In einer im Mai 2010 von der WirtschaftsfördergesellschaftVorpommern mbH (WFG) in Zusammenarbeit mit kreislichen undstädtischen Wirtschaftsförderern sowie der Fachhochschule Stralsund, FachbereichWirtschaft, durchgeführten branchenübergreifenden Unternehmensbefragungzur Zufriedenheit mit...

Dieser Artikel formuliert drei Thesen: (1) Viele Projekte, mit denen Unternehmenihre gesellschaftliche Verantwortung unter Beweis stellen wollen, tragen ungewolltdazu bei, die Akzeptanzkrise der Marktwirtschaft zu verschärfen, anstatt ihrentgegenzuwirken. Sie bedienen nämlich das populäre...

This paper shows how sustainable consumption patterns can spread within a population viaprocesses of social learning even though a strong individual learning bias may favorenvironmentally harmful products. We present a model depicting how the biased transmission ofdifferent behaviors via...

In this paper we carry out a preliminary exploration of a time scales’ conjecture, whichpostulates that “reasonable” notions of sustainability must include a suitable synchronisationof time scales of both the processes of human development and those of the naturalenvironment. We perform...

Der vorliegende Beitrag zeigt auf, wie hedonische Preisindizes für Immobilien auf der Basis von Transaktionen berechnet werden können. Der Heterogenität der Immobilien wird dabei durch ein ökonometrisches Modell Rechnung getragen, wobei in dieser Arbeit das Problem der Wahl einer geeigneten...

The main argument in this paper is that new information and communication technologies (ICT) in the financial industry will increase specialisation and competition within the European financial centre system and thereby lead to a ‘re-bundling’ of functions of the various financial centres....

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...

We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth patterns can be understood as a function of several interrelated factors, which include investment in physical capital, human capital, and infrastructure capital...

This paper analyzes the determinants of alternative automobile fuel regulation and developmentsupport with a particular focus on methanol fuel. We find that embedded interests, bureaucraticreforms, and political circumstances in the Chinese national, provincial, and municipalgovernments have all...

In the literature technical change is mostly assumed to be exogenous and specified as afunction of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can also affecttechnical change. In this paper we model technical change via time trend (purely externalnon-economic) as well as other...