This report assesses the key drivers, environmental pressures and some impacts from the production and consumption of energy, taking into account the main objectives of the European policy on energy and environment including: security of supply, competitiveness, increased energy efficiency and...

This paper examines the effect of a new technology on a labour-intensive service. Comparing primal and dual TFP-growth with final-year social savings, we find that, between 1900 and 1938, motion pictures increased entertainment output (measured in spectator-hours) by at least nine percent...

This paper examines patterns of structural change and labour productivity growth in the late nineteenth-century Habsburg Empire. Using shift-share analysis and a set of basic measures to account for the contribution of physical and human capital growth, it seeks to address three questions:...

This research is the outcome of fieldwork undertaken between November 2002 and 2003 inAl Gharaza village part of Khartoum State - the Sudan capital.The study focuses on identifying how spaces and times are interrelated and engendered. Theforces that impact the creation of boundaries or those...

Eine wirtschaftliche, sichere und umweltverträglicheEnergieversorgung ist Grundlage für die Funktionsfähigkeitunserer Volkswirtschaft, für denWohlstandderMenschen und für die Zukunftschancen nachfolgenderGenerationen.Diese Broschüre befasst sichmit den Rahmenbedingungenund Trends der...

Der vorliegende Artikel befasst sich mit dem stagnierenden Markt und der daraus resultierenden Notwendigkeit für deutsche Energieversorgungsunternehmen neue strategische Konzepte zu entwickeln. Dabei soll geklärt werden, in wie weit sich durch Internationalisierung neue Marktchancen ergeben.

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...