"Die im Jahr 1998 durchgeführte Erhebung des IAB-Betriebspanels hatte 'Innovationen im Betrieb' als Schwerpunktthema. Diese Studie analysiert empirisch die kurzfristigen Beschäftigungseffekte von Produkt- und Prozessinnovationen und den damit zusammenhängenden organisatorischen Änderungen in...

"The paper analyses the specific contribution of competence within the context of industrial innovation processes, based essentially on findings from an empirical study carried out in large-scale enterprises of the pharmaceutical industry. According to the thesis, the organizational context of...

"The paper analyses the specific contribution of competence within the context of industrial innovation processes, based essentially on findings from an empirical study carried out in large-scale enterprises of the pharmaceutical industry. According to the thesis, the organizational context of...

"Die im Jahr 1998 durchgeführte Erhebung des IAB-Betriebspanels hatte 'Innovationen im Betrieb' als Schwerpunktthema. Diese Studie analysiert empirisch die kurzfristigen Beschäftigungseffekte von Produkt- und Prozessinnovationen und den damit zusammenhängenden organisatorischen Änderungen in...

By defining some behaviors as crimes, law defines incentives and protects society from direct and indirect, tangible and intangible negative impacts. Whatever the severity of the prescribed penalties for those that prevaricate, society and its institutions need to act at the level of law...

Making decisions about optimal investments in green infrastructure necessitates setting social discount rates. This paper suggests a practical way for determining the discount rate for projects or programmes in which one of the options is to maintain or restore land to an undeveloped state. We...

This paper shows that implicit assumptions about the numeraire good in the Kaldor–Hicks efficiency–equity analysis involve a “same-yardstick” fallacy (a fallacy pointed out by Paul Samuelson in another context). These results have negative implications for cost-benefit analysis, the...

The intervention of dual dispatch defibrillation by ambulance and fire services in the County of Stockholm had positive economic effects. For the cost-benefit analysis, the return on investment was high and the cost-effectiveness showed levels below the threshold value for economic efficiency...

The Scheldt is a tidal river that originates in France and flows through Belgium and the Netherlands. The tides create significant flood risks in both the Flemish region in Belgium and the Netherlands. Due to sea level rise and economic development, flood risks will increase during this century....

Until recently, research on potential economic impacts of climate change and extreme weather events on transport infrastructure was scarce, but currently this area is rapidly expanding. Indeed, there is a growing international interest, including the European area, regarding the impacts of...