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	Name :	Stefan Boeters
	Sector:	International Economics
	Telephone :	+31 70 33 83 388
	Fax :	+31 70 33 83 350
	E-mail :	S.Boeters@cpb.nl

Activities

• Researcher in the sector "International Economics".
  
• Further development and application of the global general equilibrium model "WorldScan" and its energy/climate extension.

Current projects

• Evaluation of the EU climate policy strategy until 2020 with a special focus on the modelling of targets for renewable energy sources.

Previous projects

• MODELS: Model development for the evaluation of the EU Lisbon targets. Implementation of a labour market module for WorldScan with endogenous labour supply and unemployment.
• EU Competitiveness Report 2007: Assessment of the EU biofuel targets.
• IBO: Medium-term (post 2012) scenarios for climate policy.
• TAXBEN: Project for the European Commission to evaluate different aspects of the European public finance system. Focus of WP 5: optimal timing of climate policy, alternative post-Kyoto strategies, interaction of emission trading schemes with pre-existing energy taxes.

Fields of interest

• All aspects of computable general equilibrium (CGE) models.
• Labour market issues in relation to CGE: aggregation of heterogeneous households, macroeconomic aspects of wage negotiations.
• Numerical implementation of optimal taxation problems.
• Environmental economics: climate change, "double dividend", transportation.
• Linking partial and general equilibrium models.

Publications

Recent discussion papers

• Heterogeneous Labour Markets in a Microsimulation-AGE Model:  Application to Welfare Reform in Germany, with Michael Feil, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 08-043 (2008), Mannheim.
• Economic Effects of VAT Reform in Germany, with Christoph Böhringer, Thiess Büttner and Margit Kraus, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 06-030 (2006), Mannheim (forthcoming in Applied Economics).

Publications in journals

• Analysing Welfare Reform in a Microsimulation-AGE Model: The Value of Disaggregation, with Melanie Arntz, Nicole Gürtzgen and Stefanie Schubert, Economic Modelling 25 (2008), 422-439.
• Alternative Approaches to Discrete Working Time Choice in an AGE Framework, with Melanie Arntz and Nicole Gürtzgen, Economic Modelling 23 (2006), 1008-1023.
• Reforming Social Welfare in Germany – An Applied General Equilibrium Analysis, with Nicole Gürtzgen and Reinhold Schnabel, German Economic Review 7 (2006), 363-388.
• Discrete Working Time Choice in an Applied General Equilibrium Model, with Michael Feil and Nicole Gürtzgen, Computational Economics 26 (2005), 183-211.
• Taxation and Unemployment: An Applied General Equilibrium Approach for Germany, with Christoph Böhringer and Michael Feil, Economic Modelling 22 (2005), 81-108.
• Aggressive and Peaceful Behaviour in Contests – The Evolution of Strategies in a Dynamic Game, with Bettina Müller, RWI : Mitteilungen 54/55 (2003/2004), 195-215.
• Labour Market Effects of Progressive Taxes: The Role of  the Trade Union’s Fallback-Option, RWI : Mitteilungen 54/55 (2003/2004), 169-193.
• Green Tax Reform and Employment: The Interaction of Profit and Factor Taxes, FinanzArchiv 60 (2004), 222-239.
• Government versus Union. The Structure of Optimal Taxation in a Unionized Labor Market, with Kerstin Schneider, FinanzArchiv 56 (1999), 174-187.

Further publications

• Post-2012 Climate Policy Scenarios (2007), with Michiel G.J. den Elzen, Ton (A.J.G.) Manders, Paul J.J. Veenendaal and Gerard Verweij, MNP Report 500114006/2007, Bilthoven.
• Competitiveness Effects of Trading Emissions and Fostering Technologies to Meet the EU Kyoto Targets: A Quantitative Economic Assessment (2007), with Niels Anger, Paul Veenendaal, Victoria Alexeeva-Talebi,
  Nico van Leeuwen, Tim Mennel, Ulrich Oberndorfer and Hugo Rojas-Romagoza, Industrial Policy and Economic Reforms Papers No.4, DG ENTR.
• Efficient and Transitional Climate Policies -- A Combined Analysis Using PACE and WorldScan (2006), with Christoph Böhringer and Ulf Moslener, TAXBEN Deliverable 14.
• Post-2012 Climate Policies -- A Simulation Study with WorldScan (2006), with Gerard Verweij, TAXBEN Deliverable 23b.

Work experience

• 2005 - today, Researcher at the sector International Economics.
• 2001 - 2005, Researcher and senior researcher at the Centre for European Economic Research (Mannheim).
• 1999 - 2000, Research assistant at the University of Saarland (Saarbrücken).
• 1998 - 1999, Research assistant at the University of Dortmund.

Education

• 2000, PhD (Dr. rer. pol.) thesis on the labour market effects of a input factor tax reform.
• 1996 - 1998, Graduate program "Theory of allocation, economic policy and collective decisions" at the University of Dortmund.
• 1995, Masters (Diplom) in Economics, University of Marburg.
• 1990 - 1995, Studies in Economics, Sociology and Philosophy, University of Marburg.

Other activities

• Referee for Economic Modelling, FinanzArchiv, International Tax and Public Finance, Journal of Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, Resource and Energy Economics.