Ireland is (together with Greece and Portugal) a euro-zone country, which is receiving financial assistance. It is conditional on acceptance of recommendations of common experts groups of European commission, European central bank and International monetary fund. Macroeconomic stabilization...

The puzzle of Feldstein and Horioka (1980) stems from the early eighties: the authors identified the correlation between a country's savings-to-GDP and investment-to-GDP ratio as a measure of international capital mobility. By using a cross-section analysis they concluded that the long-awaited...

The Austrian agricultural sector is very heterogeneous in natural conditions and farming systems and highly vulnerable to climate change (e.g. alpine farming). The economic assessment of climate change impacts on and adaptation measures for agriculture requires an integrated modeling approach to...

This study aims to evaluate the results of a test of the access to interviews of young men of French and North African origin in order to highlight the possible existence and extent of discriminatory practices against persons of foreign origin (North African). We innovate by the fact that we...

Policy analysis with a dynamic CGE model requires a baseline solution that is a plausible forecast of the whole set of model's variables. An important issue in the development of the baseline forecast is to account for structural change. This is aided by the technique of historical simulations...

The notion of sectoral approaches – in which developing and emerging economies are incentivized to undertake efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions intensity or growth in key industrial sectors, potentially with assistance from developed countries – play an important role in the debate...

Health effects of medical expenditures deserve consideration in the literature addressing the dividends of environmental taxation, since illness not only influences utility, but also affects leisure and working time. We for the first time differentiate the health effects and tax deductibility...

In this paper, we develop a structural macro econometric model for Turkey, to assess the role of structural characteristics of an emerging economy on macroeconomic indicators. In this model, standard macroeconomic policy results are observed as the target levels and actual levels. Technically,...

The first part of our paper is devoted to a critical review of the main international agreements to reduce climate change and their implementation in the EU environmental policy. The EU has undoubtedly made a big effort in developing a progressive environmental policy, but many of its own...

Two theses are presented and discussed throughout the paper. First, the limits on public deficits with the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) do not correspond to the imposition of restrictive fiscal policies, but instead to the abandonment of an ultimate goal of economic policy: full employment....