In regressions for net immigration flows of developing countries we show that (i) savings finance emigration and worker remittances serve to make staying rather than migrating possible until a...
Collinearity in growth regressions: the example of worker remittances (2009)
The sign of worker remittances in growth regressions is heavily disputed in the literature. Comparing two growth regressions with different signs for the remittance variable we show that collinearity...
Immigration can alleviate the ageing problem (2008)
Muysken, Joan, Corvers, Frank, Ziesemer, Thomas
This paper analyses the way immigration can help to alleviate the burden ageing presents for the welfare states of most Western Economies. We develop a macroeconomic framework which deals with the...
Worker remittances and government behaviour in the receiving countries (2008)
We estimate the impact of worker remittances on savings, taxes, and public expenditures on education, all as a share of GDP, for about thirty years in two samples of countries with per capita income...
We show empirically that aid given to poor developing countries enhances growth and reduces emigration once several dynamically interacting effects of aid are taken into account in a system of...
Export demand elasticities as determinants of growth : estimates for Mauritius (2008)
Habiyaremye, Alexis, Ziesemer, Thomas
In this paper, we combine the export-led and import-led growth hypotheses in a growth model in which the importation of foreign capital goods and the demand elasticities of own export products...
Estimations of US debt dynamics: growth cum debt and the savings glut in Kouri's model (2007)
We derive the central differential equation of the neoclassical growth model for the case of a CES (constant elasticity of substitution) production function with perfect capital movement in terms of...
The environmental Porter Hypothesis : theory, evidence and a model of timing of adoption (2007)
Kriechel, Ben, Ziesemer, Thomas
The Porter Hypothesis postulates that the costs of compliance with environmental standards may be offset by adoption of innovations they trigger. We model this hypothesis using a game of timing of...
Absorptive capacity and export diversification in Sub-Saharan African countries (2006)
Habiyaremye, Alexis, Ziesemer, Thomas
This paper examines the extent to which dependence on primary commodities in Sub-Saharan African(SSA) countries can be explained by low levels of absorptive capacity (the ability to acquire,...
Worker remittances and growth: the physical and human capital channels (2006)
Remittances may have an impact on economic growth through channels to physical and human capital. We estimate two variants of an open economy model of these two channels consisting of seven equations...
Taxation and technology adoption: a hotelling approach (2006)
Kriechel, Ben, Ziesemer, Thomas
Environmental regulation and competitiveness are issues that seem to be at odds. However, the `Porter Hypothesis' states that firms can actually gain in competitiveness if they are subject to...
We analyze empirically for Brazil a hypothesis by Stiglitz (2002) saying that devaluations may be more effective in reducing trade deficits than cuts in budget deficits. We find that the Ricardian...
Unstable debt/GDP dynamics as an early warning indicator (2005)
In this paper we develop a simple neoclassical growth model with perfect international capital mobility to analyze the stability of the differential equation in the foreign debt/GDP dynamics of...
The environmental Porter hypothesis as a technology adoption problem? (2003)
Kriechel, Ben, Ziesemer, Thomas
The Porter Hypothesis postulates that the costs of compliance with environmental standards may be partially or even fully offset by adoption of innovations they trigger. The timing of the adoption...
Green tax reform and the Laffer curve in labour market models: A brief note (2003)
This paper shows that the dividing lines between the three possible outcome of a revenue- neutral ecological tax reform - double dividend, employment failure, environmental failure - can be ordered...
Sovereign risk and simple debt dynamics in Asia (2003)
Holle, Stephanie, Kool, Clemens, Haselmann , Rainer, Ziesemer, Thomas
In this paper we develop a simple neoclassical growth model with perfect international capital mobility to analyze the international debt dynamics of developing countries in general and Korea,...
Sovereign risk and simple debt dynamics: the case of Brazil and Argentina (2002)
Ziesemer, Thomas, Haselmann, Rainer, Kool, Clemens, Holle, Stephanie
In this paper we develop a simple neoclassical growth model with perfect international capital mobility to analyze the international debt dynamics of developing countries in general and Brazil and...
In this paper we integrate two workhorse models in economics: The monopolistic competition model of Dixit and Stiglitz and the search unemployment model of Pissarides. Information and communication...
Monopolistic competition, search unemployment, and macroeconomics (2002)
The monopolistic competition model of Dixit and Stiglitz for the goods market and the search unemployment model of Pissarides are combined The Pissarides part looses its Walrasian goods market and...
