In this thesis it is analyzed if promoting product market competition can help to to fight unemployment in Europe. We have used a general equilibrium model in order to study how reducing mark-ups and increasing productivity in one sector affect aggregate unemployment for an exogenously given...

The objective of this study is to provide monetary estimates of the impacts of climate change inEuropean agricultural sector. The future scenarios incorporate socio-economic projectionsderived from several socio-economic scenarios and experiments conducted using global climatemodels and regional...

The objective of this study is to provide a European assessment of the potential effects of climate change on agricultural crop production computing monetary estimates of these impacts for the European agricultural sector. The future scenarios incorporate socio economic projections derived from...

This study contributes to the understanding of behavioural responses to climate change induced extreme weatherevents. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affectedindividuals. The method is outlined using the empirical case of agricultural...