market. After characterizing the general demand models, it reviews consumer baseline based on which further study the demand … and demand response in the power market and their relationships. It enhances demand response in the electricity market …The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated …

general trend towards increased employment flexibility. Yet to this day, it remains an open question what drives the demand … employment. Using monthly data for Germany covering the period 1973-2008, we show that the continuous liberalization of this …

immigrants. The UK and Germany have experienced significant increases in immigration in recent years and this study uses … individuals on arrival and over time. While immigrants to Germany, but not the UK, are more likely to self-report poor health than …

banking systems, however, there has been ongoing debate on the question of whether an uncovered demand for microlending … services exists. The present pilot study explores customer preferences for microlending products in Germany. Among the …

simultaneously product and labor market imperfections, this paper quantifies industry differences in both types of imperfections … of Hall's econometric framework for estimating price-cost margins by nesting three labor market settings (perfect … market imperfections. Consistent with differences in institutions and in the industrial relations system in the two countries …

We develop a structural multi-factor labour demand model which distinguishes between eightlabour categories including …

This paper aims to estimate the price and income elasticities of the demand for essential commodities in Cote d …), we analyse price effects on the demand for groups of commodities by exploiting a relationship between unit values and …

-constrained consumers' access to financial markets make demand insensitive to interest rate fluctuations. The demand of credit … price sector influence aggregate demand and, for monetary policy to have its desired effect, the central bank has to …

through two channels: the direct impact on the demand for healthcare and that due to selection into VHI. We find evidence of … provided through selection into for-profit VHI. These results imply that the market for VHI eases the redistribution from high …