1. Discussion and Working Paper // 2009

    Macroeconomic of populism in Iran

    This paper uses the Dornbusch and Edwards (1990) analytical framework to investigate the macroeconomic populism in Iran under the Ahmadinejad government. My thesis endeavours to place the government of…

  2. Discussion and Working Paper // 2009

    The cost of climate change in the German fruit sector

    This paper applies the concept of damage coefficients introduced in Houba and Kremers (2008) to provide an estimate of the cost of climate change - in particular the cost of changes in mean regional…

  3. Discussion and Working Paper // 2009

    Environmental damage and price taking behaviour by firms and consumer

    Integrated assessment models lack a microeconomic foundation in modelling environmental damages to the economy. To overcome this, damage coefficients are incorporated in standard microeconomic models. Firms…

  4. Discussion and Working Paper // 2009

    Zeitpräferenzen von Kindern im Vorschulalter: Eine experimentelle Untersuchung im Rahmen des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP)

    In dieser Arbeit werden anhand einer spezifischen Datenerhebung im Rahmen des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) mögliche Determinanten des Belohnungsaufschubs im Alter von fünf bis sechs Jahren untersucht (im…