In 2005 the German government implemented the so-called Hartz IV reform, which amounted to a complete overhaul of the German unemployment insurance system and resulted in a significant reduction in unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed. In this paper, we use an incomplete-market...

In this essay, I outline a method to compute the economic impact of a sudden stop of natural gas imports from Russia. First, I estimate the reduction in the short-run supply of natural gas for the economy and the industry sector. Second, I use model simulations to analyse the effect of a sudden...

Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die Auswirkungen eines sofortigen Lieferstopps russischen Erdgases auf die gesamtwirtschaftliche Produktion in Deutschland. Dieser Lieferstopp kann entweder die Folge eines Importembargos der Europäischen Union oder einer Entscheidung Russlands (Exportembargo)...