Publikationen des Forschungsbereichs Umwelt- und Klimaökonomik

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 23-070 // 2023

    Do Climate Policies Lead To Outsourcing? Evidence From Firm-Level Imports

    Rising energy prices might lead to adjustments along the supply chain and make firms outsource energy-intensive processes. This could lead to carbon leakage. I provide empirical evidence whether energy…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 23-069 // 2023

    Is Germany Becoming the European Pollution Haven?

    Relative prices determine competitiveness of different locations. In this paper, we focus on the role of regulatory differences between Germany and other EU countries which affect the shadow price of carbon…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 23-065 // 2023

    Carbon Emission Statements: Balance Sheets and Flow Statements

    Current corporate disclosures regarding carbon emissions lack generally accepted accounting rules. The carbon accrual accounting system described here takes the rules of historical cost accounting for operating…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 23-040 // 2023

    Mobilizing Credit for Clean Energy: De-risking and Public Loan Provision Under Learning Spillovers

    Policymakers regularly rely on public financial institutions and government bodies to provide loans to clean energy projects. However, the market failures that public loan provision addresses and the role it can…

  5. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2023

    Can self-set goals encourage resource conservation? Field experimental evidence from a smartphone app

    This study leverages a large RCT to examine the potential of goal-setting nudges to encourage resource conservation at scale. We randomize a feature that allows subjects to set themselves energy consumption…

  6. #ZEWPodcast // 2023

    Prof. Kathrine von Graevenitz: Warum der Brückenstrompreis die Energiewende bremst

    Nach einer Idee des Bundeswirtschaftsministeriums sollen die Industriestrompreise für energieintensive Unternehmen bis 2030 für 80 Prozent des jeweiligen Verbrauchs in Form eines Brückenstrompreises gedeckelt…

  7. Fachzeitschrift // 2023

    La perspectiva del don: Asimetrías sociales, prosocialidad y un tercer principio más allá del estado y el mercado

    Marcel Mauss wrote in 1924 in his essay The Gift that he found in the motives for the exchange of gifts in "archaic" societies "one of the human rocks on which our societies are built". This thesis raises…