This paper analyses the employment consequences of policies aimed to support biofuels in the European Union. The promotion of biofuel use has been advocated as a means to promote the sustainable use of natural resources and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions originating from transport activities...

Dieser Beitrag stellt das Modellsystem QINFORGE vor. Es ist durch die Berücksichtigung beruflicher Mobilitätsprozesse in der Lage, Anpassungsreaktionen zwischen Arbeitsangebot und -bedarf auf beruflicher Ebene in der kurzen und langen Frist aufzuzeigen. Das Modell wird genutzt, um die...

The impact of economic institutions on development is presently taken for granted but there is surprisingly scarce evidence on the channels through which institutions affect the organization of output. Imperfections in contractual enforcement, for example, could lead firms to adopt technologies...

This paper explores the relation between activities in the Bolivian economy as suppliers and demanders of intermediate inputs, this whit the purpose to determine which activities have great impact on the rest of the economy and which ones are less integrated. For this, Rasmussen indexes are...

We formulate an optimal control capital accumulation model with a Leontief-type production function and an exogenously given time-lag between investment and the accumulation of the capital stock, to analyze the qualitative and quantitative influence of time-lags on the system dynamics. As known...

Biotechnology is often regarded as a key technology with high potential for far-reaching social, environmental and economic impacts. Among others, the development and diffusion of biotechnology may have considerable economic effects on production and employment. This paper analyzes the economic...

A unilateral tax on CO2 emissions may drive up indirect carbon imports from non-committed countries, leading to carbon leakage. Using a gravity model of carbon trade, we analyze the effect of the Kyoto Protocol on the carbon content of bilateral trade. We construct a novel data set of CO2...

Vielfach wurde Deutschland in der Vergangenheit durch die Medien als Exportweltmeister bezeichnet. Die aktuelle Diskussion in Hinblick auf die von Hans-Werner Sinn aufgestellte Basarökonomiethese befasst sich mit der Frage nach der Vorteilhaftigkeit dieses Titels für Deutschland, zumal der...

Die deutsche Wirtschaftsstruktur mit ihrem relativ hohen Industriegewicht und der damit einhergehenden Weltmarktorientierung stehen derzeit in der Kritik. Auf Basis von Wachstumsbeiträgen und der Input-Output-Rechnung lässt sich zeigen, wie die Wertschöpfung ausgewählter industrieller...

The aim of the paper is to discuss and to provide evidence for the existence of pecuniary knowledge externalities, considered here as the main cause of positive disequilibrium experience by downstream producers. This last effect, confirmed by the empirical analysis here performed, contrasts the...