Inwieweit haben Ergebnisse der vom Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie (BMBF) geförderten Vorhaben Eingang in nationale Gesetze, Verordnungen, Verwaltungsvorschriften, Richtlinien und Normen im Umweltschutz gefunden? Die systematische Darstellung erfaßt die...

This paper studies the adoption of high-cost, medium-cost, and low-cost energyefficient technologies (EETs) by income categories in eight European Union countries, relying on demographically representative household surveys carried out simultaneously among about 15,000 households in France,...

This paper studies the adoption of high-cost, medium-cost, and low-cost ener-gy-efficient technologies (EETs) by income categories across eight European Union countries. The statistical-econometric analyses allow the effects of in-come to differ by income quartiles and across countries. They...

Improving energy efficiency is seen as a core strategy for a sustainable energy system, because it may contribute to cost savings for companies and private households, cost-effectively reduces greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants, increases security of supply for required energy...

This dissertation extends the Grossman-Helpman models of endogenous trade policy formation to incorporate local and global production and consumption externalities, and to allow governments to choose domestic production or consumption policies together with trade interventions. The models...