• Prof. Dr. Ralph Winkler

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Research Interests

Climate Change and Environmental Policy

Discounting in long-run decisions

Publications:

• Now or never. Environmental protection under hyperbolic discounting
  Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 3: 2009-12, 2009
• Does 'better' discounting lead to 'worse' outcomes in long-run decisions? The dilemma of hyperbolic discounting
  Ecological Economics 57: 573–582, 2006

Working Papers:

• Trading-off generations: infinitely lived agent versus OLG (with M. Schneider and C. Traeger)
  Manuscript, Department of Economics, University of Bern, December 2009
• 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

Technological and structural change in the mitigation of climate change

Publications:

• 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
• Structural change under joint production
  In S. Baumgärtner, M. Faber and J. Schiller: Joint Production and Responsibility in Ecological Economics. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2006
• Structural change with joint production of consumption and environmental pollution: A neo-Austrian approach
  Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 16:111–135, 2005

Working Papers:

• The role of environmental and technology policies in the transition to a low-carbon energy industry (with C. Heinzel) Working Paper No. 07/71, CER-ETH, ETH Zurich, July 2007

International environmental agreements

Working Papers:

• How to Combat Climate Change? The Determinants of Joining in and Complying with the Kyoto Protocol (with C. Almer)
  Manuscript, Department of Economics, University of Bern, January 2010
• International emission permits markets with refunding (with H. Gersbach)
  Working Paper No. 08/97, CER-ETH, ETH Zürich, October 2008
• On the design of global refunding and climate change (with H. Gersbach)
  Working Paper No. 07/69, CER-ETH, ETH Zurich, June 2007

Other Research Interests

Natural resource management and development

Publications:

• Why do ICDPs fail? The relationship between agriculture, hunting and ecotourism in wildlife conservation
  Resource and Energy Economics, forthcoming
• Valuation of ecosystem goods and services. Part 1: an integrated dynamic approach
  Ecological Economics 59: 82–93, 2006 (Reprinted 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
  Ecological Economics 59: 95–105, 2006 (Reprinted in: C. Perrings (Editor): Ecological Economics. Volume III: Ecosystem Services. Sage, Los Angeles, 2008)

Waste management and regulation

Publications:

• Wasted waste: an evolutionary perspective on industrial by-products (with J. Kronenberg)
  Ecological Economics, 68: 3026–3033, 2009
• 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
• 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

Working Papers:

• Price ambivalence on the German waste paper market. Stylized facts and a dynamic model (with S. Baumgärtner)
  Manuscript, University of Heidelberg, April 2002

Growth theory

Publications:

• A note on the optimal control of stocks accumulating with a delay
  Macroeconomic Dynamics, forthcoming
• 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
• Time lags in capital accumulation (with U. Brandt-Pollmann, S. Sager, U. Moslener and J. Schlöder)
  In D. Ahr, R. Fahrion, M. Oswald, and G. Reinelt (Eds.). Operations Research Proceedings 2003. Springer, Heidelberg, 2004

Working Papers:

• 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