Publications of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

  1. Discussion and Working Paper // 2021

    Price Matching Guarantees and Collusion: Theory and Evidence from Germany

    On May 27, 2015, the Shell network of gas stations in Germany introduced a Price Matching Guarantee (PMG) available to its card-carrying members. In the ensuing weeks, a series of attempts at tacit collusion…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-014 // 2021

    Climate Finance and Emission Reductions: What Do the Last Twenty Years Tell Us?

    In the framework of the Paris Agreement implementation, financial transfers remain a major point of negotiation for addressing equity concerns raised by the ambitious climate objectives. In complement to the…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-010 // 2021

    Incentives and Intertemporal Behavioral Spillovers: A Two-Period Experiment on Charitable Giving

    We test whether and, if so, how incentives to promote pro-social behavior affect the extent to which it spills over to subsequent charitable giving. To do so, we conduct a two-period artefactual field experiment…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2021

    Electric and conventional vehicle usage in private and carsharing fleets in Germany

    We use car-level micro data to provide empirical evidence on the usage of conventional and electric vehicles (EVs) in private and car sharing fleets in Germany. We shed light on both monetary and…

  5. Refereed Journal // 2021

    Poorly Adapted but Nothing to Lose? A Study on the Flood Risk – Income Relationship with a Focus on Low-Income Households

    Flood risk may differ across income levels. In this paper, I employ unique survey data from more than 8,000 households in Germany to derive an integrated flood risk indicator that accounts for local flood…

  6. Monograph // 2021

    Die Gabe als drittes Prinzip zwischen Markt und Staat?

    Marcel Mauss wrote in 1923 in his essay The Gift that he had "found one of the rocks on which our societies rest" in the motifs of the exchange of gifts. This thesis still raises questions today: How does…