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Paul J. J. Welfens
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Open AccessGaspreisdeckel, Strommarkt und Makroeffekte in Deutschland und der EU
Die Politik in Deutschland und vielen anderen EU-Ländern hat seit Spätsommer 2022 zunehmend die Option einer Gaspreisbremse und von Transferzahlungen an private Haushalte bei Gas-, Wärme- und Strombezug diskut...
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Open AccessOECD countries’ twin long-run challenge: The impact of aging dynamics and increasing natural disasters on savings ratios
There has been a long-standing debate over the development of savings rates in developed economies, and an emphasis has been placed on aging societies and a global savings glut. Meanwhile, with rising global t...
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Open AccessGas price caps and electricity production effects in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian War: modeling and new policy reforms
The merit-order approach in the electricity market, which is in widespread use across the EU27 and the UK, has proven to be somewhat economically problematic in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian War. The mass...
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Open AccessSpecial issue of the journal international economics and economic policy: international economics, climate policy innovations and economic policy (IEEP, issue 2)
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Open AccessThe macroeconomic effects of import tariffs in a model with multinational firms and foreign direct investment
Recent (de-)globalization tendencies and rising protectionist measures has created new interest in studying the effects of unilateral and world-wide tariffs. This paper contributes to this issue by taking into...
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Climate Protection Policy: 2019 Special Report of the German Council of Economic Experts
The 2019 special report of the German Council of Economic Experts is presented and discussed, including the various starting points which the Council identified in its own argumentation. It is also emphasized ...
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The West and Russia: Frozen Relations Between the UK and Russia for Decades
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the disintegration of the Warsaw Pact in 1991, the West and Russia have had three decades to develop a common security architecture in Europe, which of course would h...
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Macroeconomic Aspects of CO2 Pricing
The effects of pricing CO2 emissions on growth, employment and income distribution can be studied in intertemporal equilibrium models. In principle, CO2 prices increase the (marginal) costs for firms. To the exte...
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A Russian Energy Import Boycott by Germany or the EU as a Policy Option?
In a study published in March 2022, several scientists examined how a possible boycott of Russia’s energy imports by Germany would affect the German economy (Bachmann et al., 2022)—according to their findings,...
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Der Westen und Russland – Beziehungsstille zwischen Großbritannien und Russland über Jahrzehnte
Seit dem Zusammenbruch der Sowjetunion und des Zerfalls des Warschauer Paktes 1991 hatten der Westen und Russland drei Jahrzehnte Zeit, in Europa eine gemeinsame Sicherheitsarchitektur zu entwickeln, wobei nat...
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The Housing and Transport Sectors
It is clear that without new approaches and better efficiency in terms of CO2 reduction, the targets that have been established internationally are hardly achievable and, moreover, the cost burden—for example, wi...
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Asia and the Global Effects of an EU Energy Import Boycott of Russia
The economic effects of an EU energy import boycott are analyzed in a special way, namely what the effects of oil and gas are on the respective world and regional markets and to what extent this EU measure is ...
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Russland-Energieimport-Boykott durch Deutschland und die EU als Politikoption?
Seitens mehrerer Wissenschaftler ist in einer Studie vom März 2022 untersucht worden, wie sich ein denkbarer Russland-Energieimport-Boykott durch Deutschland auf die Wirtschaft in Deutschland auswirken werde (...
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Climate Policy Problems: The Concept of a Sustainable Social Market Economy
The transition of economic systems toward production and consumption with very low CO2 emissions is a major challenge. This transition needs to be accomplished after two centuries of industrialization which conti...
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Ukrainian Refugees and Ukrainian Guest Workers in EU Countries and Their Effects on Ukraine and the EU
The number of Ukrainian refugees, which had reached over five million by June 2022 in EU countries, is high and distributed relatively unevenly among EU countries. Poland and some other Eastern European EU cou...
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The Wrong Climate Debate?
There is a sometimes very lively, emotional debate in the public sphere about global warming issues and climate policy. As part of this process, some groups are still arguing primarily over questions of fact. ...
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Asien- und Global-Effekte eines EU-Energieimport-Boykotts gegen Russland
Falls sich Deutschland – oder die EU27 – zu einem umfassenden Energieimport- Boykott gegen Russland entscheiden sollte, wäre das ein historisch ziemlich einmaliger Fall von Wirtschaftskrieg, der die internatio...
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Mobility Policy
Transport accounts for about 10–15 percent of CO2 emissions in many countries. In many EU countries, rail transport is considered to be environmentally friendly; in fact, rail transport does indeed have a strateg...
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Ukraine-Flüchtlinge und ukrainische Gastarbeiter in EU-Ländern sowie Effekte für die Ukraine und die Europäische Union
Bis Ende Juni 2022 kann man von gut drei Millionen Ukraine-Flüchtlingen in Polen und etwa 700 000 Ukraine-Flüchtlingen in Deutschland ausgehen. Die Zahl der Ukrainer:innen in Polen erreichte damit fast 10% der...
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Szenario-Perspektiven
Es ist schwierig, eine klare Entwicklung des weiteren Kriegsverlaufes in der Ukraine abzusehen. Die Kriegsziele Russlands sind relativ unklar; nicht ausgeschlossen ist, dass Russland der Ukraine den Weg zum Sc...
