The political discussion on energy efficiency is focusing more and more on the building sector due to its susceptibility to potential market failures like the negative external pollution effects of CO2 emission. Using a discrete choice approach, this paper aims at deriving factors which increase...

Klappentext: With the Price Estimation scene (PE scene) Christoph Breidert introduces a new method to estimate willingness-to-pay. It works as an additional interview scene appended to conjoint analysis and offers the respondents a dynamically generated sequence of product choices with assigned...

In der Ökonomie ist die Kenntnis des monetarisierten Werts von öffentlichen Gütern wie Sicherheit oder sauberer Luft wichtig, um eine Datenbasis für politische Entscheidungen zu haben. Diese Arbeit entwickelt ein ökonometrisches Modell um aus Umfragedaten diese Zahlungsbereitschaft...

Health economists have studied the determinants of the expected value of health status as a function of medical and non-medical inputs, often finding small marginal effects of the former. However, medical inputs may have an additional benefit in the form of a reduced variability of health...

One of the major challenges that our world faces today and in the future is human-induced climate change. The primary cause of global warming, leading to climate change, is the burning of fossil fuels for energy and transport, which increases the concentration of greenhouse gases in the...