Publications of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

  1. Refereed Journal // 2002

    Efficient rent-seeking in experiment

    In a series of experiments we show that people learn to play the efficient outcome in an open-ended rent-seeking game. This result persists despite quite different experiment environments and settings, like…

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

    Criteria for evaluation towards sustainability

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

    On the Political Economy of International Environmental Agreements - Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence

    Real governments are at least to some extent also motivated by the objective of maximizing their political income. In a standard political economy model, this means that governments try to maximize their chance…

  4. ZEWnews English edition // 2002

    No. 2 - 2002

    • ZEW Conference on Price Indices and the Measurement of Quality Changes
    • Training Is not Always Effective
    • Financial Services in the EU: Barriers Cost Billions
    • Efficiency of Innovation Activities
    • Tax Autonomy of the…
  5. ZEWnews English edition // 2002

    No. 1 - 2002

    • ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment Shows Turnaround for German Economy
    • What will Put the German Neuer Markt Back on its Feet Again?
    • An International Comparison of Funded Private Pension Schemes
    • Protecting the…
  6. Discussion and Working Paper // 2001

    Environmental Taxation and Induced Structural Change in an Open Economy: The Role of Market Structure (mit C. Böhringer und H.Welsch), German Economic Review 9 (1), 17-40

    The economic effects of environmental taxes depend on the market structure. Under imperfect competition with free entry and exit, environmental taxes have an impact on economies of scale by changing the number…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 01-46 // 2001

    Employment Changes in Environmentally Innovative Firms

    This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions induced by environmental innovations. On the basis of the parameter estimates of the Multinomial Logit and of several Multinomial Probit Models, we…