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Implementing CDM Limits in the EU ETS: A Law and Economics Approach

Vasa, Alexander - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

-governmental institutions according to their efficiency and environmental effectiveness. The debate about wind-fall profits has shown that …

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Green, Brown, and Now White Certificates: Are Three One Too Many? A Micromodel of Market Interaction

Meran, Georg; Wittmann, Nadine - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

Our paper deals with modeling the effects of introducing a market-based tool for improving end-users' efficiency in an … energy demand achieves its underlying objects of energy savings and energy efficiency solely at the expense of other goals … such as the environmental efficiency of energy production. In our model, the implementation of a market for White …

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Turning Unemployment into Self-Employment: Effectiveness and Efficiency of Two Start-Up Programmes

Baumgartner, Hans J.; Caliendo, Marco - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

, based on the results of this analysis, we conduct an efficiency analysis, i.e., we estimate whether the Federal Employment …

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Potential Gains from Mergers in Local Public Transport: An Efficiency Analysis Applied to Germany

Walter, Matthias; Cullmann, Astrid - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

that operate partially on a joint tram network. Merger gains are then decomposed into individual technical efficiency …

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Does Government Ideology Matter in Monetary Policy?: A Panel Data Analysis for OECD Countries

Belke, Ansgar; Potrafke, Niklas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

This paper examines whether government ideology has influenced monetary policy in OECD countries. We use quarterly data in the 1980.1-2005.4 period and exclude EMU countries. Our Taylor-rule specification focuses on the interactions of a new time-variant index of central bank independence with...

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Monetary Commitment and Structural Reforms: A Dynamic Panel Analysis for Transition Economies

Belke, Ansgar; Vogel, Lukas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

This paper examines the contemporaneous relationship between the exchange rate regime and structural economic reforms for a sample of CEEC/CIS transition countries. We investigate empirically whether structural reforms are complements or substitutes for monetary commitment in the attempt to...

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Savings in Central Eastern Europe

Schrooten, Mechthild; Stephan, Sabine - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2001

The paper seeks to add to the existing literature on aggregate and private savings by focusing on transition economies. We use panel data over the period 1989-1998 and estimate a fixed-effects model. In Central Eastern European Countries, aggregate and private savings are driven by almost the...

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Smoothed Income Poverty in European Countries

Kuchler, Birgit; Goebel, Jan - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

The purpose of this paper is to obtain by combining two longitudinal perspectives a more detailed national picture of poverty in the Member States of the European Union, using the _rst four waves (1994 - 1997) of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). In addition to this detailed...

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Macroeconomic Uncertainty and Firm Leverage

Baum, Christopher F.; Stephan, Andreas; Talavera, Oleksandr - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

This paper investigates the link between the optimal level of nonfinancial firms' leverage and macroeconomic uncertainty. We develop a structural model of a firm's value maximization problem that predicts that as macroeconomic un-certainty increases the firm will decrease its optimal level of...

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Intertemporal Labor Supply Effects of Tax Reforms

Haan, Peter - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

In the year 2000, the German government passed the most ambitious tax reform in post-war German history aiming at a significant tax relief for households. One central aim of this tax reform was to improve work incentives and, thereby, foster employment. In this paper, I estimate an intertemporal...

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