Technology policy is the most widespread form of climate policy and is often preferred over seemingly efficient carbon pricing. We propose a new explanation for this observation: gains that predominantly accrue to households with large capital assets and that influence majority decisions in...

We review the vast literature on social preferences by assessing what is known about their fundamental properties, their distribution in the broader population, and their consequences for important economic and political behaviors. We provide, in particular, an overview of the empirically...

Versucht man für Deutschland die Preisniveauunterschiede zu einem gegebenen Zeitpunkt kleinräumig zu untersuchen, so stellt man schnell fest, dass hierzu keine ausreichenden Informationen verfügbar sind. Im System der deutschen amtlichen Preisstatistik, aber nicht nur hier, besteht damit eine...