Der Konflikt zwischen Ökologie und Ökonomie wird dadurch unnötig verschärft, daß wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Prinzipien und Erkenntnisse bei der Gestaltung einer ökonomisch rationalen Umweltpolitik nur unzureichend berücksichtigt werden. Die Ziele der Umweltpolitik werden von der Politik...

Empirical studies on industry lobbying sometimes reveal that certain firms within an industry behave atypically in that they promote cost driving regulations like, e.g., environmental standards. For analysing this phenomenon of 'strategic lobbying1, the present paper combines a heterogeneous...

This paper investigates the economic implications of a comprehensive approach to greenhouse policies that strives to stabilise the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases at an ecologicaliy determined threshold level. In a theoretical optimisation model conditions for an efficient...

This article investigates efficient policies against global warming in the case of multiple greenhouse gases. In a dynamic optimization model conditions for an efficient combination of greenhouse gases are derived. The model is empirically specified and adapted to a simulation approach. By...