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Regional age structure, human capital and innovation: Is demographic ageing increasing regional disparities?
Gregory, Terry; Patuelli, Roberto - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
, innovation output and skill composition for German regions by conducting an Exploratory Space-Time Data Analysis (ESTDA). Beside … variables. Overall, we find strong clustering tendencies for the demographic variables and innovation that constitute a great … among regions that may further reinforce the observed innovation divide in the future. …
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Multidimensional affluence in income and wealth in the eurozone: A cross country comparison using the HFCS
Kontbay-Busun, Sine; Peichl, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that the percentage of …
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Elasticity of substitution between clean and dirty energy inputs: A macroeconomic perspective
Papageorgiou, Chris; Saam, Marianne; Schulte, Patrick - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
Recently Acemolgu, Aghion, Bursztyn and Hemous (AER 2012) formulated a model in which a high macroeconomic elasticity of substitution between clean and dirty production represents a crucial condition for green growth. Until now it has never been systematically estimated. Using a novel panel of...
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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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Industrial ecology in policy making: What is achievable and what is not?
Pothen, Frank - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
A diverse set of tools has been developed in Industrial Ecology to tackle the problems caused by human economic activity. These instruments include Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Material Flow Analysis (MFA). Especially LCA is now increasingly used in policy making. Design and Evaluation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008694112
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Mission Impossible!? On the Harmonization of National Allocation Plans under the EU Emissions Trading Directive
Böhringer, Christoph; Lange, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004
Starting in 2005, the EU will implement a CO2 emissions trading scheme. In this paper we show that the outspoken goals of economic efficiency and free allocation of allowances are incompatible with harmonized allocation rules. In general, the assignment of allowances is endogenous and differs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098297
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Total costs and budgetary effects of adaptation to climate change: An assessment for the European Union
Osberghaus, Daniel; Reif, Christiane - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
Adaptation to climate change is gaining increasing relevance in the public debate of climate policy. However, detailed and regionalised cost estimates as a basis for cost-benefit-analyses are rare. We compose available cost estimates for adaptation in Europe, and in particular Germany, Finland...
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The Role of Transaction Costs and Risk Premia in the Determination of Climate Change Policy Responses
Stronzik, Marcus; Hunt, Alistair; Eckermann, Frauke; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003
Transaction costs and risk have generally not been taken into account in assessing the Kyoto mechanisms JI, CDM and emissions trading. However, they can have a significant influence. With regard to the project-based mechanisms, the factor that most determines the influence of transaction costs...
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Entwicklungschancen und Umweltschutz durch Joint Implementation mit Indien
Kopp, Oliver; Bräuer, Wolfgang - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1998
Bei den Klimaverhandlungen in Kyoto einigten sich die Delegierten auf die Einrichtung eines sogenannten Clean Development Mechanism. Dabei handelt es sich um einen Vertragsmechanismus, dessen Herzstück die Gemeinsame Vertragsumsetzung ist, welche international als Joint Implementation...
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The employment impact of cleaner production on the firm level: empirical evidence from a survey in five European countries
Rennings, Klaus; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001
This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering more than 1500 firms in five European countries that...
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