Using a considerable number of theoretical and empirical sources, we analyze the relationship between democracy and environment. First, we compare the situation in democracies and non-democracies. Later we discusses environmental distribution conflicts and the role of ratization influences...

The article examines conditions, under which the degree of democratization influences environmental policy outcomes, with a given resource endowments' heterogeneity as a crucial feature of a politico-economic process. We develop an OLG model with pollution as an aggregate externality. The...

The question whether ageing leads to more or less inequality is not easily answered. Different, in part opposed, effects can be identified that are sensible to reactions of private households, the implementation of political measures etc. To get a better idea of the effect of demographic change...

This paper presents findings of a study of the economic impacts of climate change adaptation. To estimate these impacts on the German economy and its individual sectors we follow a two-step approach: firstly, we estimate the damages resulting from recurring flood events and heat waves, based on...

Private households constitute one of the main economic sectors. The underlying house-hold structure determines income and consumption aggregates. For example, changes in the population composition induced by demographic change or shifts in the income structure through redistributional policy...

[Einleitung] Verteilungsfragen sind traditionell eine Domäne der Sozialwissenschaften gewesen, im Bereich der Umweltökonomik spielten sie jedoch jahrelang eher eine untergeordnete Rolle. Da jeder (wirtschafts-)politischer Eingriff Verteilungswirkungen nach sich zieht, sind diese auch bei den...