We investigate the importance of taking the spatial interaction of turbines inside a wind park into account. This article provides two tests that check for wake effects and thus, take spatial interdependence into account. Those effects are suspected to have a negative influence on wind power...

In this paper, we explore the relationship between an equitable distribution of the cost shares in cooperative public good provision and the core property of Pareto-optimal allocations. Core allocations do not only fulfil an important stability condition but are also the only promising...

Handlungsempfehlungen (deutsch): Gegenseitigkeit und Vertrauen können in verschiedener Weise den Abschluss internationaler Klimaschutzvereinbarungen fördern: 1. Klimapolitische Instrumente sollten derart gestaltet werden, dass sie mit dem Prinzip der Gegenseitigkeit („Reziprozität“)...

The launch of a public project requires “enough” support from a group of n players. If players have only binary decision sets (participate or not, vote approvingly or not) this game is called a Binary Threshold Public Goods game (BTPG). In this paper we keep the individual cost/benefit...

Environmental protection policies become relevant in WTO law if they lead to extrajurisdictional effects. These effects might have different benchmarks, and may restrict free trade rules or competing policy goals. Although both forms of extrajurisdictional effects occur in WTO case law, this...

Handlungsempfehlungen (deutsch): 1. Die volle Wirksamkeit des Emissionshandels (ETS) wird dann gewährleistet, wenn pauschale Ausnahmetatbestände unterbleiben. Insbesondere die Carbon-Leakage-Liste sollte durch einen vollständigen Grenzausgleich ersetzt werden. 2. Grenzausgleichsinstrumente...

Although wind power is currently the most efficient source of renewable energy, the cost of wind electricity still exceeds the market price. Subsidies in the form of feed-in tariffs (FIT) have been introduced in many countries to support the expansion of wind power. These tariffs are highly...