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The green paradox : a supply-side view of the climate problem

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2015

Why have policies aimed at reducing the demand for carbon not succeeded in slowing down global carbon extraction and CO2 emissions, and why have carbon prices failed to increase over the last three decades? This comment argues that this is because of the Green Paradox, i.e. - (the anticipation...

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The fossil episode

Hassler, John; Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2012 - This version: Dec 4, 2012

We build a two-sector dynamic general equilibrium model with one-sided substitutability between fossil carbon and biocarbon. One shock only, the discovery of the technology to use fossil fuels, leads to a transition from an initial pre-industrial phase to three following phases: a pure fossil...

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Why has the Euro been falling?

Sinn, Hans-Werner; Westermann, Frank - 2001

Europe and to variations in the demand for black money balances in Europe as a whole. We reject the view that the strength of …

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The minimum inflation rate for Euroland

Reutter, Michael; Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2000

extended Europe which incorporates the east European countries. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786718

Social union, convergence and migration

Sinn, Hans-Werner; Ochel, Wolfgang - 2003

The forces of the market and systems competition bring about economic and social convergence in Europe. There is no … economic convergence. National welfare states will be threatened by the free migration of people in Europe. The race to the … bottom is a serious risk. However, to contain this risk, neither harmonisation of welfare payments nor constraints on …

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EU enlargement, migration and the new constitution

Sinn, Hans-Werner (contributor) - 2004

Europe. Although migration is good in principle, as it yields gains from trade and specialization for all countries involved … state. This is not the present state of affairs in Western Europe. In addition to measures that make labour markets more …

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EU enlargement and the future of the welfare state

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2000

The eastern expansion of the EU resembles German unification in its mometousness. Whereas the latter led to a 26% increase in the population of the Federal Republic, the former will increase the population of the EU by 28% if all ten entry aspirants are accepted. A special problem will be posed...

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Seignorage wealth in the Eurosystem : eurowinners and eurolosers revisited

Sinn, Hans-Werner; Feist, Holger - 2000

The rules laid down in Article 32 of the Protocol No. 18 on the Statute of the European System of Central Banks and of the European Central Bank of the Maastricht Treaty will significantly redistribute European seignorage income and hence the implicit entitlement to the 352 billion stock of...

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EU enlargement, migration, and lessons from German unification

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 1999

unification and points out the lessons to be learned by Europe. The analysis concludes with a brief discussion of the second best …

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The effective rate of interest on target balances

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2019

While the formal decision of the ECB Council to impose interest on Target claims and liabilities is meaningless, this paper shows that the pooling of primary interest income among national central banks in the Eurozone implies that Target and cash balances do, in fact, bear an effective rate of...

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