Im Jahr 2008 wurden in der Schweiz aktive klimapolitische Massnahmen eingeführt,die zur Senkung der CO2-Emissionen beitragen sollen, um die Klimaziele im Rahmendes Kyoto-Protokolls (Senkung der Treibhausgasemissionen um 8 % im Vergleichzum Basisjahr 1990) erreichen zu können. Diese Massnahmen...

Environmental policy often has to be devised under informational constraints, like uncertainty and asymmetric information. We consider an environmental policy that aims at reducing the welfare losses caused by asymmetric information while being sufficiently simple for implementation. In this...

We consider an abstract setting of the differential r&d game, where participating firms are allowed for strategic behavior. We assume the information asymmetry across those firms and the government, which seeks to support newer technologies in a socially optimal manner. We develop a general...

We study the optimal adaptation to extreme climate events by the central government in a setup where events are dynamically uncertain and the government does not know the true probabilities of events. We analyze different policy decision rules minimizing expected welfare losses for sites with...