Publikationen des Forschungsbereichs Umwelt- und Klimaökonomik

  1. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2025

    Self-interest and support for climate-related transport policy measures in Germany and Sweden

    Based on survey data among citizens from Germany and Sweden, this paper examines the individual support for climate-related passenger transport policy measures. Our descriptive statistics reveal that pull policy…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 25-017 // 2025

    No Place Like Home: Charging Infrastructure and the Environmental Advantage of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles

    Many European companies face the challenge of lowering CO2 emissions from their company car fleets. A promising lever is to increase the notoriously low electric usage of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles…

  3. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2025

    Local Economic Impacts of Wind Power Deployment in Denmark

    An argument sometimes used to support renewable energy is that it may contribute to job creation.
    On the other hand, these technologies often face local opposition. In the case of Denmark, the
    country with the…

  4. Discussion und Working Paper // 2025

    The Distributional Effects of EU Carbon Pricing

    The EU member states have committed to achieving climate neutrality, i.e. netzero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, by mid-century. The two emissions trading systems (ETSs) in the EU—ETS1 and ETS2—are the lead…

  5. Discussion und Working Paper // 2025

    Efficiency, Distributional, and Fiscal Effects of Climate Policy: The Case of Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Externalities

    The global public good nature of climate change mitigation and the resulting free-rider problem require a restructuring of the incentives for countries to price fossil energy consumption. Existing empirical…

  6. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2025

    International Trade and the Transmission of Temperature Shocks

    We examine how the adverse impacts of weather shocks are distributed through the trade
    network. Exploiting a rich, theoretically derived, fixed effects structure, we find signifi-
    cant negative short-run effects…

  7. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2025

    Impacts of ownership changes on emissions and industrial production: Evidence from Europe

    Firm ownership is a major determinant for the economic performance of firms, and emissions of pollutants are often by-products of industrial production. We investigate the impact of ownership on pollutant…