Ongoing research includes theoretical work related to public
deficits and debt, budgetary rules and potential problems emerging for monetary
policy. The inclusion of public sectors into DSGE models is also an issue
as well as the financing scheme of social security systems.
Selected Publications and Working Papers
Stähler, N. (2009), Taxing deficits to restrain
government spending. Journal of Public Economic Theory 11(1), 159-176.
Moyen, S. and N. Stähler (2009), Unemployment
insurance and the business cycle: Prolong benefit entitlements in bad times?,
Bundesbank Discussion Paper, Series 1, No. 30/2009.
Mayer, E. and N. Stähler (2009), The debt brake:
Business cycle and welfare consequences of Germany’s new fiscal policy
rule, Bundesbank Discussion Paper, Series 1, No. 24/2009.
Moser, C. and N. Stähler (2009), Spillover effects
of minimum wages in a two sector search economy, Bundesbank Discussion Paper,
Series 1, No. 01/2009.
Stähler, N. (2008), Unemployment and employment
protection in a unionized economy with search frictions, Labour 22(2), 271-289.
Stähler, N. (2008), Firing costs, severance payments,
judicial mistakes and unemployment, Labour Economics 15(6), 1162-1178.
Baumann, F. und N. Stähler (2008), Union power
as a reason for Europe not to introduce experience rating?, Journal of Institutional
and Theoretical Economics 164(3), 568-585.
Baumann, F., M. Mechtel and N. Stähler (2008), Employment
protection and temporary work agencies, Bundesbank Discussion Paper, Series
1, No. 26/2008.
Stähler, N. (2007), Employment protection and
unemployment: A theoretical analysis evaluating recent policy proposals,
Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt (Dissertation).
Baumann, F. und N. Stähler (2006), Financing unemployment
benefits: Dismissal versus employment taxes, Labour 20(3), 433-451.
Stähler, N. (2006), Employment protection: Its
effects on different skill groups and on the incentive to become skilled,
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 226(1), 41-54.