Publications of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 02-28 // 2002

    The Economic and Environmental Implications of the US Repudiation of the Kyoto Protocol and the Subsequent Deals in Bonn and Marrakech

    Taking account of sinks credits as agreed in Bonn and Marrakech, this paper illustrates how market power could be exerted in the absence of the US ratification under Annex 1 trading and explores the potential…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 02-25 // 2002

    Dismantling of a Breakthrough: The Kyoto Protocol - Just Symbolic Policy!

    We show that U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol is straightforward under political economy considerations. The reason is that U.S. compliance costs exceed low willingness to pay for dealing with global…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 02-09 // 2002

    Rio - 10 Years After: A Critical Appraisal of Climate Policy

    Ten years after the initial Climate Change Convention from Rio in 1992, the developed world is likely to ratify the Kyoto Protocol which has been celebrated as a milestone in climate protection. Standard…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2002

    The Capital-Energy Controversy: An Artifact of Cost Shares?

    Any serious empirical study of factor substitutability has to allow the data to display complementarity as well as substitutability. The standard approach reflecting this idea is a translog specification -- this…

  5. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2002

    PACE - Policy analysis based on computable equilibrium

  6. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2002

    Economic Impacts of Carbon Abatement Strategies