Publications of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

  1. ZEW policy brief No. 25-05 // 2025

    Solar Installations in Private Homes: Upfront Subsidies Preferable to Feed-In Tariffs

    For investors, the decision to install photovoltaic (PV) systems largely depends on whether the investment proves worthwhile. Subsidies play an important role in this context. Currently, the German subsidy…

  2. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2025

    Commuting: The rise of urban air mobility?

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 25-017 // 2025

    No Place Like Home: Charging Infrastructure and the Environmental Advantage of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles

    Many European companies face the challenge of lowering CO2 emissions from their company car fleets. A promising lever is to increase the notoriously low electric usage of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2025

    Local Economic Impacts of Wind Power Deployment in Denmark

    An argument sometimes used to support renewable energy is that it may contribute to job creation. On the other hand, these technologies often face local opposition. In the case of Denmark, the country with the…

  5. Refereed Journal // 2025

    International Trade and the Transmission of Temperature Shocks

    We examine how the adverse impacts of weather shocks are distributed through the trade network. Exploiting a rich, theoretically derived, fixed effects structure, we find significant negative short-run effects…