transmission of Temperature Shocks

    We examine how the adverse impacts of weather shocks are distributed through the trade network. Exploiting a rich, theoretically derived, fixed effects structure, we find significant negative short-run effects…