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1. Economic growth and climate change : many trajectories, many destinations
abstractTo gain insights into the mechanisms that shape the interaction between economic growth and climate change, we analyze the simplified DICE through the lens of growth theory. We analytically show that this model exhibits a continuum of saddle-point stable steady states, a property that carries over to a large set of (analytical and numerical) IAMs. This novel insight is important because it implies initial conditions of stock variables, notoriously difficult to calibrate, matter for the ultimate steady state, i.e. for the long-run economic and climate outcomes. However, we also show that a lack of information about the stock of global capital is considerably less consequential than a lack of information about GHG in the atmosphere. These properties have important implications for understanding the consequences of delayed climate policy implementation and the optimal carbon tax. We employ numerical techniques to show how a postponement of optimal climate policy implementation leads to a higher long-run temperature. We also show that the SCC-to-GDP ratio is in fact largely constant, despite transitional dynamics. However, its level depends strongly on the point in time the policy is implemented. Finally, we employ the setup to better understand the consequences of stronger TFP growth for the climate.
Steger, Thomas M.; Trimborn, Timo;2024
Type: Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature; Arbeitspapier; Working Paper;
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Huszák, Loretta; Kauppinen, Antti; Saßmannshausen, Sean Patrick; Sobolieva, Tetiana; Steger, Thomas M.;2025
Type: Aufsatzsammlung; Beiträge
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3. Management and business ethics in Central and Eastern Europe : introduction to special issue
abstractThis special issue focuses on the developments in ethical standards in the post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) including the former Soviet Union. Over thirty years have elapsed since the demise of the Soviet Bloc and, despite some common institutional features, the societies have had very different experiences with uneven developments across the region since the collapse of communism. In this special issue, the authors explore business and management ethics situated within the context of the challenges that face these still transforming post-communist societies. The papers cover a range of issues and countries including Albania, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia. Potential further avenues for research are identified in the field of business ethics in post-communist societies.
Soulsby, Anna; Remišová, Anna; Steger, Thomas M.;2021
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Link 4. Das House Kapital
abstractThe housing wealth-to-income ratio has been increasing in most developed economies since the 1950s. We provide a novel theory to explain this long-term pattern. We show analytically that house prices grow in the steady state if i) the housing sector is more land-intensive than the non-housing sector, or ii) technological progress in the construction sector is weaker than in the non-housing sector. Despite growing house prices and housing wealth, the housing wealth-to income ratio is constant in steady state. We hence study the dynamics in the housing wealth-to- income ratio by computing transitions. The model is calibrated separately to the US, UK, France, and Germany. On average, we replicate 89 percent of the observed increase in the housing wealth-to-income ratio. The key for replicating the data is the differentiation between residential land as a non-reproducible factor and residential structure as reproducible factor. The transition process from the calibrated model points to two driving forces of an increasing housing wealth-to-income ratio: i) A long- lasting construction boom that brought about a pronounced build-up in the stock of structures and ii) an increase in the demand for residential land that resulted in surging residential land prices.
Grossmann, Volker; Larin, Benjamin; Steger, Thomas M.;2021
Type: Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature; Arbeitspapier; Working Paper;
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Link 5. No Price Like Home : Global House Prices, 1870-2012
abstractHow have house prices evolved over the long-run? This paper presents annual house prices for 14 advanced economies since 1870. Based on extensive data collection, we show that real house prices stayed constant from the 19th to the mid-20th century, but rose strongly during the second half of the 20th century. Land prices, not replacement costs, are the key to understanding the trajectory of house prices. Rising land prices explain about 80 percent of the global house price boom that has taken place since World War II. Higher land values have pushed up wealth-to-income ratios in recent decades
Knoll, Katharina; Schularick, Moritz; Steger, Thomas M.;2021
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6. History, Expectations, and Public Policy : Economic Development in Eastern Germany
abstractMotivated by the process of economic development in Eastern Germany since the German reunification we set up a dynamic macroeconomic model of a small open economy where both capital and labor are mobile and there are increasing returns to scale at the aggregate level. The model features multiple equilibria as well as (local and global) indeterminacy. Expectations matter for resulting equilibrium dynamics, implying that economic confidence may be crucial for the process of economic development. Despite its simplicity, the model can replicate major empirical facts and bears a number of non-trivial implications
