Es zeichnet sich immer deutlicher ab, dass die Unterzeichnerstaaten des Klimapro-tokolls von Kioto Maßnahmen ergreifen werden, um die darin festgeschriebenen nationalen Reduktionsverpflichtungen für…
Germany has committed itself to reducing its carbon emissions by 25 percent in 2005 as compared to 1990 emission levels. To achieve this goal, the government has recently launched an environmental tax reform…
Der Pkw-Verkehr trägt durch seine CO2-Emissionen in der Höhe von ca. 102 Mio.t/Jahr (Stand: 1997) zum Treibhauseffekt bei und ist damit der größte Verursacher externer Klimakosten im Verkehrssektor. Die externen…
In this paper, substitutional relationships between capital, labour, material, electricity, and fossil fuels in German producing and service sectors are estimated using a translog cost function. Estimates are…
In the debate on the phase-out of nuclear power generation in Germany, there is an intense dispute on the effective operating time for the existing nuclear power plants. This paper addresses the question of how…
We decompose the economic implications of the Kyoto Protocol at the cross-country level, splitting the total economic impact for each region into contributions from its own emission abatement policy and those…