(electricity and heating) in Germany. Using official expenditure data from 1993 to 2008, we estimate an expenditure elasticity for …

Germany. Material footprints are defined as the amount of biomass, minerals, and fossil fuels extracted to produce the goods … among households, highlighting hot spots of unsustainable consumption patterns by household groups. Households in the … the lowest expenditures. Results of a microeconomic model of household's consumption behaviour estimated on the EVS data …

This paper analyzes the dynamic effects of different macroeconomic shocks on unemployment in Germany. In a first step …

welfare state. We address this deficiency by studying the drivers of charitable giving in Germany, a country with a highly … developed welfare state, using tax return data of the years 2001 to 2003. Our study not only expands the literature by adding … contributions. Our results suggest no significant differences between donors in the US and Germany with respect to income and price …

Opponents of the voluntary labeling scheme for genetically modified (GM) food products often argue that consumers have … experimental auctions conducted with a sample of the resident population of Mannheim, Germany, we show that the quality of the …

sectional data (for September 2009) for about 500 sub markets for household customers in Germany. These submarkets have … Office in Germany prohibited further forward integration of gas importing firms with retail incumbents from 2005/2006 to 2010 …

storms, heavy rain, and floods. Concern about future climate change on the household level has a substantial negative impact …