Deploying data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) we analyze the variability of individual earnings and equivalent household income. Permanent and transitory variances of male income over the period 1984-2008 are estimated for Old German Laender in order to determine their importance to...

· Theoretische Betrachtung von Versicherung durch Familie, Markt und Staat -- Historische Entwicklung wohlfahrtsstaatlicher Versicherung in Deutschland -- Versicherung und Umverteilung in Deutschland und Großbritannien -- Versicherung vs. Arbeitsanreize in Deutschland. .

We lay out an empirical and a theoretical model to analyze the effects of non-fundamental exchange rate volatility on economic activity and welfare. In the first part of the paper, the GARCH-SVARmodel is applied to measure empirically the effect of the conditional exogenous exchange rate...