Im vergangenen Jahr verzeichnete Deutschland einen Rekordüberschuss im Außenhandel in Höhe von 83,6 Mrd. Euro, mehr als doppelt so viel wie im Jahre 2001. Der Maschinenbau ist nach der Automobilindustrie die zweitgrößte Exportbranche. Seine Exportquote belief sich im Jahre 2000 auf nahezu...

Repaired compressors are compared with remanufactured and new compressors in terms of economic and environmental benefits. A detailed life cycle assessment has been carried out for compressors under three manufacturing strategies: repaired, remanufactured and new equipment. The life cycle...

Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen-Studienrichtungen/-gänge erfreuen sich ungebrochener Beliebtheit und auch die Nachfrage am Arbeitsmarkt nach AbsolventInnen ist nach wie vor größer als das Angebot. Wie schon in der Wirtschaftsingenieurstudie 2010 erhoben, zeigen auch die Ergebnisse der aktuellen...

Generating a regular season schedule is a demanding task for any sports league. In Europe, the creation of a suitable schedule for every national top soccer league not only has to address numerous conflicting inner-league requirements and preferences. Additionally, the games of the European Cup...

This collection presents an updated bibliography of those empirical forest ecosystem service valuation studies in the German speaking countries which relate to demand oriented measures of the utility of public goods. The associated database (which is provided as a separately downloadable...

One of the main goals of the "Energy Strategy 2050" in Switzerland is the exploitation of the existing energy efficiency potentials. The size of the efficiency potential strongly depends on the development and the adoption of energy-related innovations. The objective of this project is to...

This paper explores the price-setting behavior of Austrian firms based on survey evidence. Our main result is that customer relationships are a major source of price stickiness in the Austrian economy. We also find that the majority of firms in our sample follows a timedependent pricing...

Based on individual price records collected for the computation of the Austrian CPI, average frequencies of price changes and durations of price spells are estimated to characterize price setting in Austria. Depending on the estimation method, prices are unchanged for 10 to 14 months on average....