The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated … the growing literature on models used to study demand, consumer baseline (CBL) and demand response in the electricity … market. After characterizing the general demand models, it reviews consumer baseline based on which further study the demand …

The extension of subsidized child care is currently on top of the political agenda in Germany. In this paper the excess … demand for subsidized child care slots is estimated using a partial observability model in the style of Abowd and Farber …

help. This hypothesis is examined for the case of demand for hospital care which covers the largest part of public …

This paper presents a life cycle model for the demand for health, and derives empirical specifications that distinguish … between permanent and transitory wage responses. Using panel data, we estimate dynamic health and health input demand …

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 …

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 …

Using detailed time use data for Germany a positive correlation is found between the level of schooling education and …) and (2) highly educated people have a preference for ?high quality? leisure (taste effect). The demand for informal …

social insurance reform in Germany suggest that previous calibration-based results accurately indicate the direction of …

20 estimators common in the panel data literature using the data on migration to Germany from 18 source countries in the …