Should climate policy rely on a price of Carbon that is uniform across sectors? This paper studies this question from a public finance perspective. It is found that a justification for a uniform price can be given, but it relies on strong assumptions, among them indifference with respect to the...

A growing literature has shown that behavioral biases influence consumer choices. Such socalled internalities are ubiquitous in many settings, including energy efficiency investments and the consumption of sin goods, such as cigarettes and sugar. In this paper, we use a mechanism design approach...

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...