This study analyzes the economic consequences of power rationing at the level of German counties. Based on a common production function approach, it estimates the costs of power outages for firms and households in all counties and uses these estimates to derive hypothetical rationing plans for...

Der anhaltende Klimawandel, die Folgen der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise und die aktuellen Bestrebungen in Deutschland, nach der Havarie des Atomkraftwerks Fukushima I eine zügige Wende hin zu einer nachhaltigen Energieversorgung zu vollziehen, haben die öffentliche Diskussion um Quellen,...

Das Konzept der Verwirklichungschancen (Capabilities) des Ökonomienobelpreisträgers Amartya Sen bildet eine neue Grundlage der deutschen Armuts- und Reichtumsberichterstattung. Dieser Sammelband zum Capability-Ansatz diskutiert konzeptionelle Grundlagen sowie mögliche Anwendungen auf Armuts-...

The empirical sub-sections of this article have shown that the both production and technology oriented clusters are a very diverse and regionally embedded phenomenon. Within this context, the observed diversity of political strategies and support measures whose ultimate goal is to 'generate...

We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more...