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...

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...

Italian manufacturing ¯rms have been losing ground with respect to many of their European competitors. This paper presents some empirical evidence on the e®ects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on ¯rms' productivity with the goal of understanding the roots of such poor...

In this paper we investigate the way consumption changes around retirement in Italy. Using micro data covering the 1985-96 period, we find that consumption age patterns are similar to those found in the US and other developed countries, despite the much more wide-spread cohabitation of different...

This paper studies how heterogeneity in income dynamics affects the POUM hypothesis (the idea that poor people do not support high level of redistribution because they hope to be rich in the future). We consider a setting where individuals evaluate their expected future income using both their...

Recovery in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain is held back in part by structural barriers. Overcoming these requires structural reform and public investment. Given the limited availability of political and financial capital, prioritising reform efforts and spending is important, but difficult....