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Working Papers

2019

1. A Risk-Hedging View to Refinery Capacity Investment
   Working Papers, Economic Research Forum
2. Growth and Collapse of Empires: A Dynamic Optimization Model
   VID Working Papers, Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna View citations (2)
   See also Journal Article Growth and Collapse of Empires: A Dynamic Optimization Model, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Springer (2020) View citations (1) (2020)

2015

3. Climate policies with private information: The case for unilateral action
   Working Papers, University of Oldenburg, Department of Economics View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Climate Policies with Private Information: The Case for Unilateral Action, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, University of Chicago Press (2016) View citations (1) (2016)

2014

4. The Principal-Agent Model with Multilateral Externalities: An Application to Climate Agreements
   ZenTra Working Papers in Transnational Studies, ZenTra - Center for Transnational Studies View citations (14)
   See also Journal Article The principal–agent model with multilateral externalities: An application to climate agreements, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier (2014) View citations (14) (2014)

2011

5. International Environmental Agreements: Incentive Contracts with Multilateral Externalities
   Working Papers, University of Oldenburg, Department of Economics View citations (3)

2001

6. History Dependence and Global Dynamics in Models with Multiple Equilibria
   Computing in Economics and Finance 2001, Society for Computational Economics View citations (12)
7. The dynamics of a simple relative adjustment-cost framework
   Other publications TiSEM, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management View citations (9)
   See also Journal Article The Dynamics of a Simple Relative Adjustment Cost Framework, German Economic Review, Verein für Socialpolitik (2001) View citations (11) (2001)

Journal Articles

2022

1. Environmental incentives facing private information
   Environment and Development Economics, 2022, 27, (2), 167-183
2. Going downstream – An economical option for oil and gas exporting countries?
   Energy Policy, 2022, 161, (C) View citations (3)
3. On the matthew effect on individual investments in skills in arts, sports and science
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 196, (C), 178-199 View citations (1)

2021

4. A Risk-Hedging View to Refinery Capacity Investment in OPEC Countries
   The Energy Journal, 2021, Volume 42, (Number 1), 67-92 View citations (2)
5. Incentivizing by example and money
   Central European Journal of Operations Research, 2021, 29, (1), 89-111 View citations (1)
6. Multitasking: incentivizing agents differing either in their work ethic or intrinsic motivation
   Journal of Economics, 2021, 132, (1), 41-65
7. Total factor productivity, its components and drivers
   Empirica, 2021, 48, (2), 283-327 View citations (9)

2020

8. Cheating as a dynamic marketing strategy in monopoly, cartel and duopoly
   Central European Journal of Operations Research, 2020, 28, (2), 461-478 View citations (1)
9. Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions in the Oil and Gas Industry: An Overview
   Energies, 2020, 13, (21), 1-25 View citations (5)
10. Growth and Collapse of Empires: A Dynamic Optimization Model
    Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 2020, 186, (2), 620-643 View citations (1)
    See also Working Paper Growth and Collapse of Empires: A Dynamic Optimization Model, VID Working Papers (2019) View citations (2) (2019)

2019

11. Incentivizing Energy Efficiency under Private Information: The Social Optimum
    The Energy Journal, 2019, Volume 40, (Number 6)
12. Individuals' valuation of a publicly provided private good evidence from a field study
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2019, 8, (1), 90-108

2018

13. Agency Model and Wholesale Pricing: Apple versus Amazon in the E-Book Market
    International Journal of the Economics of Business, 2018, 25, (2), 243-264 View citations (13)
14. Climate Engineering in an Interconnected World: The Role of Tariffs
    Dynamic Games and Applications, 2018, 8, (3), 573-587 View citations (2)
15. Determinants of oil price subsidies in oil and gas exporting countries
    Energy Policy, 2018, 122, (C), 409-420 View citations (8)

2017

16. Information as potential key determinant in switching electricity suppliers
    Journal of Business Economics, 2017, 87, (2), 263-290 View citations (5)

