Pollution: the mess around us, by M.I. Goldman.--The great and dirty lakes, by G. Hill.--Air pollution, by A.C. Nadler and G.L. Paulson.--What is pollution? by I.M. Goldman and R. Shoop.--The role of government in a free society, by M. Friedman.--Social costs of business enterprise, by K.W....

Energy markets and energy-intensive industries in all EU member states – especially in Germany – are subject to a diverse set of policies related to climate change. We analyse the potential efficiency losses from simultaneous application of emission taxes and emissions trading in qualitative...

The author analyzes the optimal investment in environmental protection in a model of an infinite series of non-overlapping hyperbolically discounting agents. He shows that without a commitment mechanism society is eventually stuck in a situation where all agents prefer further investment in the...

Im Rückgriff auf die Innovationsforschung wird ein Ansatz für eine gemeinsame Sprache und eine konsistente Systematik für Innovationen im Umweltbereich entwickelt. Dazu werden einige allgemeine Begriffsdefinitionen der Innovationsforschung erläutert, der Begriff Umweltinnovation eingeführt...

Production often causes pollution as a by-product. Once pollution problems become too severe, regulation is introduced by political authorities which forces the economy to make a transition to cleaner production processes. We model this transition as a change in general purpose technology (GPT)...

Bei dem vorliegenden Papier handelt es sich um konzeptionelle Überlegungen, die dem Forschungsverbund "Arbeit und Ökologie" am WZB zugrunde liegen. Dieser Verbund hat sich die Aufgabe gestellt, in die derzeitigen Nachhaltigkeitsdiskurse systematisch die Interessenlagen von Arbeit einzubringen....

This paper analyzes incentives for polluting firms to exchange abatement cost information under the non-linear pollution tax scheme ('differential tax') introduced by Kim and Chang [J. Regul. Econom. 5, 1993, 193-197]. It shows that polluting firms have - under mild conditions - an incentive to...