1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 02-62 // 2002

    Assessing Voluntary Commitments: Monitoring is Not Enough!

    This paper deals with a special type of voluntary approach to protect the environment, for example, that we would like to term voluntary commitment. Its major characteristic is that it represents a unilateral…

  2. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2002

    Quantification of Qualitative Data Using Ordered Probit Models

    This paper aims at providing business survey analysts with simple econometric tools to quantify qualitative survey data. We extend the traditional and commonly applied method proposed by Carlson and Parkin…

  3. Discussion and Working Paper // 2002

    The Adoption of a New General Purpose Technology - The Case of the Internet

    Paper presented at the 27th General Conference of The International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, Djurhamn, Sweden