2016

17. Climate Policies with Private Information: The Case for Unilateral Action
    Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2016, 3, (4), 893 - 916 View citations (1)
    See also Working Paper Climate policies with private information: The case for unilateral action, Working Papers (2015) View citations (1) (2015)
18. Indeterminacy and history dependence of strategically interacting players
    Economics Letters, 2016, 145, (C), 19-24 View citations (3)
19. Multilateral externalities: Contracts with private information either about costs or benefits
    Economics Letters, 2016, 141, (C), 27-31 View citations (3)

2015

20. Downstream and upstream oligopolies when retailer’s effort matters
    Journal of Economics, 2015, 116, (2), 99-127 View citations (6)
21. Optimal pollution management when discount rates are endogenous
    Resource and Energy Economics, 2015, 42, (C), 53-70 View citations (12)
22. Output adjusting cartels facing dynamic, convex demand under uncertainty: The case of OPEC
    Economic Modelling, 2015, 44, (C), 307-316 View citations (1)
23. White certificates — Energy efficiency programs under private information of consumers
    Energy Economics, 2015, 49, (C), 507-515 View citations (12)

2014

24. A Dynamic Analysis of Schelling’s Binary Corruption Model: A Competitive Equilibrium Approach
    Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 2014, 161, (2), 608-625 View citations (3)
25. Taxes versus permits as incentive for the intertemporal supply of a clean technology by a monopoly
    Resource and Energy Economics, 2014, 36, (1), 248-269 View citations (12)
26. The principal–agent model with multilateral externalities: An application to climate agreements
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2014, 67, (2), 141-154 View citations (14)
    See also Working Paper The Principal-Agent Model with Multilateral Externalities: An Application to Climate Agreements, ZenTra Working Papers in Transnational Studies (2014) View citations (14) (2014)

2013

27. Comparing Environmental Policy Instruments Within an Incomplete Contract Framework
    Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2013, 15, (2), 319-340
28. Individual firm and market dynamics of CSR activities
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2013, 86, (C), 169-182 View citations (14)

2012

29. Global warming: Prices versus quantities from a strategic point of view
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2012, 64, (2), 217-229 View citations (30)
30. Interdependencies between transport fuel demand, efficiency and quality: An application to Austria
    Energy Policy, 2012, 41, (C), 47-58 View citations (9)

2011

31. Auction design for gas pipeline transportation capacity--The case of Nabucco and its open season
    Energy Policy, 2011, 39, (4), 2143-2151 View citations (2)
32. Conditions for indeterminacy and thresholds in neoclassical growth models
    Journal of Economics, 2011, 102, (3), 193-215 View citations (7)
33. Global Warming with Green and Brown Consumers
    Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2011, 113, (4), 866-884 View citations (9)
34. Storage and Demand Side Management as power generator’s strategic instruments to influence demand and prices
    Energy, 2011, 36, (11), 6308-6317 View citations (7)
35. Taxing incumbent monopoly to foster entry
    Energy Economics, 2011, 33, (3), 388-398 View citations (1)

2010

36. Dynamic demand and noncompetitive intertemporal output adjustments
    International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2010, 28, (3), 220-229 View citations (6)
37. Gustav Feichtinger celebrates his 70th birthday
    Central European Journal of Operations Research, 2010, 18, (4), 437-451
38. Modelling Social Dynamics (of Obesity) and Thresholds
    Games, 2010, 1, (4), 1-20 View citations (5)
39. Optimal Pricing of Nondurables when Demand is Dynamic and Stochastic
    International Journal of the Economics of Business, 2010, 17, (2), 187-206

2009

40. Intertemporal monopolistic pricing of non-durables
    Journal of Economics, 2009, 97, (2), 97-119
41. Non-cooperative investment in partnerships and their termination
    Central European Journal of Operations Research, 2009, 17, (4), 479-494 View citations (1)
42. OPEC as a political and economical entity
    European Journal of Political Economy, 2009, 25, (4), 399-408 View citations (6)
43. Oligopoly meets oligopsony: The case of permits
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2009, 58, (3), 329-337 View citations (27)

