With their decisions on production, regulation and consumption, business, politics and society have a strong influence on how climate change will develop in the future. At the same time, we lack knowledge in…
Since the implementation of environmental regulations in the 1970s, there has been much debate about their potential effects on affected firms. Policymakers and firm representatives fear that incomplete regulation…
Politicians often use the assumption of positive employment effects of low-carbon technologies to support them. However there is little scientific evidence for this. We aim at empirically characterizing the local…
With this proposal we put forward two separate paper ideas. In the first paper connecting SLR to corruption, we build upon the models of Nováĉková and Tol (2018), Escaleras et al. (2007), Escaleras and Register…
Mitigating the effects of climate change represents one of the major global societal challenges. In the framework of the COP21 held in Paris in 2015, the international community agreed to limit global temperature…
The project aims on laying the foundations for to design a market for balancing energy in electricity distribution networks. Such markets currently do not exist, albeit more and more retail customers like small…
The project aims on analyzing, testing, and potentially redesigning the mechanism for the procurement of power plant redispatch in the German transmission grid for electric power.
Building on the Socio-Ecologic Panel (SÖP) established in the BMBF-funded project Eval-MAP (www.rwi-essen.de/eval-map), the objectives of the proposed project Eval-MAP II are twofold. First, we will undertake…
During the United Nations Climate Change Conference in December 2015 (COP21) and its resulting Paris Agreement, 195 countries agreed to set out a global action plan to limit global…
The project "The relevance of non-state actors for individual climate protection activities and climate policy: A theoretical, experimental, and empirical analysis (NostaClimate)", financed by the Federal Ministry…
The project CLIC is pursuing three overarching goals: advancing methods for economic assessments of transboundary climate impacts on economic activities, applying these methods for analyzing such effects on the…
With the agreement on setting up a transparency mechanism (TM), the 2015 Paris Accord took an important step towards strengthening compliance in international climate policy through monitoring,…