Green Tax Reform, marginal revenue of wage income taxes, and the wage curve: A brief note (2002)
Schneider (1997) showed that the success of a green tax reform depends crucially on a small slope of the wage curve of an efficiency wage model in which production occurs using a second factor E,...
Contract prolongation in innovation production as a principal-agent problem with moral hazard (2001)
We consider the problem between an employer and a research employee who has not finished a research project in time because of a lack of an innovative idea. The research project yields money in case...
In this paper we integrate two workhorse models in economics: The monopolistic competition model of Dixit and Stiglitz and the search unemployment model of Pissarides. Information and communication...
Monopolistic competition and search unemployment: a Pissarides-Dixit-Stiglitz model (2001)
We integrate two workhorse models in economics: The monopolistic competition model of Dixit and Stiglitz and the search unemployment model of Pissarides. Many results of the original models survive....
Politicians understand that a conventional double dividend policy - defined asreduction of greenhouse gas emissions and unemployment through taxation of energy and CO2emissions and subsidization of...
Health, labour productivity and growth (1999)
Muysken, Joan, Ziesemer, Thomas, Yetkiner, I. Hakan
Under the standard neo-classical growth framework, conditional convergence studies assume that a country with a higher initial human capital among others 'performs' better. Nevertheless the growth...
Some aspects of growth in the Netherlands 1970-1998: an international comparison (1999)
Hollanders, Hugo, Ziesemer, Thomas
This paper presents some information on issues that have some importance for those who try to learn from the economic policy of the Netherlands. In particular we discuss the following questions. i)...
The cost-minimization part of a specific factors model with perfect capital movements and production externalities for both perfect and imperfect competition is used here to explain the growth rate...
In this paper we show conditions under which the accumulation of public infrastructure capital over time may create the comparative advantage of the production of transport services and destroy that...
The cost-minimization part of a specific factors model with perfect capital movements and both perfect and imperfect competition is used here to explain the growth rate of wages as a function of...
We argue that a conventional double dividend policy - defined as reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and unemployment through taxation of energy and CO2 emissions and subsidization of wage costs -...
Strategic Environmental Policy and the Accumulation of Knowledge
Thomas Ziesemer, Peter Michaelis
Recent political discussions about the possible advantages of first-mover behaviour in terms of environmental policy again called attention to the well-established controversy about the effects of...
Policy Diffusion, Lobbying and the Taxation of Emissions
Peter Michaelis, Thomas Ziesemer
Policy diffusion refers to the process by which a political innovation – like the introduction of a novel emission tax – disseminates over time among countries. In order to analyze this issue...
The Porter Hypothesis Revisited - An Overview on Empirical and Theoretical Evidence
By presenting a comprehensive introduction to the Porter Hypothesis this paper is meant to lay the foundation for future work on the hypothesis’ controversial assertions. Beginning with a...
Information and Communication Technology as Technical Change in Matching and Production
ICT, monopolistic competition, unemployment, O33, E13, E24,
In regressions for net immigration flows of developing countries we show that (i) savings finance emigration and worker remittances serve to make staying rather than migrating possible until a...
Collinearity in growth regressions: The example of worker remittances
The sign of worker remittances in growth regressions is heavily disputed in the literature. Comparing two growth regressions with different signs for the remittance variable we show that collinearity...
The credit crisis of OECD countries has a negative impact on the growth of the world economy according to a simple error correction model. This causes negative growth effects in poor developing...
Growth with imported resources: On the sustainability of U.S. growth and foreign debt
We provide a growth model with imported resources and foreign debt accumulation providing the basis for two questions and regression equations. 1) Under what conditions do growth rates of per capita...
The environmental Porter hypothesis: theory, evidence, and a model of timing of adoption
The Porter hypothesis postulates that the costs of compliance with environmental standards may be offset by adoption of innovations they trigger. We model this hypothesis using a game of timing of...
We show that the credit crisis of OECD countries has a negative impact on the growth of the world economy according to an error correction model including China and Australia. This causes negative...
Optimale produktionssubventionen, wachstum und strukturwandel in einer technologisch geteilten welt.
Health, labour productivity and growth.
Muysken, Joan, Yetkiner, I,Hakan, Ziesemer, Thomas