2008

44. Abatement and Permits when Pollution is Uncertain and Violations are Fined
    Environmental & Resource Economics, 2008, 40, (2), 299-312 View citations (4)
45. Changing of the guards: New coaches in Austria’s premier football league
    Empirica, 2008, 35, (3), 267-278 View citations (12)
46. Energy conservation, expectations and uncertainty
    Energy Economics, 2008, 30, (4), 1957-1972 View citations (1)
47. Happiness due to Consumption and its Increases, Wealth and Status
    Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics, 2008, 12, (4), 34 View citations (1)
48. Optimal maintenance and scrapping versus the value of back ups
    Computational Management Science, 2008, 5, (4), 379-392
49. Resource extraction by cartels facing constraints on cooperation
    Resource and Energy Economics, 2008, 30, (3), 409-427
50. Reversible stopping (“switching”) implies super contact
    Computational Management Science, 2008, 5, (4), 393-401 View citations (2)
51. Tragedy of the Commons in a Stochastic Game of a Stock Externality
    Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2008, 10, (1), 99-124 View citations (9)
52. Why do oil prices jump (or fall)?
    Energy Policy, 2008, 36, (3), 1029-1043 View citations (21)

2007

53. Corrigendum to "Consequences of irreversibilities on optimal intertemporal CO2 emission policies under uncertainty" [Resour. Energy Econ. 28(2006) 105-123]
    Resource and Energy Economics, 2007, 29, (4), 325-326
54. Do multiple Nash equilibria in Markov strategies mitigate the tragedy of the commons?
    Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2007, 31, (11), 3723-3740 View citations (20)
55. Energy Prices and Carbon Taxes under Uncertainty about Global Warming
    Environmental & Resource Economics, 2007, 36, (3), 313-340 View citations (10)
56. Social Interactions within a Dynamic Competitive Economy
    Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 2007, 133, (3), 385-400 View citations (3)
57. The consequences of irreversibility on optimal intertemporal emission policies under uncertainty
    Central European Journal of Operations Research, 2007, 15, (2), 143-166 View citations (3)
58. Voluntary (environmental) standards
    Journal of Economics and Business, 2007, 59, (4), 275-285 View citations (1)

2006

59. Consequences of irreversibilities on optimal intertemporal CO2 emission policies under uncertainty
    Resource and Energy Economics, 2006, 28, (2), 105-123 View citations (14)
60. History versus expectations: Increasing returns or social influence?
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2006, 35, (5), 877-888 View citations (11)
61. Pollution thresholds under uncertainty
    Environment and Development Economics, 2006, 11, (4), 493-506 View citations (5)

2005

62. Entitling the Pollutee: Liability versus Standard under Private Information
    Environmental & Resource Economics, 2005, 30, (3), 287-311 View citations (1)
63. History dependence in concave economies
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2005, 57, (4), 390-407 View citations (26)
64. Spieltheoretische Ansätze in der Öffentlichen Wirtschaft
    ZögU - Zeitschrift für öffentliche und gemeinwirtschaftliche Unternehmen, 2005, 28, (3), 250-266
65. Voluntary internalisations facing the threat of a pollution tax
    Review of Economic Design, 2005, 9, (4), 337-362 View citations (2)

2004

66. Inter-Divisional Contracts
    International Journal of the Economics of Business, 2004, 11, (2), 197-216
67. International greenhouse gas emissions when global warming is a stochastic process
    Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, 2004, 20, (2), 95-114 View citations (1)
68. Investment under uncertainty: calculating the value function when the Bellman equation cannot be solved analytically
    Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2004, 28, (7), 1437-1460 View citations (25)
69. Multiple Equilibria and Thresholds Due to Relative Investment Costs
    Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 2004, 123, (1), 49-82 View citations (22)
70. Sustainable growth, renewable resources and pollution: Thresholds and cycles
    Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2004, 28, (6), 1149-1157 View citations (56)
71. The Impact of OPEC Conference Outcomes on World Oil Prices 1984-2001
    The Energy Journal, 2004, Volume 25, (Number 1), 45-62 View citations (39)
72. Thresholds in concave renewable resource models
    Ecological Economics, 2004, 48, (2), 259-267 View citations (13)

