The Austrian agricultural sector is very heterogeneous in natural conditions and farming systems and highly vulnerable to climate change (e.g. alpine farming). The economic assessment of climate change impacts on and adaptation measures for agriculture requires an integrated modeling approach to...

Climate policy arrangements of partial regional coverage, as they seem to emerge from the UNFCCC process, might lead to carbon leakage and hence a broad literature has developed to quantify global leakage rates. While most of these analyses, are confined to consider combustion emissions only,...