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Factors influencing German house owners’ preferences on energy retrofits
Achtnicht, Martin; Madlener, Reinhard - 2012
In this paper, we identify key drivers and barriers for the adoption of building energy retrofits in Germany, which is … Germany, that was conducted as a computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI). In the survey, respondents were asked directly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009564925
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Do environmental benefits matter? : A choice experiment among house owners in Germany
Achtnicht, Martin - 2010
retrofits for existing houses in Germany. In the experiment, the approximately 400 sampled house owners could either choose a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008702158
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Do local governments tax homeowner communities differently?
Füss, Roland; Lerbs, Oliver - 2017
and historical war damages as a source of exogenous variation in local homeownership, we provide empirical evidence that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011730837
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Housing expenditures and income inequality
Dustmann, Christian; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Zimmermann, Markus - 2018
exacerbate the trend of income inequality that has risen sharply in Germany since the mid-1990s. More specifically, whereas the … the relative costs of homeownership versus renting, changes in household structure, and residential mobility toward larger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932571
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Volatilitätseffekte am US-amerikanischen Häusermarkt
Schindler, Felix - 2009
Während direkte Immobilieninvestments lang Zeit als renditeträchtig bei gleichzeitig begrenztem Risiko galten, führte den Anlegern insbesondere die gegenwärtige Finanzmarktkrise vor Augen, dass auch Immobilienanlagen insbesondere in den USamerikanischen Häusermarkt mit hohen Risiken...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003881343
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From less promising to green? : technological opportunities and their role in (green) ICT innovation
Cecere, Grazia; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Schulte, Patrick - 2015
This paper aims to shed light on the role of technological opportunities for green innovation by studying the case of Green ICT innovation. We test two hypotheses: (1) Firms active in low-opportunity technological areas are less innovative; (2) Firms active in low-opportunity technological areas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436068
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Employment and wage effects of social security financing : an empirical analysis of the West German experience and some policy simulations
Steiner, Viktor - 1996
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439693
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Price indexes for PC database software and the value of code compatibility
Harhoff, Dietmar; Moch, Dietmar - 1996
matched-model price indexes for personal computer database software. Our database covers the price development in Germany from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440581
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Robust GMM estimation of an Euler equation investment model with German firm level panel data
Janz, Norbert - 1997
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440610
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Human capital and innovation in East and West German manufacturing firms
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 1997
, 1994 and 1995. In the German industrial sector, especially in East Germany, employment has declined and the share of highly … current stage of transition subsidising labour might be more effective for creating jobs in East Germany than promoting R …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440719