2003

73. Regulating Vertically Integrated Utilities When Transfers are Costly but Revenues are Beneficial
    Public Choice, 2003, 114, (1-2), 175-95 View citations (1)

2002

74. OPTIMAL LONG-RUN BUDGETARY POLICIES SUBJECT TO THE MAASTRICHT CRITERIA OR A STABILITY PACT
    Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2002, 6, (5), 665-686 View citations (1)
75. Stability and limit cycles in competitive equilibria subject to adjustment costs and dynamic spillovers
    Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2002, 26, (3), 375-398 View citations (6)

2001

76. The Dynamics of a Simple Relative Adjustment Cost Framework
    German Economic Review, 2001, 2, (3), 255-268 View citations (11)
    Also in German Economic Review, 2001, 2, (3), 255-268 (2001) View citations (8)
    See also Working Paper The dynamics of a simple relative adjustment-cost framework, Other publications TiSEM (2001) View citations (9) (2001)

2000

77. Complexities due to sluggish expansion of backstop technologies
    Journal of Economics, 2000, 72, (2), 153-174 View citations (9)
78. Instabilities in Concave, Dynamic, Economic Optimization
    Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 2000, 107, (2), 275-286 View citations (10)
79. Lessons from Utility Conservation Programs
    The Energy Journal, 2000, Volume21, (Number 1), 87-108 View citations (21)
80. Optimal accumulation of pollution: Existence of limit cycles for the social optimum and the competitive equilibrium
    Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2000, 24, (2), 297-306 View citations (5)

1999

81. Complex, dynamic environmental policies
    Resource and Energy Economics, 1999, 21, (1), 19-41 View citations (26)
82. Conservation Incentives for Consumers
    Journal of Regulatory Economics, 1999, 15, (1), 23-40 View citations (8)
83. De- and Reforestation: Stability, Instability and Limit Cycles
    Environmental & Resource Economics, 1999, 14, (4), 463-479
84. Dynamic externalities:Comparing conditions for Hopf bifurcationunder laissez‐faire and planning
    Annals of Operations Research, 1999, 89, 177-194
85. Endogenous growth of population and income depending on resource and knowledge
    European Journal of Population, 1999, 14, (4), 305-331
    Also in European Journal of Population, 1998, 14, (4), 305-331 (1998) View citations (1)
86. Paternalistic principals
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1999, 38, (4), 403-419 View citations (1)

1998

87. Analysis of United States' Utility Conservation Programs
    Review of Industrial Organization, 1998, 13, (4), 467-486 View citations (11)
88. Joint Implementation: Strategic Reactions and Possible Remedies
    Environmental & Resource Economics, 1998, 12, (2), 203-224 View citations (25)
89. Socio-economic typologies of bureaucratic corruption and implications
    Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 1998, 8, (2), 199-220 View citations (4)
90. The Polluter Pays versus the Pollutee Pays Principle under Asymmetric Information
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 1998, 35, (1), 69-87 View citations (7)

1997

91. Technological efficiency and the demand for energy (road transport)
    Energy Policy, 1997, 25, (14-15), 1129-1136 View citations (14)

1996

92. Can Leviathan Governments Mitigate the Tragedy of the Commons?
    Public Choice, 1996, 87, (3-4), 363-77 View citations (5)
93. Dynamic voluntary provision of public goods: Extension to nonlinear strategies
    European Journal of Political Economy, 1996, 12, (3), 555-560 View citations (38)
94. Optimal incentives to reduce transboundary emissions: Theory and empirical illustration to sulphur emissions in Austria and (former) Czechoslovakia
    Empirica, 1996, 23, (2), 149-172 View citations (7)
95. The Design of Optimal Conservation Programs by Electric Utilities Considering Strategic Consumer Behavior
    Management Science, 1996, 42, (3), 404-414 View citations (2)

