Many industrialized countries have recognized the need to mitigate energy cost increases faced by low-income households by fostering the adoption of energy-efficient technologies. How to meet this need is an open question, but "behavioral insights" are likely components of future policy designs....

Das Pariser Abkommen fordert, die durchschnittliche globale Erderwärmung auf maximal 2êC zu begrenzen und eine Begrenzung auf 1,5êC anzustreben (Art. 2(1)(a) Pariser Abkommen). Anders als bisherige Klimaschutzabkommen definiert das Abkommen jedoch keine materiellen Verpflichtungen für...

Cities are increasingly hold accountable for climate action. By demonstrating their proenvironmentality through own climate-related activities, they not at least aspire to encourage individual climate protection efforts. Based on standard economic theory there is little reason to assume that...

We contribute to the literature on how program design affects program performance among vulnerable groups by studying the effects of varying the subsidy level and program procedures in an energy efficiency assistance program targeting low-income households in Germany. Eligible households...

Cities are increasingly hold accountable for climate action. By demonstrating their proenvironmentality through own climate-related activities, they not at least aspire to encourage individual climate protection efforts. Based on standard economic theory there is little reason to assume that...

We experimentally test a theoretically promising amendment to the ratchet-up mechanism of the Paris Agreement. The ratchet-up mechanism prescribes that parties' commitments to the global response to climate change cannot decrease over time and our results confirm that its effect is detrimental....

Most empirical studies on private climate change adaptation rely on self-reported intentions which often fail to translate into real actions. Consequently, this strand of literature can only insufficiently account for the intention behavior gap (IBG) in climate change adaptation, which...

Max Lay und Andreas Peichl, ifo Institut, schätzen die Budgetwirkungen der Entlastungspakete über die drei Jahre auf 130 Mrd. Euro oder auf 3,6% in Relation zum Bruttoinlandsprodukt im Jahr 2021. Dies sei eher die Untergrenze. Zudem gingen die Versuche des Staates, die Bevölkerung in der...

We have collected data from a world-wide survey among COP delegates to empirically investigate preferences for certain burden sharing rules among key groups in a setting that reflects the possibility of observing concessions from negotiating partners. In our survey, the participants had the...