Despite its efforts and obligations under the Kyoto Protocol, the EU has not succeeded in even making a dent in the rapidly rising trend of worldwide carbon dioxide emissions. If anything, the trend has accelerated in recent years. In his Thünen Lecture given to the German Economic Association...

Dieser Beitrag ist eine Replik auf die in den Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik geäußerte Kritik von Martin Hellwig an den Arbeiten von Clemens Fuest und Hans-Werner Sinn zur Targetproblematik. Er ist zugleich eine Replik auf Isabel Schnabel, die sich Hellwigs Analyse angeschlossen und sie...

We consider lifetime health insurance contracts in which ageing provisions are used to smooth the premium profile. The capital stock accumulated for each individual can be decomposed into two parts: a premium insurance and an annuitised life insurance, only the latter being transferable between...

The consequences of introducing or tightening time limits on receiving high unemployment benefits are studied in a shirking model. Stricter time limits have an ambiguous impact on the net wage, and changes of utility levels of employed workers and recipients of high unemployment benefits have...