Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. It is a global problem that has to be understood in the context of a globalising world with an increasing amount of goods being traded. This dissertation focuses on the interrelation between international trade and climate policies....

The thesis at hand includes three distinct essays that analyze economic issues related to liberalized electricity markets. In the first essay, the effects of capacity mechanisms on the market structure in electricity markets are investigated. We consider a model with dominant firms and a...

Das Vertrauen der Verbraucher in die Finanzdienstleistungsbranche hat in den letzten Jahren stark abgenommen und befindet sich auf einem Tiefpunkt. Schuld an dieser Situation sind oftmals die Strukturen der verkaufsorientierten Finanzberatung. Ein häufig genanntes Problem in diesem Zusammenhang...