• Prof. Dr. Ralph Winkler

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Current Research

Current working papers and manuscripts

• The Effect of Kyoto Emission Targets on Domestic CO₂ Emissions: A Synthetic Control Approach (with C. Almer)
  Working Paper No. 12-02, Department of Economics, University of Bern, January 2012
• Political influence on non-cooperative international climate policy (with W. Habla)
  Working Paper No. 11-06, Department of Economics, University of Bern, August 2011
• Sustainable climate treaties (with H. Gersbach and N. Hummel)
  Working Paper No. 11-05, Department of Economics, University of Bern, June 2011
• 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
• Growth and welfare under endogenous lifetime (with M. T. Schneider)
  Working Paper No. 10-13, Department of Economics, University of Bern, September 2010
• Trading-off generations: infinitely lived agent versus OLG (with M. T. Schneider and C. Traeger)
  Working Paper No. 10-07, Department of Economics, University of Bern, March 2010
• On the design of global refunding and climate change (with H. Gersbach)
  Working Paper No. 07/69, CER-ETH, ETH Zurich, June 2007

Work in progress

• Markets for sustainability (with M. Quaas)
• 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)
• Bequests and climate change (with C. Almer and M. T. Schneider )

Published Work

Books

• Zeitverzögerte Dynamik von Kapital- und Schadstoffbeständen. Eine östereichische Perspektive. Metropolis-verlag, Marburg, 2003.

Guest editor of peer-reviewed journals

• Special Issue: Complexity and Ecological Economics (with K. Farrell)
  Ecological Complexity 3(4), 2006

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

• A note on the optimal control of stocks accumulating with a delay
  Macroeconomic Dynamics, 15: 565–578, 2011
• International emission permits markets with refunding (with H. Gersbach)
  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)
  Environmental and Resource Economics, 49: 217–241, 2011
• Why do ICDPs fail? The relationship between agriculture, hunting and ecotourism in wildlife conservation
  Resource and Energy Economics, 33: 55–78, 2011
• Wasted waste: an evolutionary perspective on industrial by-products (with J. Kronenberg)
  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)
  Ecological Economics 68: 1226–1238, 2009
• Optimal compliance with emission constraints. Dynamic characteristics and the choice of technique
  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)
  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
  Ecological Economics 59: 82–93, 2006
• Valuation of ecosystem goods and services. Part 2: implications of unpredictable novel change
  Ecological Economics 59: 95–105, 2006
• Does 'better' discounting lead to 'worse' outcomes in long-run decisions? The dilemma of hyperbolic discounting
  Ecological Economics 57: 573–582, 2006
• Structural change with joint production of consumption and environmental pollution: A neo-Austrian approach
  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)
  Ecological Economics 47: 183–195, 2003
• COMBO-FISH: A new approach for specific labeling of non-denatured chromatin targets by computer selected DNA oligo-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

Articels in books and volumes

• 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

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