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German car buyers' willingness to pay to reduce CO2 emissions

Achtnicht, Martin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

Motorized individual transport strongly contributes to global CO2 emissions, due to its intensive usage of fossil fuels. Current political efforts addressing this issue (i.e. emission performance standards in the EU) are directed towards car manufacturers. This paper focuses on the demand side....

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German car buyers' willingness to pay to reduce CO2 emissions

Achtnicht, Martin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

Motorised individual transport strongly contributes to global CO2 emissions, due to its intensive usage of fossil fuels. Current political efforts addressing this issue (i.e. emission performance standards in the EU) are directed towards car manufacturers. This paper focuses on the demand side....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008469768

Do environmental benefits matter? A choice experiment among house owners in Germany

Achtnicht, Martin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

Residential buildings strongly contribute to global CO2 emissions due to the high energy demand for electricity and heating, particularly in industrialised countries. Within the EU, decentralised heat generation is of particular relevance for future climate policy, as its emissions are not...

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The impact of burden sharing rules on the voluntary provision of public goods

Kesternich, Martin; Lange, Andreas; Sturm, Bodo - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

We investigate how burden sharing rules may impact the voluntary provision of a public good which generates heterogeneous benefits to agents. We compare different rule-based contribution schemes that are based on the principle of the smallest common denominator: all agents can suggest a minimum...

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Skill wage premia, employment, and cohort effects: are workers in Germany all of the same type?

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

as important dimensions of heterogeneity. After having identified cohort effects in skill wage premia and in the …

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Who Are the True Venture Capitalists in Germany?

Tykvová, Tereza - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

In this paper, we analyze the investment and divestment patterns of different types of venture capitalists. Using a data set em- bracing all venture-backed IPOs that occurred on Germany's Neuer Markt we investigate whether the governance structures, objectives, abilities and track records of...

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Are IPOs of Different VCs Different?

Tykvová, Tereza; Walz, Uwe - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

This paper sets out to analyze the influence of different types of venture capitalists on the performance of their portfolio firms around and after IPO. We investigate the hypothesis that different governance structures, objectives, and track records of different types of VCs have a significant...

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Tests of representative firm models: results for German manufacturing industries

Koebel, Bertrand M. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1996

estimate them on the basis of aggregate data. If firms' characteristics differs, the neglect heterogeneity can lead to … form and to explicitly take account of firm heterogeneity. Estimation for German manufacturing sectors confirms that ne …-glected heterogeneity is an important source of bias in representative agent models. …

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