This volume was prepared by Rahel Aichele while she was working at the ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2012 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. The chapters investigate how, in a...

Die Dissertation fokussiert auf suboptimale, aber politisch realistische(re) Klimaschutzmassnahmen. Sie benutzt analytische und kalibrierte numerische Modelle, um das Grüne Paradoxon, CO2 leakage und die Frage zwischen einer preislichen (CO2-Steuern) und einer mengenmässigen...

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....

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...