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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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towards nuclear power outside Japan, leading to a sudden and very significant shift in the underlying power generation … structure in Germany. This provides a very useful natural experiment on the impact of increasing proportions of renewable …
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, Germany, Japan and the USA taking into account the different regulation schemes in these countries. We concentrate on … leader in the market segment of low and middle quality boilers, whereas Japan and Germany still dominate the world turbine …. In the meanwhile, Japan has surpassed the United States, although it started as a typical lag market. Japan has caught up …
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effect. Also, the effect of immigration on support for redistribution has not been studied for Germany - Europe's largest …
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corporate governance systems have been identified as the main reasons for the financial crisis. In Germany, corporate governance …
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Knowledge and technological change are often assumed to be the driving forces for long run economic growth. Regions with a higher level of knowledge compared to other regions exhibit a higher per-capita income on average. Agglomeration effects can lead to a steady increase of income and widen...
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academic spinoffs in Germany. The results of this paper show that employment growth of academic spinoffs is higher when the …
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Economic theory suggests that financing constraints may occur due to capital market imperfections. These particularly affect investments in innovation projects as such projects are typically characterized by a high degree of uncertainty, complexity and specificity. Financing innovation...
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The law on labour market reforms has severely limited the maximum benefit period for the elderly; with cuts of up to 14 months, depending on the age group. Our paper examines this natural experiment and shows that for the age groups in question, the transition rates from employment to...
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This paper analyses the impact of business process outsourcing (BPO) on firm productivity based on a comprehensive German firm-level panel data set covering manufacturing and service industries. The growing importance of service inputs into the production process is undisputed. Firms...
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