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...

The European Union is currently negotiating free trade agreements, called Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), with African countries as part of the Cotonou Agreement between the European Union and African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. The paper empirically assesses the impact of the EPAs...

Using quantile regression and a rich cross section data set for German manufacturing plants this paper documents that the impact of plant characteristics on export activities varies along the conditional size distribution of the export/sales ratio.

Gains from productivity and knowledge transmission arising from the presence of foreign firms has received a good deal of empirical attention, but micro-foundations for this mechanism are weak . Here we focus on production by foreign experts who may train domestic unskilled workers who work with...

The use of information plays an important role in the choice of transfer prices (TP). We discuss the information provision of two centralized mechanisms, namely, actual-cost and standard-cost based TP. Actual cost based TP use all available cost information whereas standard cost based TP only...

Da kostenbasierten Verrechnungspreisen in der betrieblichen Praxis eine besondere Bedeutung zukommt, untersucht dieser Beitrag, welche Investitions- und Handelsanreize durch istkosten- und standartkostenbasierte Verrechnugspreise gesetzt werden, wenn die Unternehmensbereiche Kreuzinvestitionen...

Recent theoretical works suggest that migrants carry their social networks when moving across borders and that they bridge the information gap between partner countries. We derive a theoretical model where migrants reduce informational trade barriers and thus enhance exports. The model is...

This study analyzes the impact of international trade on the diffusion of flexible manufacturing in a general equilibrium framework. Suppliers produce a flexible base product that can be adapted to the specific input requirements of a continuum of downstream industries. The vertical structure is...