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Fairness and the support of redistributive environmental policies
Andor, Mark Andreas; Lange, Andreas; Sommer, Stephan - 2022
Exemptions from costly policy measures are frequently applied to alleviate financial burdens to specific market participants. Using a stated-choice experiment with around 6,000 German household heads, we test how exemptions for low-income households and energy-intensive companies influence the...
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Diverging beliefs on climate change and climate policy in Germany : the role of political orientations
Knollenborg, Leonard; Sommer, Stephan - 2021
Using longitudinal data from two household surveys in 2017 and 2019, we analyze the determinants of climate skepticism in Germany. We find that nearly 20% of respondents state that they do not believe in climate change and more than 30% are doubtful that climate change is mainly caused by human...
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Environmental management systems : does certification pay?
Frondel, Manuel; Krätschell, Karoline; Zwick, Lina - 2014
The voluntary adoption of environmental management systems (EMS), frequently certified by third-party audits following international standards, has become a vital supplement to mandatory environmental policies based on regulation and legislation. Although there is empirical evidence that both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010437499
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The impact of climate-related fiscal and financial policies on carbon emissions in G20 countries : a panel quantile regression approach
D'Orazio, Paola; Dirks, Maximilian W. - 2020
This paper investigates the impact of climate-related fiscal and financial policies on CO2 emissions implemented by G20 countries in the period 2000-2017. The analysis show that the impact of various policy instruments is heterogeneous across the carbon emissions distribution. In particular, the...
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From low emission zone to academic track : environmental policy effects on educational achievement in elementary school
Brehm, Johannes; Pestel, Nico; Schaffner, Sandra; … - 2022
Low Emission Zones (LEZs) reduce local air pollution by restricting emission-intensive vehicles from accessing designated areas and have been shown to improve population health. Little is known about the effects of driving restriction policies on other areas of life. This paper studies the...
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A regression on climate policy : the European commission's proposal to reduce CO2 emissions from transport
Frondel, Manuel (contributor);  … - 2008
As part of its efforts to reach the targets of the Kyoto Protocol, the European Commission is currently considering a new directive to reduce the per-kilometer CO2 emissions of newly registered automobiles. This paper critically assesses this proposal with respect to its economic and...
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Returns to education in Europe : detailed results from a harmonized survey
Middendorf, Torge (contributor) - 2008
We use the European Community Household Panel, a harmonized data set covering the countries of the European Union, to provide detailed estimates of the returns to education. Our results can be summarized as follows. Firstly, average returns to education have been mostly stable during the second...
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Emissions trading : impact on electricity prices and energy-intensive industries
Frondel, Manuel (contributor);  … - 2008
The EU-wide Emission Trading Scheme (ETS), established in 2005, is a key pillar of Europe¿s strategy to attain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003785029
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Trade-FDI linkages in a system of gravity equations for German regional data
Mitze, Timo (contributor); Alecke, Björn (contributor);  … - 2009
We analyse the nature of German trade-FDI linkages within the EU27 based on a simultaneous equation gravity approach … one hand, and also their interaction with the 'core' EU15 member states opposed to the overall EU27 aggregate on the other … hand. Taking West German-EU27 trade & FDI as an example, the identified pairwise linkages closely follow the theoretical …
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Fiscal stimulus packages and uncertainty in times of crisis : the option of waiting can be valuable, though!
Belke, Ansgar (contributor) - 2009
Policymakers in the EU member states are currently shaping rescue packages to prevent the financial crisis hitting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003811803