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In this paper, we analyze oil price impacts on unemployment for Germany. Firstly, we survey theoretical and empirical … literature on the oil-unemployment relationship and relate them to the German case. Secondly, we illustrate this issue within the … framework of a vector autoregression (VAR) approach for Germany. For this purpose, we use three different specifications in …
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considered an adequate policy to reduce unemployment. From the perspective of economic theory the outcome is in general ambiguous … in Germany on the basis of a CGE model using an input-output framework for all sectors of the economy. Our simulation …
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Computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling has provided a number of important insights about the interplay between environmental tax policy and the pre-existing tax system. In this paper, we emphasize that a labor market policy of recycling tax revenues from an environmental tax to lower...
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manufacturing firms in Germany. Our difference-in-differences framework relies on several parametric conditioning strategies and …
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Increasing energy efficiency is one of the main goals in current German energy and climate policies. We study the determinants of energy efficiency in the German manufacturing sector based on official firm-level production census data. By means of a stochastic frontier analysis, we estimate the...
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We analyze the drivers and barriers that influence investments increasing the energy efficiency of firms' production processes or buildings in the German manufacturing sector based on microdata. In particular, we shed light on the relationship between financial barriers (e. g. credit...
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Germany has committed itself to reducing its carbon emissions by 25 percent in 2005 as compared to 1990 emission levels … double dividend, reducing both, the problem of global warming and high unemployment rates. In addition to domestic actions … reduction possibilities elsewhere. One concrete option for Germany would be to enter joint implementation with developing …
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experiment with a sample of the residential population in Mannheim, Germany. Participants were endowed with € 40 and given the …
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This paper deals with designing emissions trading in practice. After a short introduction to the general idea of emissions trading, practical requirements for the introduction of an emissions trading scheme are considered, including the temporal and spatial dimension as well as administrative...
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the private demand for climate protection in Germany. Data are taken from two framed field experiments (Löschel et al …
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