2001 dämpfte die schwache Konjunktur auch die Nachfrage nach Verkehrsleistungen. Insbesondere wurde sie von der Baurezession gebremst. Zudem kam es infolge der Terroranschläge vom 11. September 2001 zu gravierenden Einbrüchen. Insgesamt sanken 2001 sowohl das Transportaufkommen als auch die...

Angesichts der in der gesamten gewerblichen Wirtschaft als günstig eingeschätzten Geschäftsperspektiven für das kommende halbe Jahr lassen die Ergebnisse des ifo Konjunkturtests auch in naher Zukunft auf einen positiven Geschäftsverlauf und eine schwungvolle Nachfragesituation in der...

Electronic linkages between organisations enabled by interorganisational information systems (IOS) such as Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Internet- based applications or cargo community systems are becoming increasingly important. Recently, many studies have examined the impact of electronic...

In the European Union (EU) and in Germany the transport sector is the only sector with increasing CO2 emissions (in the EU by about 32 % and in Germany by about 1 % since 1990). Especially in road freight and air transport a further strong increase is forecasted. In the transport sector this...

With the increasing importance of the service-providing sectors, information from these sectors has become essential to the understanding of contemporary business cycles. This paper explores the usefulness of the transportation services output index (TSI) as an additional coincident indicator in...

The presence of foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) should benefit local economies. In particular if MNEs are particularly productive compared to domestic firms they may promote learning and catch-up of local firms. Such channel of spillovers from MNEs to local firms is known as the Veblen...

This paper investigates whether there are country-specific characteristics in goal-scoring in the final stage of important international football matches. We examine goal-scoring from 1960 onwards in full 'A' international matches of six national teams: Belgium, Brazil, England, Germany, Italy...

We apply Diebold-Yilmaz spillover index methodology to monthly industrial production indices to study business cycle interdependence among G-6 industrialized countries since 1958. The business cycle spillover index fluctuates substantially over time, increasing especially after the 1973-75,...

This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...