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Public Interest vs. Interest Groups: Allowance Allocation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme

Anger, Niels; Böhringer, Christoph; Oberndorfer, Ulrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

This paper presents a political-economy analysis of allowance allocation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). A common-agency model suggests that a politicalsupport maximizing government considers the preferences of sectoral interest groups besides public interest when allocating...

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Economic Development and CO2 Emissions: A Nonparametric Panel Approach

Azomahou, Théophile; Laisney, François; van Phu, Nguyen - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

We examine the empirical relation between CO2 emissions per capita and GDP per capita during the period 1960-1996, using a panel of 100 countries. Relying on the nonparametric poolability test of Baltagi et al. (1996), we find evidence of structural stability of the relationship. We then specify...

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What explains the decline in wage mobility in the German low-wage sector?

Aretz, Bodo; Gürtzgen, Nicole - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

In this paper, we study how wage mobility in the low-wage sector has changed in western Germany between 1984 and 2004. Using German individual register data, we document a clear upward trend in the persistence of low-wage employment for both men and women. Next to compositional shifts of the...

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Oil and Unemployment in Germany

Löschel, Andreas; Oberndorfer, Ulrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

In this paper, we analyze oil price impacts on unemployment for Germany. Firstly, we survey theoretical and empirical … literature on the oil-unemployment relationship and relate them to the German case. Secondly, we illustrate this issue within the … 1973 to 2008, we show that oil price increases induce a rise in unemployment in the German labor market. Moreover, for a …

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