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...

This paper analyzes the impact of the EU ETS on CO₂ reduction in the German electricity sector. We find an ETS-induced emission abatement which is not exceeding 6% of total emissions with a maximum already in 2010. Thereafter the ETS has not induced additional reductions. This outcome is...

This paper aims at characterizing the conditions of wind power deployment in order to infer a carbon price level that would provide wind power with comparable advantage over fossil fuel technologies as effective wind support policies. The analysis is conducted on Danish data from 2000 to 2010,...

Manfred Kemper: Das Umweltproblem in der Marktwirtschaft. Wirtschaftstheoretische Grundlagen und vergleichende Analyse umweltpolitischer Instrumente in der Luftreinhalte- und Gewässerschutzpolitik. Verlag Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1989, 354 Seiten, 78 DM