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This study examines the long-memory properties of German energy price indices (specifically, import and export prices, as well as producer and consumer prices) for hard coal, lignite, mineral oil and natural gas adopting a fractional integration modelling framework. The analysis is undertaken...
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Feed-in tariffs under the Renewable Energy Sources Act, the so-called Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz (EEG), have triggered a massive expansion of electricity from renewable energy sources in Germany over the last decade. The increase in non-competitive renewable power generation though went hand in...
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This paper develops a two-sector R&D-based growth model with congestion effects from increasing urban population density. We show that endogenous technological progress causes structural change if there are positive productivity spillovers from the modern to the traditional sector and Engel's...
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There is growing interest in multi-sector models that combine aggregate balanced growth, consistent with the well-known Kaldor facts, with systematic changes in the sectoral allocation of resources, consistent with the Kuznets facts. Although variations in the income elasticity of demand across...
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China's increased trade with and investment in Africa have boosted the continent's economic growth but have also … generated considerable controversy. In this paper we investigate China's outward direct investment ODI in Africa using macro and … investment is small, though growing rapidly. China's attraction to resource-rich countries is no different from Western …
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The paper analyses adverse investment, growth and distributional effects of ultra-loose monetary policies based on the … substitute real investment by financial investment. When interest rates are expected to fall in the long term, the marginal and …
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In this paper we present the Ifo Investment Database, which provides annual investment data for 12 investment assets in … allows allocating investments by asset type to each industry, using an investment flow matrix. The database enables … researchers to analyze structural investment behavior on the industry level and to identify changes in the importance of in-vestment …
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In this paper we present a new database that allows deep industry-level growth accounting from 1991-2003. The database allows for the first complete analysis of the German industry performance drivers based on the contributions of 12 asset types in 52 different industries. The industry sources...
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view (i.e., including human capital) of investment and saving. We find that the Feldstein-Horioka result is impervious to …
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We study the dual relationship between market structure and prices and between market structure and investment in …. Furthermore, they also lead to higher investment per mobile operator, though the impact on total investment is not conclusive. Our …
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