According to a widely held popular belief, a pure increase in tax progression decreases work effort, increases wages and is thus bad for employment under competitive labour markets. This paper studies the effects of labour taxes in a general equilibrium model of two countries with monopoly...

This article presents an electricity dispatch model with endogenous electricity generation capacity expansion for Germany over the horizon 2010-2035. The target is to quantify how fuel and carbon price risk impacts investment incentives of thermal power plants. Results point to findings which...