Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/41436 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 10-068
Publisher: 
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
Abstract: 
In this paper, we investigate the real demand for climate protection. For this purpose we conducted a framed field experiment with a sample of the residential population in Mannheim, Germany. Participants were endowed with € 40 and given the opportunity to contribute to climate protection by purchasing European Union Allowances. Purchased allowances were withdrawn from the European Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). While the median willingness to pay (WTP) for climate protection is zero the mean WTP is approximately € 12/tCO2. We analyse determinants of the observed individual demand behaviour and discuss the potential consequences, which result from the remarkably low WTP and its distribution for German climate policy.
Subjects: 
experimental economics
demand for climate protection
climate change
willingness to pay
JEL: 
Q51
Q54
C93
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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