This paper proposes a simple partial equilibrium model to investigate the effects of government policy on venture capital backed investments. Giving up an alternative career, entrepreneurs focus their effort on a single, high risk venture each. Venture capitalists acquire an equity stake and...

Eastern enlargement of the EU promises gains, but also imposes fiscal costs on incumbent countries. A sensitive issue concerns immigration, jobs and wages. We address these issues in a general equilibrium framework, both analytically and through numerical simulations. Analytical results identify...

The paper examines land use in an urban zone. We propose a partial equilibrium model of housing markets with both vacant and built up land. The existing literature assumes building decisions to be irreversible and treats any given stock of vacant land as an exhaustible resource. By way of...

Das erste Kapitel, geschrieben mit C.Keuschnigg, befasst sich mit Flexicurity und Arbeitslosigkeit. Wir bauen ein Modell wo die Arbeitslosigkeit in einem hoch innovativen, aber volatilen Sektor konzentriert ist. Optimales Politik nutzt die drei Teile von Flexicurity. Der Kapitel enthält...