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passenger road traffic, total external costs amount to about 44 ECU/1000 pkm on the route Frankfurt -Milan, including the impact … of the transport modes, external costs of passenger road traffic are about 9 times as high as those of rail traffic and … about twice as high as those of air traffic. For goods transport by road, the total external costs (30.6 ECU/1000 tkm) are …
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In the European Union (EU) and in Germany the transport sector is the only sector with increasing CO2 emissions (in the … EU by about 32 % and in Germany by about 1 % since 1990). Especially in road freight and air transport a further strong …
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large economies, USA, United Kingdom, Germany, France and Japan. The empirical results show that although the pure NGARCH …
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This paper examines return predictability when the investor is uncertain about the right state variables. A novel feature of the model averaging approach used in this paper is to account for finite-sample bias of the coefficients in the predictive regressions. Drawing on an extensive...
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whether the peculiar OECD results for Germany on the incidence of social security contributions and taxes also hold up within … in Germany. The main result of the paper is that there is in fact a positive short-run employment effect of a revenue …
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In this paper the outlier robust GMM panel data estimator recently proposed by Lucas, van Dijk, and Kloek (1994) is applied to an Euler equation model of firm investment behaviour with imperfectly competitive product markets for a small panel of German nonfinancial stock companies. Plots for...
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Germany, as most other European countries, has been plagued by a persistently high level of long-term unemployment … level of long-term unemployment in Germany relative to the United States? …
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The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by various recent papers (e.g. Oliner and Sichels 1994, Landauer 1995, Brynjolfsson and Hitt 1996). Several explanations are given for this missing link. Our paper deals with two...
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We explore the tail of patented invention value distributions by using value estimates obtained directly from patent holders. The paper focuses on those full-term German patents of the application year 1977 which were held by West German and U.S. residents. The most valuable patents in our data...
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