This paper explores the outcome of an international environmental agreement when the governments are elected by their citizens. It also considers a voter's incentives for supporting candidates who are less green than she is. In the extreme case of 'global' pollution, the elected politicians pay...

Both the economic theory of federalism and international environmental economics are interested in finding conditions under which countries or groups of countries would like to start cooperation with other countries. In the framework of the standard public-good model this paper presents a...

Die gesetzliche Rentenversicherung und die Invaliditätsversicherung werden im vorliegenden Buch kritisch untersucht. In einem mikroökonomischen Modell werden die Konsum-, Spar- und Arbeitsentscheidungen der Mitglieder analysiert. U.a. wird der Feldstein-Hypothese nachgegangen, sowie eine...