The share of immobile persons, i.e. persons not leaving their homes on a given reporting day, is both a central result and a prime quality indicator of a travel diary survey. The wide range of values for the share of immobiles reported in travel diary and time budget survey literature has...

L’impact négatif de la distance sur le commerce bilatéral constitue l’un des résultats empiriques les plus robustes en économie internationale. Bien que connu, ce résultat n’a cependant fait l’objet d’aucune analyse systématique. Les auteurs examinent 1 467 effets distance...

Im Rahmen der vorliegenden Arbeit werden die Effekte von Innovationen auf die Beschäftigung innovierender Unternehmen untersucht. Es wird der Frage nachgegangen, inwiefern insbesondere Produkt- und Prozessinnovationen die Zahl der Mitarbeiter erhöhen bzw. diese verringern. Auf der...

This text reviews the assessments of marginal abatement costs of methane and nitrous oxide emissions from agriculture. We use agricultural emissions and the corresponding prices collected from 21 studies that have assessed abatement potentials and costs using various modeling approaches and...

This paper uses a vote-counting procedure to estimate the probability density function of the total economic impact as a parabolic function of global warming. There is a wide range of uncertainty about the impact of climate change up to 3°C, and the information becomes progressively more...

In this paper, we report a replication of Engel’s (Exp. Econ. 14(4):583–610, <CitationRef CitationID="CR10">2011</CitationRef>) meta-study of dictator game experiments. We find Engel’s meta-study of dictator game experiments to be robust, with one important exception: the coding of the take-option (List in J. Polit. Econ....</citationref>

This article presents a meta-analysis on brand personality (BP) by investigating the antecedents and consequences of the BP dimensions of sincerity, excitement, competence, sophistication, and ruggedness, as suggested by Aaker (Journal of Marketing Research 34:347–356, <CitationRef CitationID="CR1">1997</CitationRef>). The authors...</citationref>