We analyze the German ecotax package in a model of overlapping generations and majority voting. The package consists of the ecotax rate and the budgetary rule which assigns a fraction of the tax revenue to the reduction of pension contributions while holding pension benefits constant. The old...

Using a representative survey with 1317 individuals and 12,815 moral decisions, we elicit Swedish citizens' preferences on how algorithms for self-driving cars should be programmed in cases of unavoidable harm to humans. Participants' choices in different dilemma situations (treatments) show...

In this paper, we acknowledge that the mitigation of and adaptation to climate change have differential fiscal impacts. Whereas mitigation typically raises fiscal revenues, adaptation is costly to the taxpayer and to a greater extent the more distortionary the tax system is. In an OLG model with...

In a field experiment with 341 participants, we study whether social comparisons, either in isolation or in combination with a climate-related moral appeal, can change the use of public and car-related transportation. We do so in the context of a mobility budget offered to employees of a large...

Die Wirkungskanäle von Lobbyismus sind vielfältig und – zumindest in der Theorie – weitgehend bekannt. Jedoch gibt es nur wenig empirische Evidenz hinsichtlich der Wahrnehmung von Lobbyismus in der Bevölkerung. Vor diesem Hintergrund hat das ZEW – Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische...

We analyze non-cooperative international climate policy in a setting of political competition by national interest groups. In the first stage, countries decide whether to set up an international emission permits market, which only forms if it is supported by all countries. In the second stage,...

Based on data from broadly representative surveys among more than 1,400 citizens in Germany and Sweden, this paper empirically examines the support of different groups of climate-related (passenger) transport policy measures targeting vehicle use, public transport, air travel, and bicycle use....

In der aktuellen verkehrspolitischen Debatte zur innerstädtischen Schadstoffbelastung sowie zu Tempolimits auf Autobahnen werden zwischen den Befürwortern einer entsprechenden Maßnahme und deren Gegnern vielfach Argumente ausgetauscht, die einen evidenzbasierten, auf belastbaren Daten und...

We analyse a principal-agent relationship in the context of international climate policy. Principals in two countries first decide whether to merge domestic emission permit markets to an international market, then delegate the domestic permit supply to an agent. We find that principals select...