Die Chemieindustrie ist eine wichtige Säule des Wirtschaftsstandorts Hamburg und der Region Unterelbe als Teil der Metropolregion Hamburg. Aufgrund der Verfügbarkeit von Energie und Rohstoffen, der Lage am seeschifftiefen Wasser und der guten Transportmöglichkeiten ist die Region Unterelbe...

This paper intends to further understanding of catastrophic events by reviewing the economic literature on their effects as well as potential means of dealing with the corresponding risks and uncertainties. Since 2000, the world has seen a number of catastrophes including terrorist attacks in...

This paper sets out to investigate the changing patterns of electricity intensity in European manufacturing for the time span 2000-2011. While GVA in Manufacturing has grown and electricity use has declined, it is not clear that this decrease in intensity is directly associated with improvements...

This study analyzes the economic consequences of power rationing at the level of German counties. Based on a common production function approach, it estimates the costs of power outages for firms and households in all counties and uses these estimates to derive hypothetical rationing plans for...

We investigate the performance of the IHK business climate indices as forecasting tools within a growth framework at the level of four federal states in Northern Germany. In doing this, we match quarterly index scores with estimates of quarterly production data, generated through a Chow-Lin...

The aim of this study is to quantify the macroeconomic costs resulting from a one hour power outage at the level of German counties. This is done by combining public data from various sources based on a well-established methodology, which both accounts for production losses of firms and losses...

This paper proposes a new approach for creating country indices and applies it to the construction of an index ranking countries according to their current level of competitiveness in international goods exchange. Existing indices largely assign equal or in some other way arbitrary weights to...

Erneuerbare Energien haben als Energieträger insbesondere in den vergangenen 10 Jahren erheblich an Bedeutung gewonnen. Dafür sind vor allem zwei Faktoren verantwortlich: Zum einen das Streben nach Energiesicherheit und die Verpflichtungen zum Umwelt- bzw. Klimaschutz. Zum anderen die...