Der Klimawandel und das globale öffentliche Gut Klimaschutz genießen große Aufmerksamkeit in der öffentlichen Debatte. Klimaschutz verursacht jedoch Kosten und es stellt sich die Frage, was die Menschen in Deutschland tatsächlich für Klimaschutz bereit sind zu zahlen. Dieser Beitrag stellt...

Vorwort -- 1 Die ökonomische Sicht der Dinge.- 2 Marktversagen durch externe Effekte -- 3 Das Coase Theorem -- 4 Die Charakteristika von Umweltgütern -- 5 Instrumente der Umweltpolitik -- 6 Der Klimawandel als globales Umweltproblem -- 7 Empirische Evidenz zur Bereitstellung öffentlicher...

Obtaining significant levels of cooperation in public good and environmental games, under the assumption of players being purely selfish, is usually prevented by the problem of freeriding. Coalitions, in fact, generally fail to be internally stable and this cause a serious underprovision of the...

Given the ubiquitous scarcity of resources an economic approach is necessary in order to determine an optimal strategy of adaptation to climate change. In this paper we develop an economic framework for the study of adaptation which allows us to distinguish between decentralized adaptation by...

Given the ubiquitous scarcity of resources an economic approach is necessary in order to determine an optimal strategy of adaptation to climate change. In this paper we develop an economic framework for the study of adaptation which allows us to distinguish between decentralized adaptation by...