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This dissertation uses search theory to study a variety of macroeconomic issues with microfoundation, which features theoretical study with three relatively independent essays. The first essay is about work hour, unemployment and wage dispersion under labor market search friction. The second essay explores the decentralized equilibrium with labor market heterogeneity and workers' education choice. The third essay investigates China's educated unemployment problem with a search theoretic view. In Chapter 2, we embed a competitive search model with wages determined by ex post bidding into a mainstream macroeconomic models in which households choose consumption and leisure. In addition, each firm requires only one worker to operate the technology, but we incorporate the choice of capital and the demand for labor hours by firms. We derive explicitly a steady state wage dispersion, consumption dispersion, and work hour dispersion. However, saving from households remain degenerate and matches the unique capital acquired by firms before the matching process to find workers. Chapter 3 studies the role of education in a wage posting model with double-sided heterogeneity. The model features large market with large number of participants. I formulate the decentralized equilibrium framework and show that the weak PAM pattern maintains with workers' choice of education. I design a possible PAM equilibrium with workers' linear job application strategy before presenting the equilibrium outcomes. Some qualitative aspects are also under discussion. Chapter 4 investigates the labor market reform and educated unemployment issue in China. By construction of a two period model with market duality and labor mobility control, I show that as the government easing control on labor mobility, more workers from inferior market will choose education as their optimal strategy to search in high return market and educated unemployment in high return market will increase before decrease. The study also suggests that easing mobility control by ...

AbstractThis article examines critically the present structure of regulation of the liquor industry in Victoria. This is a mixture of detailed regulation of liquor supply conditions through the licensing of outlets and of taxation and other regulation of consumption activities. It examines the justification for regulation in some form which derives from socially harmful consequences of alcohol consumption such as drink driving and nuisance actions. The present controls are seen to be largely ineffective because they are not targetted closely to the activities which cause social harm. Substantial changes to the licensing system and other policies are recommended.

The Meanings of Consumption -- An Aspiration for All the World: Championing Individual Freedom of Choice -- The System: Capitalist Consumerism -- Private Choices, Public Problems -- The Shopocalypse -- Consumption, Power, and Liberation -- Shopping Police.

The article gives a review of the scientific conference 'Culture, Consumption and Economics of Creativity: Philosophical, Sociological and Communicative Aspects' held at the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. The text represents the course of the conference, the main thoughts of speakers, and some moments of discussion. Main topics analysed by the speakers of the conference were the following: consumption and creative society, consumer culture, creative industries and economics of creativity, social partnership in creative clusters, relationship between politics and culture, dialectics of culture and consumption, relationship between culture and economy, contradictions between creativity and economic sustainability; relations between capitalism, rationality and secularization; quarantgressions of frontiers of public and private, culture of consumption under conditions of pandemic coronavirus, the consumption of virtual culture and other.

Biofuel production has grown considerably between 2004 and 2009. Global ethanol production more than doubled from 30 to 76 billion litres (1,609 PJ1) while global biodiesel grew eight-fold from 2 to 17 billion litres (550 PJ2) (REN21 Secretariat 2010, 13). In 2008, biofuels provided 2,109 PJ of fuel consumption, while global oil and natural gas consumption for the transport sector amounted to 93,282 PJ (International Energy Agency 2010). Mandatory blending of biofuels has been enacted in at least 41 states/provinces and 24 countries at the national level in 2009, and the EU Directive 2009/28/EC mandates the member states to ensure that at least 10% of the final consumption of energy in transport shall come from renewable sources (European Parliament 2009). Although specific framework conditions and objectives of these programmes differ from country to country, the following overall driving forces can be identified since they represent global challenges (International Transport Forum of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2008a, 4). [. aus der Einleitung]

Systematically analyzing for the first time the production output from electricity consumption for enterprises, sectors, and industries, this study uses the function of EAI (electricity as input), and includes national E-GDP figures for more than 20 countries.

International audience ; A model which formalizes the interplay between green consumer culture and sustainable technology is used to revisit the trade-off between economic growth and environmental preservation. The theory includes (i) green preferences formed through cultural transmission which involves rational socialization actions, (ii) innovation endogenously directed to sustainable or unsustainable sectors depending on culture through market size effects. The model captures an important feature of sustainable innovation processes which is the existence of path dependency. The approach allows to examine implications for both market-based instruments (i.e., environmental taxes) and non-monetary interventions (i.e., environmental education). The two types of policies are either complements or substitutes depending on the substitutability between clean and dirty goods. Finally, an important disregarded issue is examined: the political sustainability of environmental taxes.