1. Refereed Journal // 2006

    Does the Representation of Household Behavior Matter for Welfare Analysis of Tax-Benefit Policies? An introduction

    further co-authors: Michal Myck, Javier Ruiz-Castillo and Frederic Vermeulen. A widely shared intuition holds that individual control over money matters for the decision process within the household and the…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 06-018 // 2006

    Efficiency Losses from Overlapping Economic Instruments in European Carbon Emissions Regulation

    Energy markets and energy-intensive industries in all EU member states – especially in Germany – are subject to a diverse set of policies related to climate change. We analyse the potential efficiency losses…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 06-013 // 2006

    Efficient Revenue Sharing and Upper Level Governments: Theory and Application to Germany

    Recent literature has emphasized that redistributive grant systems may tend to internalize fiscal externalities arising from tax competition. This paper further explores the conditions under which local grant…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 06-012 // 2006

    The Drivers of Deregulation in the Era of Globalization

    This paper treats the question to what extent globalization trends restrict a countryspecific regulation policy in industrial countries. The empirical analysis makes use of recently collected regulation…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 06-011 // 2006

    Deregulating Job Placement in Europe: A Microeconometric Evaluation of an Innovative Voucher Scheme in Germany

    Job placement vouchers can be regarded as a tool to spur competition between public and private job placement activities. The German government launched this instrument in order to end the public placement…