Currently informal and formal international negotiations on climate change take place in an intensive way since the Kyoto Protocol expires already in 2012. A post-Kyoto regulation to combat global warming is not yet stipulated. Due to rapidly increasing greenhouse-gas emission levels,...

Besides costs and benefits, fairness aspects tend to influence negotiating parties’ willingness to join an international agreement on climate change mitigation. Fairness is largely considered to improve the prospects of success of international negotiations and hence measures raising fairness...

This paper provides a theoretical analysis of suicide attacks and defection. First, decision processes of potential attackers are examined from an economist’s perspective. The results are then applied to insights from behavioural economics and psychology. We derive conditions under which...

Frequently, international environmental negotiations have been analyzed in two-agent (2 × 2) games. Yet, in order to involve additional strategies, (3 × 3) games gained attention recently. We employ such a (3 × 3) game setting in order to depict international negotiations on climate change...

Die Europäische Klimapolitik verfolgt das Ziel ihre CO2 - Emissionen zu reduzieren. Sollte die EU zentral oder dezentral über entsprechende Maßnahmen entscheiden? Welche Folgen entstehen für die europäische Wohlfahrt? Welche Rolle spielen Nicht - EU Staaten?

In diesem Lehrbuch wird das ökonomische Grundverständnis zum Thema „Energie" allgemein und über die einzelnen Teilmärkte für fossile und regenerative Energieträger schrittweise erarbeitet. Dafür werden ökonomische Zusammenhänge der Energiewirtschaft in ihren Grundzügen dargestellt...