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Different Prices for Identical Products? Market Efficiency and the Virtual Location in B2C E-Commerce
Häring, Julia - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003
This paper analyses market efficiency and the role of the virtual location in digital markets using a data set containing more than 23,000 price observations from the online market for contact lenses as well as detailed information about online retailer and product characteristics. The data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098170
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A practical approach to offset permits in post Kyoto climate policy
Heindl, Peter; Voigt, Sebastian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
Development Mechanism (CDM) will potentially play an important role for cost containment in domestic greenhouse gas regulation … USA, Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand install domestic greenhouse gas regulation schemes to achieve the emissions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009211176
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The impact of informational costs in quantity regulation of pollutants. The case of the European Emissions Trading Scheme
Heindl, Peter - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
emissions evels and employed technology. We present a model that shows that behavior of firms under quantity regulation can … trading scheme and show that 'adjoining' markets to quantity regulation, supplying goods (i.e. abatement technology) or … the design of environmental regulation, when considering transaction costs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009211177
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Carbon management: Evidence from case studies of German firms under the EU ETS
Heindl, Peter; Lutz, Benjamin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
processes related to the EU ETS and to strengthen intuition for microeconomic consequences of greenhouse gas regulation in a cap … return of transactions. Our analysis suggests that institutional responds to regulation should be taken into account for the … design of greenhouse gas regulation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957643
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Transaction costs and tradable permits: Empirical evidence from the EU emissions trading scheme
Heindl, Peter - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
In this paper, transaction costs in the EU emissions trading scheme (EU ETS) are examined empirically based on survey data from German companies. Transaction costs from measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) of emissions, permit trading and general informational costs are considered....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957744
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010985623
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The value-added of sectoral disaggregation: Implications on competitive consequences of climate change policies
Alexeeva-Talebi, Victoria; Böhringer, Christoph; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
that receive larger attention in the public policy debate on unilateral emission regulation: non-ferrous metals, iron and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010985687
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Understanding the competitiveness implications of future phases of EU ETS on the industrial sectors
Oberndorfer, Ulrich; Alexeeva-Talebi, Victoria; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
In making key decisions for the future phases of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), policy makers need to fully understand the competitiveness implications of these decisions on industrial sectors. In this paper, we conduct an empirical analysis of cost pass-through ability of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008548756
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Efficiency Losses from Overlapping Economic Instruments in European Carbon Emissions Regulation
Böhringer, Christoph; Koschel, Henrike; Moslener, Ulf - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
Energy markets and energy-intensive industries in all EU member states – especially in Germany – are subject to a diverse set of policies related to climate change. We analyse the potential efficiency losses from simultaneous application of emission taxes and emissions trading in qualitative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097507
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A European Perspective on Recent Trends in U.S. Climate Policy
Moslener, Ulf; Sturm, Bodo - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
Without participation of the United States, the world?s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, mitigation of global climate change seems hardly conceivable. Despite the U.S. rejection of the Kyoto Protocol and the reluctance of the Bush administration to engage in Post-Kyoto negotiations, recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097567