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  • Publications // 14.10.2024

    Companies in various industries are under growing pressure to assess the costs of decarbonizing their operations. This paper develops a generic abatement cost concept to identify the cost-efficient combination [...] environmental regulations, such as carbon pricing. We calibrate our model in the context of European cement producers that must obtain emission permits under the European Emission Trading System (EU ETS).

  • Publications // 28.06.2023

    annual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the cement industry is considered difficult to decarbonize. While a sizeable number of abatement levers for Portland cement production is becoming technologically ready [...] pathways toward substantial emission reductions. We calibrate our model with new industry data in the context of European cement plants that must obtain emission permits under the European Emissions Trading [...] the status quo. Yet, these incentives increase sharply at a carbon price of €126 per ton. If cement producers were to expect such carbon price levels to persist in the future, they would have incentives

  • News // 27.02.2023

    Massive green industrial policy interventions in China and the United States have put Europe and Germany under pressure: they must reposition themselves to be more competitive and innovative. To avoid [...] subsidies are being heard and that policy-makers are attempting to tread the misguided path of cementing the status quo. We also worry that policy-makers are supporting “national champions” that are not

  • Press Releases // 03.02.2022

    that lead to emissions not being reduced in a cost-effective manner in the various sectors and industries. Another potential problem is that the taxonomy sets performance requirements based on the current [...] promote the development of new technologies for CO 2 reduction. Furthermore, there is even a risk of cementing taxonomy-compliant activities that are labelled sustainable but are not sufficiently so to ultimately

  • Publications // 25.02.2020

    markets with transport costs and capacity constraints. Using a rich micro-level data set of the cement industry in Germany, we study a cartel breakdown to identify the effect of competition on transport distances

  • Publications // 27.09.2017

    customers that are closer to plants of competitors. By means of a rich micro-level data set of the cement industry in Germany, we provide empirical evidence in support of this result. Controlling for other p

  • Publications // 20.04.2016

  • Publications // 23.03.2016

    In the case of the German cement cartel that operated over 1991-2002, the primary source of non-cartel supply was imports from Eastern European cement manufacturers. Industry sources have claimed that [...] pricing that takes account of the option of bribing intermediaries. The theory predicts that the cement cartel members are more likely to share rents with an intermediary when the nearest Eastern European

  • Events // 10.09.2014

    diffusion and adoption of knowledge and innovations; the use of knowledge by entrepreneurs and industries; consequences of a knowledge-based economy; and challenges of a knowledge-based economy for economic [...] >12.45 – 13.00Coffee Break13.00 – 13.30Illegal Cartels in Europe – The Case of the German Cement Cartel;Kai Hüschelrath, MaCCI, ZEW, and University of Mannheim, Germany13.30 – 14.00Discussion: [...] insight into the anatomy of hard-core cartels and combined it with a rich data set on the recent German cement cartel. The results of this project will be presented to the audience attending the event. The private

  • Publications // 09.02.2010

    with international trade distortions. This paper examines three cases - industrial diamonds, potash from Saskatchewan, and cement from Greece - in which international trade policy and competition policy

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