Publikationen des Forschungsbereichs Umwelt- und Klimaökonomik

  1. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2018

    How robust is the uniform emissions pricing rule to social equity concerns?

    This paper examines pollution tax differentiation across industries in light of social equity concerns using theoretical and numerical general equilibrium analyses in an optimal tax framework. We…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 18-058 // 2018

    Using Emissions Trading Schemes to Reduce Heterogeneous Distortionary Taxes: the Case of Recycling Carbon Auction Revenues to Support Renewable Energy

    While emissions trading schemes are developed by nations to mitigate their greenhouse gas emissions, behavioural studies have shown that the political and public acceptability of these market-based instruments…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 18-057 // 2018

    Effects of Attribute-Based Regulation on Technology Adoption – The Case of Feed-In Tariffs for Solar Photovoltaic

    Feed-in tariffs are a widespread policy instrument to support the diffusion of renewable energy technologies. I investigate the impact of the size-based differentiation of these tariffs on the adoption of…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 18-054 // 2018

    Contract Design with Limited Commitment

    We consider the problem of a principal who wishes to contract with a privately informed agent and is not able to commit to not renegotiating any mechanism. That is, we allow the principal, after observing…

  5. ZEWnews English edition // 2018

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  6. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2018

    Eliciting preferences for urban parks

    The hedonic pricing method has been used extensively to obtain implicit prices for availability of urban green space, but few have obtained households' preference parameters. We elicit preferences and estimate…