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Published Work
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
- Analysing the effectiveness of international environmental policies: The case of the Kyoto Protocol (with C. Almer) [Preprint]
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, forthcoming
- Political influence on non-cooperative international climate policy (with W. Habla) [Preprint]
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 66: 219–234, 2013
- Trading-off generations: equity, discounting and climate change (with M. T. Schneider and C. Traeger)
[Preprint]
European Economic Review, 56: 1621–1644, 2012
- Global refunding and climate change (with H. Gersbach)
[Preprint]
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 36: 1775–1795, 2012
- A note on the optimal control of stocks accumulating with a delay [Preprint]
Macroeconomic Dynamics, 15: 565–578, 2011
- International emission permits markets with refunding (with H. Gersbach)
[Preprint]
European Economic Review, 55: 759–773, 2011
- Distorted time preferences and time-to-build in the transition to a low-carbon energy industry (with C. Heinzel)
[Preprint]
Environmental and Resource Economics, 49: 217–241, 2011
- Why do ICDPs fail? The relationship between agriculture, hunting and ecotourism in wildlife conservation
[Preprint]
Resource and Energy Economics, 33: 55–78, 2011
- Wasted waste: an evolutionary perspective on industrial by-products (with J. Kronenberg)
[Preprint]
Ecological Economics, 68: 3026–3033, 2009
- Now or never. Environmental protection under hyperbolic discounting
Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, 3: 2009-12, 2009
- Optimal dynamic scale and structure of a multi-pollution economy (with S. Baumgärtner and F. Jöst)
[Preprint]
Ecological Economics, 68: 1226–1238, 2009
- Optimal compliance with emission constraints. Dynamic characteristics and the choice of technique
[Preprint]
Environmental and Resource Economics, 39: 411–432, 2008
- Numerical solution of optimal control problems with constant control delays (with U. Brandt-Pollmann, S. Sager, U. Moslener and J. Schlöder)
[Preprint]
Computational Economics, 31: 181–206, 2008
- Introduction to the special issue complexity and ecological economics (with K. Farrell)
Ecological Complexity, 3: 265–274, 2006
- Heterogeneity and time: from neo-Austrian capital theory to ecological economics (with M. Faber)
American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 65: 803–825, 2006
- Valuation of ecosystem goods and services. Part 1: an integrated dynamic approach
[Preprint]
Ecological Economics, 59: 82–93, 2006
- Valuation of ecosystem goods and services. Part 2: implications of unpredictable novel change
[Preprint]
Ecological Economics, 59: 95–105, 2006
- Does 'better' discounting lead to 'worse' outcomes in long-run decisions? The dilemma of hyperbolic discounting
[Preprint]
Ecological Economics, 57: 573–582, 2006
- Structural change with joint production of consumption and environmental pollution: A neo-Austrian approach
[Preprint]
Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 16:111–135, 2005
- Preisambivalenz von Altpapier. Eine ökonomische Konsequenz der deutschen Abfallgesetzgebung 1985–2000 (with S. Baumgärtner)
Zeitschrift für angewandte Umweltforschung – Journal of Environmental Research, 15/16: 239–255, 2003/4
- Markets, technology and environmental regulation: Price ambivalence of waste paper in Germany (with S. Baumgärtner)
[Preprint]
Ecological Economics, 47: 183–195, 2003
- COMBO-FISH: specific labeling of nondenatured chromatin targets by computer-selected DNA oligonucleotide probe combinations (with M. Hausmann, G. Hildenbrand, J. Finsterle, A. Weisel, A. Rapp, S. Janz and C. Cremer)
Biotechniques, 35: 564–577, 2003
- Labelling quality and chromosome morphology after low temperature FISH analysed by scanning far-field and near-field optical microscopy (with Perner, A. Rapp, M. Durm, C. Cremer, K.-O. Greulich and M. Hausmann)
Journal of Microscopy, 209: 22–33, 2003
Guest editor of peer-reviewed journals
- Special Issue: Complexity and Ecological Economics (with K. Farrell)
Ecological Complexity 3(4), 2006
Articels in books and volumes
- Energy consumption of buildings: Direct impacts of a warming climate and rebound effects (with C. Almer, C. Bader, C. Gonseth, J. Laurent-Lucchetti, P. Thalmann and M. Vielle)
In: CH2014-Impacts: Toward Quantitative Scenarios of Climate Change Impacts in Switzerland Winkler. OCCR, FOEN, MeteoSwiss, C2SM, Agroscope, and ProClim, Bern, 2014
- Valuation of ecosystem goods and services. Part 1: an integrated dynamic approach
In C. Perrings (Editor): Ecological Economics. Volume III: Ecosystem Services. Sage, Los Angeles, 2008
- Valuation of ecosystem goods and services. Part 2: implications of unpredictable novel change
In C. Perrings (Editor): Ecological Economics. Volume III: Ecosystem Services. Sage, Los Angeles, 2008
- Structural change under joint production
In S. Baumgärtner, M. Faber and J. Schiller: Joint Production and Responsibility in Ecological Economics. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2006
- Waste paper: price ambivalence (with S. Baumgärtner)
In S. Baumgärtner, M. Faber and J. Schiller: Joint Production and Responsibility in Ecological Economics. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2006
- Time lags in capital accumulation (with U. Brandt-Pollmann, U. Moslener and J. Schlöder)
In D. Ahr, R. Fahrion, M. Oswald, and G. Reinelt (Eds.). Operations Research Proceedings 2003. Springer, Heidelberg, 2004
Books
Current Research
Current working papers and manuscripts
- Sustainable climate treaties (with H. Gersbach and N. Hummel)
Working Paper No. 11-05, Department of Economics, University of Bern, June 2011
- Growth and welfare under endogenous lifetime (with M. T. Schneider)
Research Paper Paper No. 47/16, Department of Economics, University of Bath, February 2016
- Strategic delegation and non-cooperative international permit markets (with W. Habla)
Working Paper No. 636, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, November 2015
- Sharing a river with downstream externalities (with S. Steinmann)
Working Paper No. 15-08, Department of Economics, University of Bern, July 2015
- Strategic behavior in IEAs: When and why countries joined the Kyoto Protocol (with C. Almer)
Working Paper No. 10-14, Department of Economics, University of Bern, November 2010
Work in progress
- The intricacy of adapting to climate change: Flood protection as a local public goods game (with A. Bondarev, B. Hintermann and F. Krysiak)
- A Market mechanism for sustainable and efficient resource use under uncertainty (with M. Quaas)
- Mobile capital and non-cooperative international environmental policy (with W. Habla)
- Time-to-build in the AK growth model: short-run dynamics and response to exogenous shocks
- Technology transfer and global climate change: Challenge or threat? (with J. Laurent-Lucchetti and G. Stephan)
Unpublished working papers and manuscripts
- Optimal control of pollutants with delayed stock accumulation
Working Paper No. 08/91, CER-ETH, ETH Zürich, July 2008
- On the transition from instantaneous to time-lagged capital accumulation. The case of Leontief-type production functions (with U. Brandt-Pollmann, U. Moslener and J. Schlöder)
Discussion Paper No. 05-30, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, April 2005
- Intertemporal efficiency and equity under hyperbolic preferences. Ex ante versus ex post procrastination
Discussion Paper No. 402, Department of Economics, University of Heidelberg, January 2004
- Price ambivalence on the German waste paper market. Stylized facts and a dynamic model (with S. Baumgärtner)
Manuscript, University of Heidelberg, April 2002
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