Publications of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 06-016 // 2006

    Hot Air for Sale: A Quantitative Assessment of Russia's Near-Term Climate Policy Options

    Since January 1st the European Union has launched an EU-internal emissions trading scheme (EU ETS) for emission-intensive installations as the central pillar to comply with the Kyoto Protocol. The EU ETS may be…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2006

    An adjustment process for nonconvex production economies

    We prove the existence of a path of market conditions, i.e. combinations of market prices and production quantities, that links any arbitrarily chosen market condition with an equilibrium, in a general…

  3. Expertises // 2006

    Impact Assessment of Various Policy Scenarios to Reduce CO2 Emissions from Passenger Cars

    Within the Kyoto Protocol, the European Union has committed itself to substantial reductions in overall CO2 emissions. As an ongoing process, this commitment was broken down into sector and country specific…