This paper analyses the macroeconomic costs of environmental regulation in European energy markets on the basis of …. From a macroeconomic point of view, however, the costs of environmental regulation appear to be modest. The underlying …

-out regulations affect both the magnitude of total economic costs and the distribution of these costs across nuclear power plants and … competing companies. Based on a dynamic partial equilibrium analysis of power supply options, we quantify the excess costs of … ultimate shutdown of nuclear power generation exhibit large differences in total costs. The competitive distortions across …

In 1997, the German government enacted a reform of the unemployment insurance system which lead to a reduction of the … maximum entitlement length for unemployment benefits. The paper analyses the effects of this reform on the risk of … the unemployment benefits scheme. We show that the reform effectively reduced the amount of early retirement at the …

We estimate the effects of the reform of the German Unemployment Insurance that replaced the wage related Unemployment … impact of the reform. …

of labor market reform on unemployment, growth, and welfare. The model has a large number of risk-averse households who … macroeconomic effects of the German labor market reforms of 2005 and 2006 (Hartz Reforms). We find that the 2005-reform had large … 2006-reform are qualitatively similar, but quantitatively much smaller. We also show that the social welfare maximizing …

allowing for third-country effects. When the workhorse two-country model is enlarged to include a third country, a reform … considerably. Differences in the reform spillover effects between foreign countries are mainly due to differences in …