Mitarbeiter

Dr. Nikolai Stähler

• Deutsche Bundesbank
• Central Office, Economics Department
• Wilhelm Epstein Str. 14
• 60431 Frankfurt am Main
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• +49 69 9566-2865
• Dr. Nikolai Stähler

Research Interests

• 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.

Publications in Refereed Journals

• Baumann, F., M. Oschinski and N. Stähler (2012), On the welfare effects of fair trade on the welfare of the poor. Journal of International Development, 24(1), 159-172.
• Stähler, N. and C. Thomas (2012), FiMod – a DSGE model for fiscal policy simulations. Economic Modelling, 29(2), 239-261.
• Mayer, E. and N. Stähler (2011), The Debt Brake: Business Cycle and Welfare Consequences of Germany’s New Fiscal Policy Rule. Empirica: Journal of European Economics, forthcoming.
• Priesmeier, C. and N. Stähler (2011), Long Dark Shadows or Innovative Spirits? The Effects of (Smoothing) Business Cycles on Economic Growth: A Survey of the Literature. Journal of Economic Surveys, 25(5), 898-912.
• Baumann, F., M. Mechtel and N. Stähler (2011), Employment protection and temporary work agencies. Labour, 25(3), 308-329.
• Stähler, N. (2009), Taxing deficits to restrain government spending. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 11(1), 159-176.
• 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. and 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. and 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.

Other Selected Publications and Working Papers

• Schwarzmüller, T. and N. Stähler (2011), Reforming the labor market and improving competitiveness: an analysis for Spain using FiMod. Deutsche Bundesbank Discussion Paper, Series 1: Economic Studies, No 28/2011.
• Stähler, N. (2011), Recent developments in quantitative models of sovereign default. Deutsche Bundesbank Discussion Paper, Series 1: Economic Studies, No 17/2011.
• Mayer, E., S. Moyen and N. Stähler (2010), Government expenditures and unemployment: a DSGE perspective, Deutsche Bundesbank Discussion Paper, Series 1: Economic Studies, No 18/2010.
• Moyen, S. and N. Stähler (2009), Unemployment insurance and the business cycle: Prolong benefit entitlements in bad times?, Deutsche Bundesbank Discussion Paper, Series 1: Economic Studies, No 30/2009.
• Moser, C. and N. Stähler (2009), Spillover effects of minimum wages in a two sector search economy, Deutsche Bundesbank Discussion Paper, Series 1: Economic Studies, No 01/2009.
• Stähler, N. (2007), Employment protection and unemployment: A theoretical analysis evaluating recent policy proposals. Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt (Dissertation).