This dissertation deals with the complex and multifaceted issue of climate change and climate policy. Since the problem touches upon many disciplines and also subfields within economics, the present study tries to bridge the gaps between different areas and dimensions of economic analysis....

This dissertation was written by Johannes Pfeiffer while he was working with the ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in November 2016 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the department of economics of the University Regensburg in December 2016. The thesis studies unintended...

We analyze monopoly power in a market for a complementary fossil resource like oil in a twocountry/two period model with international trade in general equilibrium. Focusing on thecomplex interplay of capital and resource market, we elaborate how these effects feed backinto the resource...

We analyze the effects of an announced future carbon tax increase on the extraction behaviorof a monopolistic supplier of a scarce fossil energy resource like oil in a two country, two periodgeneral equilibrium model with symmetric and homothetic preferences and no extractioncosts. Based on the...

We analyze monopoly power in a market for a complementary fossil resource like oil in a two country/two period model with international trade in general equilibrium. Focusing on the complex interplay of capital and resource market, we elaborate how these effects feed back into the resource...

We analyze monopoly power in a market for a complementary fossil resource like oil in a two country/two period model with international trade in general equilibrium. Focusing on the complex interplay of capital and resource market, we elaborate how these effects feed back into the resource...

We analyze the effects of an announced future carbon tax increase on the extraction behavior of a monopolistic supplier of a scarce fossil energy resource like oil in a two country, two period general equilibrium model with symmetric and homothetic preferences and no extraction costs. Based on...