Holz als nachwachsender Rohstoff erfährt in den vergangenen Jahren zunehmend Beachtung. Kajetan Zwirglmaier untersucht die Ursachen saisonaler Preisschwankungen am Beispiel des deutschen Holzmarktes. Auf der Basis eines allgemeinen theoretischen Modells über die Entstehung saisonaler...

This paper provides estimates of the economic impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in China and India for the period 2012-2030. Our estimates are derived using WHO's EPIC model of economic growth, which focuses on the negative effects of NCDs on labor supply and capital accumulation. We...

In many countries, Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) establishes less strict dismissal procedures for specific groups of workers. This paper builds a simple matching model with heterogeneous workers in order to analyze this feature of EPL. We use the model to analyze the effects of reforms...