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We analyze the current regulatory regime for electricity transmission in Germany, which combines network planning with …
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entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …
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in Germany will come to an end in 2022. Due to the German power system's sufficient capacities-in 2020, the sector …
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Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our …
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Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification … employees and the overall level of self-employment in West Germany, their explanatory power is much lower for the stronger … increase of solo self-employment and of self-employment in former socialist East Germany. …
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The construction of a second Baltic Sea natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany (Nord Stream 2) is very … that it is a profitable, private-sector investment project that is necessary to secure natural gas supplies for Germany and … gas supplies for Germany and Europe. The energy consumption forecasts on which the project is based, especially the EU …
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Power generation from lignite and hard coal was responsible for more than a quarter of German greenhouse gas emissions in 2016. Of all federal states, North Rhine-Westphalia is by far the largest carbon emitter. The Growth, Structural Change and Regional Development Commission (also known as...
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formation: industry, location and change over time. The data is for West Germany and covers the 1983-97 period. Our analysis …
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This paper analyzes the distribution of technical efficiency within manufacturing industries. Using a representative sample of 35,000 firms in 255 industries of the German cost structure census, technical efficiencies are estimated by applying a deterministic frontier production function with...
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A new approach in German innovation policy organizes contests of proposals for developing innovation networks. Based on an overview of the different programs, we investigate the advantages, problems and limitations of such an approach. We find that this type of policy may have a relatively large...
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