Optimum currency area : currency area composition and exchange-rate regimes-theory and evidence reconciled -- Measuring the sacrifice ratio : some international evidence / with Kai Leitemo -- Regional labor market adjustment in Norway

Throughout the world, strong dispersions of both regional and national unemployment rates can be observed. The economic theory has developed various explanations on how this differences occur. Corresponding models mainly aim at institutional and political framework, insider effects, efficiency...

This paper aims to provide a frame of mind to understand the link between structural change and regional unemployment, and, based on it, to survey the most recent literature. An overly optimistic view on the ability of the adjustment mechanism to generate convergence in local unemployment rates...

Umwelt-, Energie- und Klimapolitik haben in jüngerer Zeit einen immer höheren Stellenwert erhalten. Dies ist nicht zuletzt den neuesten klimatologischen Forschungsergebnissen und dem daraus entstandenen gesteigerten Umweltbewusstsein in der Bevölkerung geschuldet. Politikansätze zur...