Using representative household survey panel data from Germany, we undertake a simultaneous assessment of the importance of factors that have individually been found significant for the adoption of renewable energy systems but have never been tested jointly. These are sociodemographic and housing characteristics, environmental concern, personality traits, and economic factors, i.e. the expected costs ...
High-worth individuals are typically underrepresented or completely missing in population surveys. The lack of a register-based sampling frame on high-worth individuals in many countries challenged previous attempts to sample high-worth individuals in voluntary scientific surveys. In a novel research design, we draw on register data on the shareholding structures of companies as a sampling frame. Our ...
We develop a multi-horizon stochastic equilibrium model for analyzing energy markets, with particular attention to infrastructure development and renewable energy policies in perfect and imperfect market structures. By decoupling short-term operational decisions feedback from long-term strategic investment decisions, the multi-horizon approach allows to consider long-term and short-term uncertainties ...
This modeling comparison exercise looks at the global consequences of increased shale gas production in the U.S. and increased gas demand from Asia. We find that differences in models' theoretical construct and assumptions can lead to divergences in their predictions about the consequences of U.S. shale gas boom. In general, models find that U.S. High Shale Gas scenario leads to increased U.S. production, ...
Duties and taxes on cars are an important source of revenue for European governments and the tax systems are also designed with the goal of achieving environmental policy objectives. A systematic and quantitative comparison of passenger car taxation in 30 European countries shows significant differences among them. However, in almost every country, the use of vehicles with diesel engines is taxed less ...
Bei einem systematischen Europa-Vergleich aller Abgaben auf Pkw belegt Deutschland einen Platz im unteren Drittel – Pkw-Abgaben sind hierzulande weder fiskalisch ausreichend ergiebig, noch setzen sie hinlänglich Anreize für einen weniger umweltbelastenden Pkw-Verkehr Deutschland sollte die Besteuerung von Personenkraftwagen und Kraftstoffen reformieren, Priorität sollte dabei ...
In a systematic European comparison of taxes and duties on passenger cars, Germany is in the lower third – Taxes on passenger cars neither raise enough revenue nor provide sufficient incentives for less polluting passenger car traffic. Germany needs to reform its passenger car and fuel taxation and make a gradual increase in the diesel tax a priority. This is the conclusion reached by Uwe Kunert, ...
