This paper analyzes the effects of the green transformation on the German electricity sector with respect to the energy-political triangle. It focuses on how the development of renewable energies will affect security of electricity supply. In a cost–benefit analysis, the value of supply...

Zusammenfassung Die Bedeutung, die der zukünftigen Entwicklung von Wirtschaft und Umwelt zugemessen wird, ist eine der entscheidenden Determinanten dafür, ob Nachhaltigkeit erreicht werden kann. Entsprechend wird der Art und Weise, wie Wirtschaftssubjekte die Zukunft diskontieren, in der...

This paper provides a theoretical analysis of suicide attacks and defection. First, decision processes of potential attackers are examined from an economist’s perspective. The results are then applied to insights from behavioural economics and psychology. We derive conditions under which...

Currently informal and formal international negotiations on climate change take place in an intensive way since the Kyoto Protocol expires already in 2012. A post-Kyoto regulation to combat global warming is not yet stipulated. Due to rapidly increasing greenhouse-gas emission levels,...