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Intertemporal evaluation criteria for climate change policy: the basic ethical issues

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Schymura, Michael - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

The evaluation of long-term effects of climate change in cost-benefit analysis has a long tradition in environmental economics. Since the publication of the Stern Review in 2006 the debate about the 'appropriate' discounting of future welfare and utility levels was revived and the most renowned...

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Pollution exposure and infant health: Evidence from Germany

Coneus, Katja; Spieß, Christa Katharina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children's health from birth until the age of three … years in Germany. We use representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), combined with five air pollution …. Secondly, we are able to follow the effect of pollution exposure on a child's health during the first three years of life …

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Combining international cap-and-trade with national carbon taxes

Heindl, Peter; Wood, Peter J.; Jotzo, Frank - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

This paper examines the effects of combining an international cap-and-trade scheme with national carbon taxes. We consider a two-country stochastic partial equilibrium model with log-normally distributed uncertainty. The situation is analogous to the situation where European countries impose...

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Mitigating market power under tradeable permits

Heindl, Peter - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

As shown by R. Hahn [6], free allocation equal to the amount of permits a firm with market power uses in equilibrium, can prevent welfare losses. If the necessary amount of free allocation is not provided to the firm with market power, a second best solution is obtained where marginal abatement...

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How can pure social discounting be ethically justified?

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Schymura, Michael - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

The evaluation of long-term effects of climate change in cost-benefit analysis has a long tradition in environmental economics. Since the publication of the Stern Review in 2006 the debate about the appropriate discounting of future welfare and utility levels was revived and the most renowned...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957602

Designing emissions trading in practice general considerations and experiences from the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS)

Heindl, Peter; Löschel, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

This paper deals with designing emissions trading in practice. After a short introduction to the general idea of emissions trading, practical requirements for the introduction of an emissions trading scheme are considered, including the temporal and spatial dimension as well as administrative...

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Impure Public Goods and Technological Interdependencies

Löschel, Andreas; Rübbelke, Dirk T. G. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

Impure public goods represent an important group of goods. Almost every public good exerts not only effects which are public to all but also effects which are private to the producer of this good. What is often omitted in the analysis of impure public goods is the fact that – regularly –...

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Cartel destabilization and leniency programs: Empirical evidence

Klein, Gordon J. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

Leniency programs as a tool for cartel detection and cartel destabilization, have been implemented since the early nineties. Theoretical work has shown that leniency programs can be effective in enhancing cartel detection and deterrence, but these effects are not straight-forward. It is even...

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Kriminalität, ihre Ursachen und ihre Bekämpfung: Warum auch Ökonomen gefragt sind

Entorf, Horst; Sprengler, Hannes - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1998

In diesem Beitrag wird zunächst die Notwendigkeit einer ökonomischen Kriminalitätsforschung aufgezeigt. Im Anschluß daran wird ein Überblick über diese vor genau 30 Jahren mit einem viel beachteten Aufsatz von Gary Becker begründete Forschungsrichtung gegeben. Neben der Vorstellung der...

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Development and validation of scientific indicators of the relationship between criminality, social cohesion and economic performance

Entorf, Horst; Spengler, Hannes - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000

The study intends to contribute to a better understanding of the interactions between criminality, economic performance and social cohesion. We try to achieve this aim by evaluating the existing economic and criminological research and by carrying out own empirical investigation on the basis of...

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