Es zeichnet sich immer deutlicher ab, dass die Unterzeichnerstaaten des Klimapro-tokolls von Kioto Maßnahmen ergreifen werden, um die darin festgeschriebenen nationalen Reduktionsverpflichtungen für…
During the last 20 years, R&D and innovation activities in the service sector have clearly increased. Especially business services are believed to be one of the main drivers of technical changes and economic…
Over the last decades manufacturers have outsourced service inputs and shared resources with competitors. As a result, service inputs have been the fastest growing input factor in German manufacturing, followed…
In der Diskussion um die Reform der föderalen Finanzverfassung wird oft eine Stärkung der Steuerautonomie der Länder gefordert. Seitens der Befürworter wird die damit verbundene Ausweitung der…
Der Reduktion der Arbeitslosigkeit kommt ein hoher Stellenwert in der wirtschaftspolitischen Debatte in Deutschland zu. Diese Studie beschreibt die Höhe und Strukltur der Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschaknd und…
Employee resistance against innovations is a virulent phenomenon and there is a broad theoretical literature on its determinants. The empiri- cal evidence is scarce, however, and mainly provides descriptive…
Germany has committed itself to reducing its carbon emissions by 25 percent in 2005 as compared to 1990 emission levels. To achieve this goal, the government has recently launched an environmental tax reform…
This paper makes an empirical contribution to confirm the stylized fact that the performance of firms deteoriates in the years before exit. For this reason we evaluate whether market exits differ significantly…
The paper applies standard public choice reasoning to the negotiations on EU enlargement and the Treaty of Nice. The starting point is the assumption that accession can only be successfully completed if the…
In recent years stock option plans have become a substantial part of compensation schemes in U.S. companies. While in the beginning companies granted options only to the top-management more and more companies…
The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper…