Die neue Welt ist intuitiv und leicht. Die Toleranz der Kunden gegenüber Umständlichkeit und Intransparenz sinkt. Andere Branchen bemühen sich schon heute darum, Kundenbedürfnisse jenseits der Industriegrenzen zu erkennen und zu bedienen. Erfahrungen, die Kunden in der digitalen Welt in...

In this paper, substitutional relationships between capital, labour, material, electricity, and fossil fuels in German producing and service sectors are estimated using a translog cost function. Estimates are based on a pooled time-series cross-sectional data sample for the period 1978-90 and...

The Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) aims at the assessment of people's willingness to pay (WTP) for a public project. The sum of the individual WTPs is interpreted as the social benefits of the project under consideration and compared to the project costs. If the benefits exceed the costs the...