1995

96. Impact of Regulation on Demand Side Conservation Programs
    Journal of Regulatory Economics, 1995, 7, (1), 43-62 View citations (12)
97. Leviathan governments and carbon taxes: Costs and potential benefits
    European Economic Review, 1995, 39, (6), 1215-1236 View citations (42)
98. Persistent Cyclical Consumption
    Rationality and Society, 1995, 7, (2), 156-166 View citations (4)
99. Strategic consumers' reactions to conservation incentives
    Utilities Policy, 1995, 5, (2), 109-113 View citations (3)
100. The Cyclical Exploitation of Renewable Resource Stocks May Be Optimal
     Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 1995, 29, (2), 252-261 View citations (31)
101. The exploitation of fossil fuels under the threat of global warming and carbon taxes: A dynamic game approach
     Environmental & Resource Economics, 1995, 5, (4), 333-352 View citations (43)

1994

102. A new route to cyclical strategies in two-dimensional optimal control models
     Ricerche Economiche, 1994, 48, (2), 165-173 View citations (4)
103. Efficient introduction of Pigovian taxes
     Environmental & Resource Economics, 1994, 4, (6), 535-544
104. Global warming and carbon taxes: Dynamic and strategic interactions between energy consumers and producers
     Journal of Policy Modeling, 1994, 16, (6), 577-596 View citations (6)
105. Is Sir Karl Raimund Popper a Precursor of Public Choice?
     Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 1994, 5, (2), 107-119
106. Limit cycles in intertemporal adjustment models: Theory and applications
     Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 1994, 18, (2), 353-380 View citations (47)
107. On the stability and potential cyclicity of corruption in governments subject to popularity constraints
     Mathematical Social Sciences, 1994, 28, (2), 113-131 View citations (10)
108. On the unprofitability of utility demand-side conservation programmes
     Energy Economics, 1994, 16, (1), 46-53 View citations (6)
109. Pigouvian Taxation of Energy for Flow and Stock Externalities and Strategic, Noncompetitive Energy Pricing
     Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 1994, 26, (1), 1-18 View citations (62)
110. The Dynamics of Lobbying--A Differential Game
     Public Choice, 1994, 80, (3-4), 307-23 View citations (23)
111. The ramsey model revisited: The optimality of cyclical consumption and growth
     Journal of Economics, 1994, 60, (1), 81-98 View citations (19)

1993

112. A Dynamic Variant of the Battle of the Sexes
     International Journal of Game Theory, 1993, 22, (4), 359-80 View citations (13)
113. Energy pricing when externalities are taxed
     Resource and Energy Economics, 1993, 15, (3), 255-270 View citations (5)
114. Irreversible Price-Induced Efficiency Improvements: Theory and Empirical Application to Road Transportation
     The Energy Journal, 1993, Volume14, (Number 4), 183-205 View citations (47)
115. Popper, Buchanan und die neue politische Íkonomie
     Homo Oeconomicus, 1993, 10, 203-218

1992

116. Impact on world oil prices when larger and fewer producers emerge from a political restructuring of the Middle East
     Energy, 1992, 17, (4), 367-375 View citations (1)
117. The problem of social costs revisited--the 'efficiency' of Laissez-Faire over Pigouvian interventions
     International Review of Economics & Finance, 1992, 1, (4), 295-303

