Household specific consumption behavior is of interest for various social and economic problems. The “Poverty Report” of the Federal government of Germany for example uses the information on consumption expenditures by different household types in the context of social participation. Other...

EXIOPOL (A New Environmental Accounting Framework Using Externality Data and Input-Output Tools for Policy Analysis) was a European Union (EU)-funded project creating a detailed, global, multiregional environmentally extended Supply and Use table (MR EE SUT) of 43 countries, 129 sectors, 80...

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 discuss environmental distribution conflicts and the role of economic growth. In...

Die Arbeiten am sozioökonomischen Modell DEMOS der GWS mbH gehen auf die Arbeiten der Kooperationsgruppe „Sozioökonomische Modellierung“ am Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung der Universität Bielefeld (ZiF) im Jahre 2004 zurück. Beteiligt waren Peter Bartelheimer (SOFI), Joachim...

Political economy may provide an important link between inequality and pollution. This paper studies the dynamic relationship between inequality and redistributive policy leading to differing transitional paths of pollution to the steady state, using a pollution-augmented framework developed by...

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...