The paper considersan industry where the effects of pollution can be off-set by investing in adaption as a private good. The focus is not on external effects, but on economies of scale that are introducted when the costs of adapting to pollution are independent from the quantity produced. The...

Dieses Buch richtet sich vor allem an sozialwissenschaftlich orientierte Nachhaltigkeitsforscher, an Fachleute aus Wirtschaft, Verwaltung und Politik sowie an all diejenigen, die sich für die gesellschaftlichen Folgen des demografischen Wandels interessieren. Der Autor untersucht, welchen...

Climate policies can target either the demand or the supply of fossil fuels. While demand-side policies have been analyzed in the literature and applied in policy-making, supply-side policies, e.g. deposit policies, are a promising option and a recent research focus. In this paper we study...