Water is a vital resource for human existence on earth. The importance of this resource to the wellbeingof mankind and the general scarcity of drinking water which is expected to grow requires thepublic to reflect on the best ways to address demand and supply issues. Therefore, the discourse...

The knowledge of development and maintenance effort is a necessary precondition for alltypes of software management, IS-controlling, guidance of quality and effort estimation. Data collectingsystems seem to be widely used, but the data is said to be unsafe and firm-specific. This paperpresents a...

For years the German automobile industry has been facing a growing competition from Japanas well as from the emerging markets. Increasing tendencies towards globalization, an evenfaster change in customer needs and a stronger contraction of the product life cycle necessitatenew flexible...

The working report looks at the actual situation of the German water market, the only infrastructuremarket the EU has not encouraged to deregulate until now. Especially importantfactors are the environmental relevance of the water market and the importance of water as afood. At the moment,...

Es besteht von wissenschaftlicher Seite aus weitgehend der Konsens, dass grundle-gende demokratische Entscheidungen eines Staates effizienter durchgesetzt werden können, wenn, analog zum politischen föderalen Bereich, auch ökonomisch dezent-rale Freiheits- und Entscheidungsstrukturen...

A characteristic feature of economic development is the ever changing structure ofconsumption patterns. Reducing the explanation of this phenomenon to changingprices, finally caused by changes in the availability of goods (or characteristics),would neglect a major force driving this change, i.e....