Publications of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-002 // 2019

    The Effects of Natural Disasters and Weather Variations on International Trade: A Review of the Empirical Literature

    This review summarizes the empirical literature on the effects of natural disasters and weather variations on international trade flows. A first result is that the body of literature is actually not as small as…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2019

    Policy design for the Anthropocene

    Today, more than ever, ‘Spaceship Earth’ is an apt metaphor as we chart the boundaries for a safe planet1. Social scientists both analyse why society courts disaster by approaching or even overstepping these…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2019

    The impacts of the EU ETS on efficiency and economic performance – An empirical analyses for German manufacturing firms

    We investigate the effect of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) on the economic performance of manufacturing firms in Germany. Our difference-in-differences framework relies on several…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2019

    The Demand for Index‐Based Flood Insurance in a High‐Income Country

    Increased flooding is expected to be one of the greatest threats caused by climate change. Flood insurance helps to cope with the risk of flooding, but take-up rates are relatively low in many places. Mainly in…

  5. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Differentiated Carbon Prices and the Economic Cost of Decarbonization

    Employing a numerical general equilibrium model with multiple fuels, end-use sectors, heterogeneous households, and transport externalities, this paper examines three motives for differentiated carbon pricing in…