Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Economy - Environment economics, grade: 1,7, University of Heidelberg (Alfred Weber Institut fur Wirtschaftswissenschaften), course: The Economics of Information Disclosure, language: English, abstract: This paper tries to analyze electricity markets from the point of view of standard microeconomic theory. The research paper focuses on the question what role information distribution and information disclosure play for the demand for green electricity products. In the first part of the paper there are several assumptions made about the...

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Economics - Micro-economics, grade: 1,0, University of Heidelberg (Alfred Weber Institut fur Wirtschaftswissenschaften), course: Empirical Political Economy, language: English, abstract: Recent political alarm signals make Lobbying as a research field highly relevant. The main objective is to challenge common approaches to model the mechanisms of how lobbyists gain political influence. I will explain what parameters or factors makes lobbyists more successful in their aim to influence political decision makers and what "channels" they use to do...