The thesis develops analytical tools able to shade light on the changing dynamics migration is experiencing and to evaluate how much confidence states should put on migration to deal with their demographic and fiscal challenges. The analysis, primarily based on Swiss data, is mainly divided in...

This volume was prepared by Julian Dieler while he was working with the Center for Energy, Climate and exhaustible Resources at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. At the latest since the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 climate policies are permanently on the international policy...