I estimate the level of emissions cost pass-through to hourly wholesale electricity prices in Germany, based on spot market data. I control for contemporaneous shocks to demand and supply by constructing a detailed supply curve for fossil generation, and intersecting it with residual demand for...

Johannes Heister/Peter Michaelis und andere: Umweltpolitik mit handelbaren Emissionsrechten. Möglichkeiten zur Verringerung der Kohlendioxyd- und Stickoxydemissionen. Kieler Studien, Verlag J. C. B. Mohr, Tübingen 1991. 292 Seiten, 79 DM (broschiert), 99 DM (gebunden)

This paper adds to the scarce empirical evidence related to the impact of climate change on the manufacturing sector. To study the effect of temperature on energy use and CO2 emissions daily temperature information from 11.000 German municipalities are combined with the census of the...

Climate change will further increase not only the frequency but also the intensity of extreme weather events. As a result, weather conditions favouring pneumonia occurrence - suddenly warmer weather during cold seasons - can increase due to higher meteorological variability which is also linked...