The level of interest rates has been extraordinarily low in the last few years in Germany and provokes an analysis of the effects of lasting interest rate cuts on the income situation and demand on the part of…
In the 1990’s the Federal Employment Service and the Federal Government in Germany spent over 400 billion DM on active labour market policy. Other public bodies also spend significant amounts on active measures.…
In the past decade the lubricants market has undergone profound changes. Technical, ecological, and economic requirements towards lubricants have increased. In traditional markets - e.g. the Federal Republic of…
This projects aims to develop a new concept of selecting the first market entry for new products and processes. The concept suggests that for many innovations there are leading markets that initiate the…
In this project we will conduct comparative empirical analyses of labour market effects of income support programmes in Germany and the USA. Initially, we will identify the differences between the two countries…
The project is concerned with deriving ratios of infrastructural costs between rail and open road(particularly 40-ton trucks) transit for two German regions, Basel and Berlin, using 1998 as base year. The…