We analyze the current regulatory regime for electricity transmission in Germany, which combines network planning with …

Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our …

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. …

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 …

Nowadays, a process can be observed in Germany where electricity producing and trading firms react to the electricity … improvement of environmental conditions without governmental regulation in Germany. This is done by modelling different strategic …

use econometrically estimated, sectorally differentiated elasticities of substitution for Germany to shed some light on … emission limits for Germany. In particular, we consider the implementation of emission limits by means of a carbon tax …