Schäfer, Andreas; Steger, Thomas M.;2021
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7. Macroeconomic Consequences of Distributional Conflicts
abstractThis paper aims at better understanding the inefficiency due to distributional conflicts, which are inherent in every market economy. To this end, we set up a simple general equilibrium model with the following characteristics: two groups of agents (capitalists and workers), an endogenous income tax, productive government expenditures, social transfers, and an outside option for capital. The political mechanism employed in this paper accounts for the evidence showing that the degree of organization of major interest groups has an impact on political outcomes and, in addition, allows for strategic interaction among major interest groups. We decompose the overall inefficiency into three components: (i) a fundamental time inconsistency problem; (ii) strategic interaction in the political process; (iii) heterogeneity among individuals and the resulting unavoidable conflict of interest. A numerical exercise (based on OECD data) shows that the distributional-conflict inefficiency may cause a substantial output loss of about 7%
Schaefer, Andreas; Steger, Thomas M.;2021
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8. Anti-Competitive Conduct, In-House R&D, and Growth
abstractIncumbent firms have two basic possibilities to improve their competitive position in the product market: investment in R&D and the creation of entry barriers to the disadvantage of potential rivals, e.g. through lobbying activities, campaign contributions, bribes or the adoption of incompatible technologies. This paper proposes a simple oligopoly model which raises the possibility that such anti-competitive conduct and R&D investment are complementary activities for incumbents. Consequently, an institutional framework or technological possibilities which encourage anti-competitive conduct, although impeding entry of potential rivals and accentuating standard oligopoly distortions, may foster R&D-based growth and welfare. However, this outcome is less likely if entrants exert technological spillover effects, e.g. through foreign direct investment. Stronger protection of intellectual property rights, although triggering anti-competitive conduct and thereby impeding market entry as well, is more likely to foster economic growth
Grossmann, Volker; Steger, Thomas M.;2021
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9. The role of energy markets and expectations in dynamic general equilibrium models
abstractProjektion für den Klimawandel zeigen, dass die durchschnittliche globale Temperatur weiter sehr wahrscheinlich zunehmen wird. Die politischen Entscheidungsträger müssen geeignete Maßnahmen umsetzen. Diese Arbeit verwendet dynamische allgemeine Gleichgewichtsmodelle (DGE), um die möglichen wirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen der Minderungspolitik zu analysieren. Kapitel 2 dokumentiert die Prognoseleistung von geschätzten makroökonomischen Modellen und vergleicht sie mit erweiterten Versionen. Es stellt sich heraus, dass weder alternative Erwartungsbildungsverhalten noch finanzielle Friktionen systematisch die Prognoseleistung von makroökonomischen Modellen erhöhen. Kapitel 3 analysiert mögliche wirtschaftliche Folgen eines Kohleausstieg in Deutschland mit einem räumlich dynamischen allgemeinen Gleichgewichtsmodell. Ein Ausstieg bis 2035 ist nicht schlechter in Bezug auf die Wohlfahrt im Vergleich zu einem Ausstieg bis 2040. Kapitel 4 schätzt ein dynamisches stochastisches allgemeines Gleichgewichtsmodell mit riskantem Kapital und Öl als Produktionsfaktoren. Der Beitrag von Finanzmarktfriktionen und Schwankungen auf dem Ölmarkt an dem US-Konjunkturzyklus ist gering. Eine Ölsteuererhöhung, um den Rohölverbrauch um 10 % zu reduzieren, kann zu einer Kontraktion des BIP um 1 bis 2 % führen.
Schult, Christoph; Holtemöller, Oliver; Steger, Thomas M.;2021
Type: Hochschulschrift; Aufsatzsammlung; Beiträge
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Link Link Link Link 10. Distributional Effects of Surging Housing Costs Under Schwabe's Law
abstractThe upward sloping trend of rents and house prices has initiated a debate on the consequences of surging housing costs for wealth inequality and welfare. We employ a frictionless two-sectoral macroeconomic model with a housing sector to investigate the dynamics of wealth inequality and the determinants of welfare. Households have non-homothetic preferences, implying that the poor choose a higher housing expenditure share, which is compatible with Schwabe’s Law. We first examine the isolated effects of increasing housing costs in partial equilibrium. The model is closed by introducing a production sector that enables us to analyze the general equilibrium consequences of a widely discussed policy option, which aims at dampening the growth of housing costs. Abolishing zoning regulations triggers a slower rent growth and reduces wealth inequality by 0.7 percentage points (measured by the top 10 percent share). Average welfare increases by 0.5 percent. The household-specific welfare effects are asymmetric. The poor benefit more than the rich, and the richest wealth decile is even worse off
Grossmann, Volker; Larin, Benjamin; Löfflad, Hans Torben; Steger, Thomas M.;2019
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