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Grüner Strom : Verbraucher sind bereit, für Investitionen in erneuerbare Energien zu zahlen

Mattes, Anselm - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 7, pp. 2-9

Für den Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien in Deutschland ist neben den politisch gesetzten Rahmenbedingungen auch die Akzeptanz der Verbraucher entscheidend. Eine aktuelle Studie der DIW econ untersucht das Nachfrageverhalten ökologisch orientierter Stromkunden. Auf Basis einer Befragung wurde...

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Generating economic growth : an analytical survey

Thompson, Maria - In: The open economics journal 1 (2008), pp. 25-36

The theoretical richness and variety of the new growth literature can make it difficult to capture the essence of growth models. With this paper, we wish to provide one possible integrating view of the nature of the growth generating processes. Revisiting the models that constitute the core of...

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Economic growth and its impact on energy consumption and energy intensity of use

Dahan, Abdulkarim Ali - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 3, pp. 215-223

restraining total energy demand in both countries. (3) The effect of GDP on intensity of use for Saudi Arabia is positive … indicating a high price or cost of converting energy into GDP while it is negative for United Arab Emirates, indicating a lower … price or cost of converting energy into GDP. The paper concludes that United Arab Emirates is using its energy more …

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Selected issues of personal income taxation harmonization

Wołowiec, Tomasz - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 7 (2011) 2, pp. 30-44

In the process of furthering EU integration little attention was given to the role of income taxes. Multiple income tax systems exist across the Union and their differentiation negatively impacts the European labor market, investments and savings, inhibiting economic growth. Individual nations...

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Automatic stabilization and discretionary fiscal policy in the financial crisis

Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-19

This paper investigates the relationship between the magnitude of automatic stabilizers in the tax and transfer systems of 19 EU countries and the US, and discretionary fiscal stimulus packages passed by these countries during the recent economic crisis. In particular, we ask whether countries...

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An appraisal of fiscal policy measures and its implication for growth of the Nigerian economy : 1970 - 2009

Ilegbinosa, Imoisi Anthony - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 4, pp. 193-204

This research examines problems surrounding procedures of fiscal policy and their influence on economic growth in Nigeria from 1970 - 2009. Theory envisage that fiscal policy can impinge on economic growth by changing motivation for investment and labour as well as by altering after-tax proceeds...

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Aktuelle Steuerreformvorschläge haben kaum Auswirkungen auf das Wirtschaftswachstum

Bach, Stefan; Brüggemann-Borck, Imke; Fichtner, Ferdinand - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 35, pp. 3-10

Nach den Wahlen im September sind größere Änderungen beim Einkommensteuertarif zu erwarten. Ferner wird häufig gefordert, Familien mit Kindern stärker zu fördern. Aus diesem Anlass hat das DIW Berlin einige Änderungsvorschläge hinsichtlich ihrer gesamtwirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen...

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Impuesto federal a los sueldos generado por las microempresas: caso Cancún, México

Lagunas Pulsa, Sergio; Olivares Urbinaa, Miguel Angel; … - In: Investigaciones europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 18 (2012) 3, pp. 200-205

The objective was given to identify which salary scales exist within micro-enterprises (SME’s) of the economical sector depending on tourism, through representative sample taking, as well as determining the sector to which the SME’s belong that generate greater revenue or, on the contrary,...

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Payments for ecological restoration and internal migration in China : the sloping land conversion program in Ningxia

Démurger, Sylvie; Wan, Haiyuan - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-22

This paper analyzes the impact of the Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP) on rural labor migration in China. We use recent survey data from Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and a difference-in-difference approach to assess the impact of the policy on labor migration decision. We find a...

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The impact of exchange rate changes on disaggregated agricultural output in Nigeria : a two-stage-least-squares approach

Yaqub, Jameelah Omolara - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 6 (2013) 1, pp. 75-89

Agriculture was the mainstay of the Nigerian economy prior to independence and immediately after. Agriculture however, has suffered persistent decline since the 1970s with the exchange rate policy being implicated in the misfortune of this sector. Earlier studies on the effect of exchange rate...

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