Homepage Stefan Boeters
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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.
- Linkage of the CGE model WorldScan with the energy system
model "TIMES-PEM" for climate policy analysis.
- Article on labour market modelling in a CGE context for the
"Handbook of CGE Modeling" (ed.: D. Jorgenson and P. Dixon).
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
Publications in journals
- Economic
Effects of VAT Reform in Germany,
with Christoph Böhringer, Thiess Büttner and Margit Kraus, Applied
Economics 42 (2010), 2165-2182.
- Comparison of top-down and bottom-up estimates of sectoral
and regional greenhouse gas emission reduction potentials, with D. P.
van Vuuren, M. Hoogwijk, T. Barker, K. Riahi, J. Chateau, S.
Scrieciu, J. van Vliet, T. Masui, K. Blok, E. Blomen and T.
Kram, Energy Policy 37 (2009), 5125-5139.
- Heterogeneous
Labour Markets in a Microsimulation-AGE Model: Application to Welfare
Reform in Germany, with Michael Feil, Computational
Economics 33 (2009), 305-335.
- 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
- A Labour Market
Extension for WorldScan: Modelling Labour Supply,
Wage Bargaining and Unemployment in a CGE framework, with
Nico van
Leeuwen, CPB Document 201.
- Skill
splits of labour input
values in GTAP, An approach
based on ILO and UBS data, with Nico van
Leeuwen, CPB
Memorandum 229.
- 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
Education
- 2000, PhD (Dr. rer. pol.) thesis on the labour
market effects of an 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, Computational Economics,
FinanzArchiv, International
Tax and Public Finance, Journal of Economics, Environmental and
Resource Economics, Resource and Energy Economics, Energy Economics,
Climate Policy.
- Research fellow at the Centre
for European
Economic Research (Mannheim).
