Estimating farmers' supply responses to changes in framework conditions is important to in-form decision-makers on the expected impacts on production volume as well as the resulting land-use shifts. Existing agricultural supply response models generally require either larger databases with...

Aufgrund der schwierigen finanziellen Lage der Kommunen in Deutschland besteht ein Investitionsstau bei Feuerwehrfahrzeugen in Höhe von mehr als 2 Mrd. EUR. Um der örtlichen Gefahrenabwehr nachkommen zu können, müssen neue Wege gesucht werden, die technischen Anforderungen zu erfüllen....

Our contribution aims to explore the different ways in which early economic data can inform public health policy decisions on new medical technologies. Methods: A broad explorative literature research was conducted to detect methodological contributions covering the health policy perspective....

This paper discusses aspects related to the green technology sector in Germany. In a ?rst step institutional reforms enabling diffusion of green technologies are analysed. Cost arguments are also taken into account. In a second step a theoretical model developed by Tanguay et al. (2004) is...

Both raw intuition and past experience suggest that the success of an employment guarantee scheme (EGS) in safeguarding the welfare of the poor depends both on the wage it promises, and the ease with which any worker can gain access. An EGS is thus at once a wage guarantee and a rationing...

China has had an enormous growth of energy and electricity consumption during the last decades. This has been fuelled primarily by using domestic coal resources. Until 1997, annual construction of power stations averaged around 15 GW which was not sufficient to alleviate the demand surplus....

In this paper we use a simple bureaucracy model of fiscal illusion to analyze the impact of intergovernmental grants on the cost efficiency of local jurisdictions. We find that a higher degree of redistribution within a system of fiscal equalization or an increase in the amount of grants...

Der Transformationsprozeß der vergangenen Jahre führte in der bulgarischen Landwirtschaft zu einschneidenden Strukturveränderungen und besonders im Bereich der Milchproduktion zu drastischen Produktionsrückgängen. In diesem Zusammenhang kommen Analysen der ökonomischen Rahmenbedingungen im...