1991

118. (Monopolistic) resource extraction and limit pricing: The market penetration of competitively produced synfuels
     Environmental & Resource Economics, 1991, 1, (2), 157-178 View citations (7)
119. Dynamic Demand, Consumers' Expectations and Monopolistic Resource Extraction: An Application to OPEC Pricing Policies
     Empirical Economics, 1991, 16, (4), 379-400 View citations (1)
120. Dynamic demand and noncompetitive pricing strategies
     Journal of Economics, 1991, 54, (3), 227-249 View citations (3)
121. Economics of (oil) price politics: Penalizing price changes
     Journal of Policy Modeling, 1991, 13, (4), 515-527 View citations (5)
122. Energy demand and consumer price expectations: An empirical investigation of the consequences from the recent oil price collapse
     Resources and Energy, 1991, 13, (3), 241-262 View citations (23)
123. Evaluation of management strategies under environmental constraints
     European Journal of Operational Research, 1991, 55, (2), 191-200 View citations (9)
124. Impact of the Political and Economic Restructuring in Eastern Europe on the Availability of Net Energy Exports--An Empirical Framework
     Economic Change and Restructuring, 1991, 24, (3), 181-202
125. Phasing of Deregulation: Normative versus Positive Objectives
     Journal of Regulatory Economics, 1991, 3, (1), 89-106 View citations (2)
126. Politico-economic cycles of regulation and deregulation
     European Journal of Political Economy, 1991, 7, (4), 469-485 View citations (2)
127. The Political Economics of Wackersdorf: Why Do Politicians Stick to Their Past Decisions?
     Public Choice, 1991, 70, (3), 343-50 View citations (5)

1990

128. Do Volatile Oil Prices and Consumer Adjustment Costs Justify An Additional Petroleum Tax?
     The Energy Journal, 1990, Volume 11, (Number 1), 147-150
129. Dynamic demand and optimal OPEC pricing: An empirical investigation
     Energy Economics, 1990, 12, (3), 174-176 View citations (6)
130. Dynamic policy games in economics: F. van der Ploeg and A.J. de Zeeuw, eds., (North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1989) pp. xviii+330, ISBN 0-444-87387-2, $92.00, Dfl 175.00
     European Journal of Political Economy, 1990, 6, (1), 143-146
131. Efficient tariffs to market district heat
     Energy, 1990, 15, (9), 773-779
132. Future World Oil Prices and Production Levels: A Comment
     The Energy Journal, 1990, Volume 11, (Number 3), 131-134
133. Optimal introduction of Time-of-Day tariffs in the presence of consumer adjustment costs
     Journal of Economics, 1990, 51, (3), 259-271
134. The future of world oil prices Smooth growth or volatility?
     Energy Policy, 1990, 18, (8), 756-763

1989

135. Energiesparen 1973-1985: Eine empirische Untersuchung für Österreich
     Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft - WuG, 1989, 15, (4), 585-593
136. Optimal capacity expansion of hydro power plants
     Energy Economics, 1989, 11, (2), 133-136 View citations (5)

1988

137. Resource extraction of imperfect substitutes
     Energy Economics, 1988, 10, (3), 242-248 View citations (6)
138. Volatile Oil Prices: Two Propositions from Economics and “Realpolitik”
     Natural Resources Forum, 1988, 12, (1), 91-94 View citations (1)

1987

139. Joint production of substitutable, exhaustible resources, or: Is flaring gas rational?
     Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 1987, 11, (4), 499-511 View citations (2)
140. Planning of production under environmental constraints
     Engineering Costs and Production Economics, 1987, 12, (1-4), 299-305 View citations (1)

1986

141. Fuel conservation under rational expectations of the energy price evolution
     Resources and Energy, 1986, 8, (2), 185-197 View citations (2)

1985

142. Optimal production of oil and gas
     Engineering Costs and Production Economics, 1985, 9, (1-3), 105-111 View citations (1)

Chapters

2018

1. (LNG) Arbitrage, Intertemporal Market Equilibrium and (Political) Uncertainty
   Springer

2016

2. Economics of Talent: Dynamics and Multiplicity of Equilibria
   Springer View citations (2)

2014

3. Uniqueness Versus Indeterminacy in the Tragedy of the Commons: A ‘Geometric’ Approach
   Springer