Former generation capacity expansion models were formulated as optimization problems. Theseincluded a reliability criterion and hence guaranteed security of supply. The situation is differentin restructured markets where investments need to be incentivised by the margin resulting fromelectricity...

In dieser Arbeit werden die Problematik der Beschaffungsoptimierung einer Erdölraffinerie unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Risiko vorgestellt und Lösungsansätze zur Integration des Risikos indie Planung entwickelt. Die Ergebnisse verschiedener Lösungsmodellansätze und...

Until a few generations ago, humans made their living by foraging, like other animals.We have therefore inherited genes that allowed our ancestors to thrive as hunters andgatherers. Thriving in a modern economy requires very different behaviours but wecope because the human brain evolved to be...

Many contributions suggest that earnings instability has increased during the 1980s and1990s. This paper develops and estimates an on-the-job search model of the labor market tostudy the contribution of wage inequality and job mobility in explaining earnings instability. Tostudy the evolution...

Die HA Hessen Agentur GmbH fertigt im Rahmen ihrer laufenden Branchenbeobachtungim Auftrag des Hessischen Ministeriums für Wirtschaft, Verkehr und LandesentwicklungBranchenprofile für bedeutende hessische Industriezweige an.Ziel dieser Profile ist es, in kompakter Form einen datengestützten...

Beside “Europeanisation” of politics and globalisation of the economy, reunification ofGermany is another challenge for the German model of industrial relations. Using the Germanmodel approach, this paper investigates the impact and consequences of territorial extensionof free collective...

BEA’s national economic statistics provide a comprehensive view of U.S. production, consumption, investment, exports and imports, and income and saving. These statistics are best known by summary measures such as gross domestic product (GDP), corporate profits, personal income and spending,...

The Survey of Professional Forecasters is the oldest quarterly survey of macroeconomic forecasts in the United States. The survey began in 1968 and was conducted by the American Statistical Association and the National Bureau of Economic Research. The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia took...

This research report from the Milken Institute ranks U.S. metropolitan areas that are recording the top economic performance and creating the most jobs in the nation. The index is an outcomes-based measure as opposed to one that incorporates explicit measures of business costs, cost-of-living...

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