The market for voluntary carbon offsets has grown steadily in the last decade, yet it remains a very small niche. Most emissions from business travel are still not offset. This paper exploits a unique dataset examining the decision to purchase carbon offsets at two academic conferences in...

Zum Schutz der Umwelt wird in Deutschland vornehmlich eine Politik der Verbote, Gebote und der technischen Standards betrieben. Dieses Buch ist ein Plädoyer für mehr Marktwirtschaft in der Umweltpolitik. Die Simulationsrechnungen mit dem empirisch fundierten und tief untergliederten...

This paper addresses two basic issues related to technological innovation and climate stabilisation objectives: i) Can innovation policies be effective in stabilising greenhouse gas concentrations? ii) To what extent can innovation policies complement carbon pricing (taxes or permit trading) and...

Many countries are implementing or at least considering policies to counter increasingly certain negative impacts from climate change. An increasing amount of research has been devoted to the analysis of the costs of climate change and its mitigation, as well as to the design of policies, such...