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In the first chapter of this dissertation, I estimate the long-run price elasticity of supply of renewable electricity generating capacity using the variation in state mandates for renewable electricity production. These mandates require electricity providers to purchase a predetermined fraction...
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The concept of trade openness is broadly applied as a potential predictor in numerous empirical studies, despite the fact that no commonly accepted approach of measuring openness has been developed. The most widely applied (‘traditional’) openness indices are not able to accurately calculate...
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Targets for CO2 reduction tend to be set in terms of the amount of pollution generated within the borders of a given region or nation. That is, under a "production accounting principle". However, in recent years there has been increased public and policy interest in the notion of a carbon...
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In this thesis it is analyzed if promoting product market competition can help to to fight unemployment in Europe. We have used a general equilibrium model in order to study how reducing mark-ups and increasing productivity in one sector affect aggregate unemployment for an exogenously given...
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Environmental awareness and its relation to the development of economy have garnered increased attention in recent years. This study analyzes the long-run relationship between environment degradation, economic growth, total energy consumption and industrial production index growth in Malaysia...
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In this paper we develop a cost index-based measure of the expected consumer welfare gains from innovation in electricity generation technologies. To illustrate our approach, we estimate how much better off consumers would be from 2000 to 2020 as renewable energy technologies continue to be...
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Die kumulative Habilitationsschrift setzt sich aus acht Publikationen und zwei eingereichten Artikeln zusammen, die umweltökonomische und energiewirtschaftliche Forschungsthemen behandeln. Der gemeinsame thematische Hintergrund der Einzelbeiträge besteht in der Analyse von...
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U.S.and Germany. The benchmark for assessing the empirical analyses theoretically is the general equilibrium framework … reality of labour market rationing and itsdistributional implications both in the U.S. and Germany. … U.S.and Germany. The benchmark for assessing the empirical analyses theoretically is the general equilibrium framework …
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, including Germany, in the last decade of the twentieth century, has also led to an increase in the immigrant entrepreneurship …. More precisely, the self-employment structure of immigrants to Germany changed tremendously since the 1970s. For instance …, this dissertation investigates the determinants of successful immigrant entrepreneurship for whole Germany as well as for …
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Deutschland hat eine weit zurückreichende Tradition als Einwanderungsland. Im internationalenVergleich gehört die … Bundesrepublik Deutschland mittlerweile zu den größten Einwanderungsländern.Deutschland betreibt jedoch … Deutschland von der Einwanderungs- und Integrationspolitik des größtenklassischen Einwanderungslandes, der USA, etwas lernen …
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