Adaptation to climate change is gaining increasing relevance in the public debate of climate policy. However, detailed … adaptation in Europe, and in particular Germany, Finland and Italy. Furthermore, a systematic overview on fiscal aspects of … adaptation is provided, with focus on budgetary effects of adaptation in the different impact sectors. Combining cost estimates …

adaptation to changing life circumstances. People may adapt or become more sensitive, to different degrees, to a deteriorated … the consequences for optimal climate policies and argues from a normative point of view that psychological adaptation …

This paper assesses the role of the public sector in adaptation to climate change. We first offer a definition and … categorisation of climate change adaptation. We then consider the primary economic principles that can guide the assignment of … adaptation tasks to either the private or the public sector, as well as those guiding assignment within the public sector itself …

widely unknown. Governments try to cope with these risks by investing in mitigation and adaptation measures. Mitigation aims … at a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions whereas adaptation reduces the follow-up costs of climate change. In contrast … to the existing literature, we explicitly model the decision of risk-averse governments on mitigation and adaptation …

adaptation to changing life circumstances. People may adapt or become more sensitive, to different degrees, to a deteriorated … the consequences for optimal climate policies and argues from a normative point of view that psychological adaptation …

. Workers accumulate general human capital through learning-by-doing. With on-the-job search, a worker’s wage evolves … endogenously over time through experience effects, tenure effects and quits to better paid employment. This equilibrium approach … suggests how to identify econometrically between experience and tenure effects on worker wages. …

Using a rich data set on the EU regions, we analyze the relevance of two possible determinants of a region’s resilience … that started in 2008, as our shock and then analyze how the NUTS II EU regions differ in their resilience to the crisis in … their resilience to shocks but it typically remains unclear as to why regions differ in this respect. For the 2008- 2012 …

looks at how it recently shifted into a modification of the original concept of adaptation. Using theoretical research in …