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COMBATING CLIMATE CHANGE: Political economy of Green Paradoxes (GP)
Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2016,
"Green Paradoxes are defined as the phenomenon that climate change policies can have counterproductive effects. For example, a subsidy on clean energy from renewable resources (solar, wind) will decrease the price at which this energy is supplied. But if the price still exceeds the cost of fossil fuel extraction and given that available stocks will be depleted, the price decrease will speed up the ...
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Optimizing Policies for Transport: accounting for Industrial Organisation in Network markets (OPTION)
Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2015,
Traditional models of transport networks ignore the existence and strategic behaviour of large actors who are often active in transport markets. Examples of such large actors are private infrastructure or service operators, insurance companies, or vehicle manufacturers. Both for positive and normative analyses, this omission can lead to substantial errors, and therefore to seriously biased policy ...
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Effective evaluation of active labour market policies in social insurance programs - improving the interaction between econometric evaluation estimators and economic theory (ALMP_ECON)
Start date: Jul 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2013,
"In most European countries social insurance programs, like welfare, unemployment insurance and disability insurance are characterized by low reemployment rates. Therefore, governments spend huge amounts of money on active labour market programs, which should help individuals in finding work. Recent surveys indicate that programs which aim at intensifying job search behaviour are much more effecti ...
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