Publications of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

  1. Refereed Journal // 2014

    Overview of EMF 24 Policy Scenarios

    The Energy Modeling Forum 24 study included a set of policy scenarios designed to compare economy wide market-based and sectoral regulatory approaches of potential U.S. climate policy. Models from seven teams…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2014

    Modeling U.S. water resources under climate change

    Water is at the center of a complex and dynamic system involving climatic, biological, hydrological, physical, and human interactions. We demonstrate a new modeling system that integrates climatic and…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2014

    A self-consistent method to assess air quality co-benefits from U.S. climate policies

    Air quality co-benefits can potentially reduce the costs of greenhouse gas mitigation. However, whereas many studies of the cost of greenhouse gas mitigation model the macroeconomic welfare impacts of…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2014

    Distributional and Efficiency Impacts of Clean and Renewable Energy Standards for Electricity

    We examine the efficiency and distributional impacts of greenhouse gas policies directed toward the electricity sector in a model that links a “top-down” general equilibrium representation of the U.S. economy…

  5. Refereed Journal // 2014

    A Systems Approach to Evaluating the Air Quality Co-benefits of US Carbon Policies

    Because human activities emit greenhouse gases (GHGs) and conventional air pollutants from common sources, policy designed to reduce GHGs can have co-benefits for air quality that may offset some or all of the…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-121 // 2014

    On the Effects of Unilateral Environmental Policy on Offshoring in Multi-Stage Production Processes

    In the last decades supply chains emerged that stretch across many countries. This has been explained with decreasing trade and communication costs. We extend the literature by analyzing if and how unilateral…