This issue note focusses on distributional consequences of energy sector reform at the household level with a strong focus on energy taxation. Taxation of energy is a prominent instrument in environmental…
The innovation indicator captures the conditions for innovation at the business location Germany and compares these with the worldwide leading industrial states. The innovation performance is captured and…
European countries are currently faced with a variety of challenges, ranging from the new global distribution of economic activity, the diffusion of new, radical technologies to the aging of its population,…
We ask whether sectoral shocks and the subsequent labor reallocation are responsible for unemployment within selected European economies. Our measure of sectoral labor reallocation is adjusted for aggregate…
The literature on treatment effects focuses on gross benefits from program participation. We extend this literature by developing conditions under which it is possible to identify parameters measuring the cost…
We compare the performance of maximum likelihood (ML) and simulated method of moments (SMM) estimation for dynamic discrete choice models. We construct and estimate a simplified dynamic structural model of…
