Discounting future costs and benefits is a crucial yet contentious practice in the appraisal of long-term public projects with environmental consequences. The standard approach typically neglects that ecosystem services are not easily substitutable with manufactured goods and often exhibit...

The authors compare a firm's costs and benefits of providing apprenticeship training in Austria and Switzerland, using two original micro data sets. While both countries share a number of similarities, including an extensive vocational education and training (VET) system, and a common border,...

Tradable black (CO2) and green (renewables) quotas gain in popularity and stringency within climate policies of many OECD countries. The overlapping regulation through both instruments, however, may have important adverse economic implications. Based on stylized theoretical analysis and...

Adaptation to climate change is gaining increasing relevance in the public debate of climate policy. However, detailed and regionalised cost estimates as a basis for cost-benefit-analyses are rare. We compose available cost estimates for adaptation in Europe, and in particular Germany, Finland...

Die Frage nach der Wirksamkeit und der Wirtschaftlichkeit des Lernens und Lehrens mit digitalen Medien ist bisher nicht systematisch geklärt. Juliana Schlicht legt eine wegweisende Arbeit für die Analyse und monetäre Bewertung „intangibler“ Phänomene wie Einstellungen, berufliches...

Grundlegende Begriffe und ihre empirische Darstellung -- Volkswirtschaftliche Bedeutung des Verkehrs -- Verkehrsökonometrische Methoden und Verfahren -- Besonderheiten des Verkehrssektors zur Begründung staatlicher Einflussnahme -- Elemente der verkehrspolitischen Praxis.