Publications of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

  1. ZEW-Schriftenreihe Umwelt- und Ressourcenökonomie // 1998

    Long-Term Integration of Renewable Energy Sources into the European Energy System

    A sustainable European energy system, mitigating climate change and solving a number of other key environmental problems, will require massive reliance on renewable energy sources combined with a sharp increase…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 97-26 // 1997

    Double Dividend of Climate Protection and the Role of International Policy Coordination in the EU - An Applied General Equilibrium

    National economic concerns still hinder the implementation of effective policy measures that would enable a significant reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Considering other economic problems like…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 97-13 // 1997

    A Regulatory Framework for a Policy of Sustainability: Lessons from the Neo-Liberal School

    In this paper targets, institutions and policy measures for describing and implementing sustainable development are evaluated in terms of their conformity with the economic framework of a market system.…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 97-11 // 1997

    Linking Weak and Strong Sustainability Indicators: The Case of Global Warming

    The aim of this paper is to describe and discuss the weak and strong sustainability approach of assessing climate change and to show reasonable applications, weaknesses, possible improvements and linkages of…

  5. Discussion and Working Paper // 1997

    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 is a consistent result which prevails despite quite different experiment en-vironments…