Fossile Brennstoffe tragen heute zu über 80% zur Deckung der globalen Energienachfrage bei und verursachen damit 57% der anthropogenen Treibhausgasemissionen. Eine Abkehr von der fossilen Energie ist nicht in Sicht. Im Gegenteil, die weltweite Abhängigkeit von fossilen Energieträgern nahm in...

This dissertation was written by Johannes Pfeiffer while he was working with the ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in November 2016 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the department of economics of the University Regensburg in December 2016. The thesis studies unintended...

The thesis studies unintended intertemporal reactions of fossil resource supply to climate policies, which often are subsumed under the notion of the green paradox, while taking into account the interrelationship between the resource and the capital market in a general equilibrium framework. Its...

We analyze the effects of an announced future carbon tax increase on the extraction behavior of a monopolistic supplier of a scarce fossil energy resource like oil in a two country, two period general equilibrium model with symmetric and homothetic preferences and no extraction costs. Based on...

We analyze monopoly power in a market for a complementary fossil resource like oil in a two country/two period model with international trade in general equilibrium. Focusing on the complex interplay of capital and resource market, we elaborate how these effects feed back into the resource...

Rund 80% der weltweiten Energienachfrage werden derzeit aus Erdöl, Kohle und Erdgas gedeckt. Der Anteil nichtfossiler Energieträger - die Summe aus erneuerbaren Energien und der Atomkraft - am Gesamtenergieverbrauch von 135 Ländern ist immer noch gering. Im Jahr 2007 deckten nur 22 Länder...