Publications of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

  1. Refereed Journal // 1998

    Towards a Theory and Policy of Eco-Innovation-Neoclassic and (Co-)Evolutionary Perspectives

    Innovation processes toward sustainable development (eco-innovations) have received increasing attention during the past years. Since existing theoretical and methodological frameworks do not address these…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 98-31 // 1998

    The Goals of Sustainable Development and the Reform of the EU Banana Trade Regime. A Discussion of Different Trade Instruments

    Ideally a new reform of the EU trade regime for bananas (COMB) should be equipped in a way that it makes a long-term contribution to the realisation of sustainable goals, or at least does not prevent them. From…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 98-19 // 1998

    Electoral Competition under Media Influence

    We suggest a model of electoral competition between two parties which is extended by a third player: mass media. The classical one-dimensional competition model is changed by introducing an issue-specific…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 98-15 // 1998

    Tradable SO2-Permits in the European Union: A Practicable Scheme for Public Utilities

    In this paper, a practicable scheme of SO2-emission permits for European power producers is developed. Background is the second UN-ECE Sulphur Protocol from 1994 (Protocol of Oslo). After discussing some…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 98-12 // 1998

    Climate Change Policy and Burden Sharing in the European Union - Applying Alternative Equity Rules to a CGE-framework

    The objective of this paper is to present different equity rules that can be applied to the initial allocation of greenhouse gas entitlements and to analyse the potential impacts of these rules EU-wide as well…