This paper is a survey of the literature on theoretical models of the household, paying particular attention to some of … the earlier contributions, and using them to place the current state of the theory in perspective. One of its aims is to … household's preference ordering over the utility profiles of its members depends on exogenous variables, in particular wage …

results are mixed, showing some impact on household production. Simulations using GMM estimates of a Stone-Geary utility … function defined over time use suggest no effect on household production in either country. Estimation of a household model …

environmentally-related taxes and tradable permits is likely to lead to greater technological innovation than more direct forms of … aspects of product and labour market regulation which have implications for technological innovation, such as product and …

Innovation is the major driver of economic growth and development. To analyze innovation processes the restriction of a … framework suited to the analysis of innovation towards the industrial sphere of an economy is not sufficient because of the … important co-evolutionary dimensions of innovation. Instead, a comprehensive economic theoretical approach is needed which …

term effects of regulation on innovation. Second, whether the impact of different types of regulation differ by type of the … Community Innovation Survey 2009, in which companies were asked to cite the respective regulations to be responsive for the … regulation on innovation. Furthermore, different types of regulations varied with respect to their impact on several …

. First, it argues that consumption should be defined as expenditure on household production as well as on market goods, that … life cycle consumption behaviour are resolved. Secondly, we stress the importance of the heterogeneity of household …

The paper examines the determinants that influence the environmental innovation behaviour of companies in Germany in a … multivariate context by using data from the Mannheimer Innovations Panel 1993, which was part of the Community Innovation Survey …. The objective is to analyse the general structures of the determinants of environmental innovation, as well as the …