EU Member States increase deployment of intermittent renewable energy sources to deliver the 20% renewable target formulated in the European Renewables Directive of 2008. To incorporate these intermittent sources, a power market needs to be flexible enough to accommodate short-term forecasts and...

The Trump administration has promised to stop the spiraling down of the U.S. coal industry that has been going on for several years. We discuss the origins of the decline of the U.S. coal industry and new policy interventions by the Trump administration. We find that a further decrease of coal...

Seit Anfang der 90er Jahre nimmt in der Bundesrepublik die Arbeitslosigkeit trotz fallender Lohnquote kontinuierlich zu. Haben wir die keynesianische Situation einer mangelnden Nachfrage auf den Gütermärkten? Kann die Arbeitslosigkeit durch eine expansivere Lohnpolitik abgebaut werden?