Der Artikel zeigt in den grundlegenden Zügen die Entwicklung in Ostdeutschland seit dem Beginn der Umstrukturierung auf und zieht eine Bilanz zum Stand des Anpassungsprozesses 20 Jahre nach dem Mauerfall. Wie sich an der Entwicklung der Wirtschaftsleistung zeigen lässt, ist der wirtschaftliche...

This paper investigates the sustainability of the German economy when reaching the Kyoto emissions reduction target. We use a special intergenerational discounting technique which actually takes into account intergenerational peculiarities in an overlapping generations modeling framework which...

The idea of higher wealth taxes to finance the mounting public debt in the wake of the financial crises is gaining ground in several OECD countries. We evaluate the revenue and distributional effects of a one-time capital levy on personal net wealth that is currently on the German political...

We study the strategic utilization of storage in imperfect electricity markets. We apply a game-theoretic Cournot model to the German power market and analyze different counterfactual and realistic cases of pumped hydro storage. Our main finding is that both storage utilization and...

Nowadays, a process can be observed in Germany where electricity producing and trading firms react to the electricity market liberalisation by merging market shares, since the year 2000, which reduces the number of suppliers and influences production and consumer prices. This paper discusses...