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The Determinants of Private Flood Mitigation Measures in Germany – Evidence from a Nationwide Survey
Osberghaus, Daniel - 2014
Public flood protection cannot totally eliminate the risk of flooding. Hence, private mitigation measures which … proactively protect homes from being flooded or reduce flood damage are an essential part of modern flood risk management. This … study analyses private flood mitigation measures among German households. The dataset covers more than 6000 households from …
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The Demand for Index-Based Flood Insurance in a High-Income Country
Achtnicht, Martin - 2016
Flood insurance helps to cope with the risk of flooding, but take-up rates are relatively low. Insurance density could … damage data for a major flood in 2013. We find IBI to attract similar customers as DBI, while DBI is preferred on average …
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Climate Change Affectedness and Innovation in German Firms
Horbach, Jens; Rammer, Christian - 2022
Eco-innovations are crucial for the mitigation of climate change effects. It is therefore important to know if the existing climate change regulations and carbon pricing are appropriate and sufficient to trigger such innovations. Besides government measures, the demand for carbon neutral...
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Environmental Innovation and Employment Dynamics in Different Technology Fields - An Analysis Based on the German Community Innovation Survey 2009
Horbach, Jens - 2014
The employment effects of environmental technologies are in the focus of politicians but there are only few studies analyzing these effects for different environmental innovation fields. We use the 2009 wave of the German part of the Community Innovation Panel (CIS) allowing for such an analysis...
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Between- and Within-Country Distributional Impacts from Harmonizing Carbon Prices in the EU
Landis, Florian; Fredriksson, Gustav; Rausch, Sebastian - 2021
This paper examines the distributional impacts from (i) harmonizing prices for carbon dioxide emissions across sectors and EU countries and (ii) using alternative rules for carbon revenue distribution. We develop a numerical multi-country multi-sector general equilibrium model of the EU-27...
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The Effect of Regulatory Scrutiny Asymmetric Cost Pass-Through in Power Wholesale and Its End
Mokinski, Frieder - 2013
We find an asymmetric pass-through of European Emission Allowance (EUA) prices to wholesale electricity prices in Germany and show that this asymmetry has disappeared in response to a report on investigations by the competition authority. The asymmetric pricing pattern, however, was not detected...
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Emissions Trading and Productivity : Firm-Level Evidence from German Manufacturing
Lutz, Benjamin Johannes - 2016
I study the causal effect of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) on the productivity of German manufacturing firms. Using administrative firm-level data, I estimate robust production functions for narrowly defined industries. This approach allows for an endogenous dynamic...
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Why Does Emissions Trading Under the EU ETS Not Affect Firms’ Competitiveness? Empirical Findings from the Literature
Joltreau, Eugénie - 2016
Environmental policies may have important consequences for firms' competitiveness or profitability. However, the empirical literature shows that hardly any statistically significant effects on firms can be detected for the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). On the basis of...
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The Impacts of the EU ETS on Efficiency – An Empirical Analyses for German Manufacturing Firms
Löschel, Andreas - 2017
We investigate the effect of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) on the economic performance of manufacturing firms in Germany. Our difference-in-differences framework relies on several parametric conditioning strategies and nearest neighbor matching. As a measure of economic...
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Environmental Innovation and Firm Profitability – An Analysis with Respect to Firm Size
Axenbeck, Janna - 2019
This paper investigates the effect of environmental innovations on firm profitability with respect to differences between small and medium-sized (SME) and large (LE) enterprises. Using data from the Mannheim Innovation Panel (MIP) 2015, results show that, in general, SME benefit more from...
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