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• Publications // 18.12.2024

  Refereed Journal - Better Safe than Sorry? Toxic Waste Management after Union Elections
• Publications // 04.07.2023

  Discussion and Working Paper - Changing the Game: The Role of Women in Experiential Learning

  women led to greater success in sustainable water management two years after the intervention. Participation of female leaders indirectly influence management improvements, as their presence increased [...] underscore the significance of involving women in game-based learning for sustainable resource management.
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  News // 14.04.2023

  The Dilemma of Climate Policy

  gas and oil heaters. After a gruelling days-long negotiation, the reform was pushed through in a watered-down form. This case is emblematic of a larger, systemic problem facing the government: when CO2 [...] that relies on slowly rising prices but ultimately eliminates price caps. Households would face a manageable burden initially but remain aware that the strain would steadily increase. An awareness of these
• Publications // 01.02.2023

  Refereed Journal - Games for experiental learing: triggering collective changes in commons management

  create trust, and provide incentives for sustainable management. Coordinated collective action can play a key role in enabling communities to manage natural resource commons more sustainably. But when such [...] important for influencing behavioral drivers in commons management in three intervention cases from India relating to groundwater, surface water, and forests. Our conceptual reflections underpin the need [...] learning through games can affect behavioral change, potentially leading to more sustainable commons management. We present a conceptual framework describing the most important processes involved in experiential
• Publications // 17.02.2022

  Refereed Journal - Experimental games in transdisciplinary research: The potential importance of individual payments

  designs to promote collective action outside of experiments. In a framed field experiment on water management in rural India, we compared within-game behavior and collective action outside the game between [...] experimental games have been applied increasingly in transdisciplinary research in natural resource management with a strong purpose to develop capacity to promote learning and behavioral change. Yet, few studies
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  Press Releases // 11.08.2021

  ZEW Survey Participants Donate Trees for the 2023 German National Garden Show

  voluntarily offset CO 2 by retiring certificates from emissions trading. - Michael Schnellbach, managing director of the 2023 German National Garden Show, is delighted with the support of the ZEW respondents: [...] ability of new forests to compensate for CO 2 emissions is associated with many uncertainties, such as water supply, soil quality and the expected durability of the tree population. For the researchers, the [...] deputy head of the ZEW Research Department “Environmental and Resource Economics, Environmental Management” comments on the survey results. “For climate protection, however, we should focus our attention
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  Press Releases // 15.03.2021

  Annual Billing Leads to More Energy Consumption – Paying Immediately Can Help

  In Germany, customers usually receive their electricity, water and gas bills once per year. A recent study of ZEW Mannheim shows that this type of billing leads to more utility consumption. Paying these [...] immediately could provide incentives to reduce consumption. - The current billing system for electricity, water and gas allows consumers to immediately enjoy the benefits of having these utilities – but it can [...] date. The economic experiment also showed that consumers were 13 per cent less likely to exhibit wasteful behaviour if they have to pay immediately. “When billing is carried at out at the end of the year
• Publications // 04.01.2021

  ZEW Discussion Paper - ‘Pay-Later’ vs. ‘Pay-as-You-Go’: Experimental Evidence on Present-Biased Overconsumption and the Importance of Timing

  When consuming goods provided by public utilities, such as telecommunication, water, gas or electricity, the predominant payment scheme is pay-later billing. This paper identifies one potential consequence [...] Results show that pay-as-you-go billing significantly decreases consumption, and in particular wasteful consumption. As the design controls for contaminating effects, these results can be solely attributed
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  Press Releases // 29.04.2019

  Family Businesses Create More Jobs than DAX Companies

  per cent of private companies being controlled by families and as much as 86 per cent being owner-managed family businesses. On average, family businesses have fewer than ten employees. All in all, however [...] active in the construction and trading sectors, to a somewhat lesser extent in mining, energy and water supply and disposal, as well as in financial and insurance services. In addition to the large number
• Publications // 03.05.2019

  ZEW Discussion Paper - Employment and Performance Effects of Circular Economy Innovations

  level. CE innovations such as the reduction of energy and material consumption or the recycling of waste, water or material may lead to cost savings which in turn can increase the competitiveness of the firm