compliance with government regulations and lowers tax collections. Our main hypothesis is that epidemics positively impacts the …

market goods R&D. When the government sets its policy before or simultaneously with the innovator's choice of licence fee … be able to expropriate innovations in new abatement technology ex post. This suggests that incentives for environmental R …&D may be lower than the incentives for market goods R&D. This in turn may be used as an argument for environmental R …

innovation market. If employment protection is introduced, firms' willingness to pay for product or process innovations increases …-ups. We calibrate our model to match aggregate US labor and product market statistics and show that our model generates the … innovations and firms. …

This paper discusses the reasons for the dismal labor market performance of Germany over the last three decades along … with potential remedies. It argues that labor market rigidities along with a generous welfare state in conjunction with …. Barriers to entrepreneurship, to setting up new firms and to innovations which are prevalent on goods and capital markets also …

, traditional and green interest groups and bureaucracies) that a shift towards an eco-social market economy is essential for … sustainable growth. Nevertheless, market-based instruments have not been implemented satisfactorily in environmental policy yet … players' behavior is analyzed in order to show that their incentives for implementing market-based instruments in …