Inzwischen liegen fünf Studien zu den volkswirtschaftlichen Wirkungen der Fußball- WM vor. Naturgemäß behandeln alle nur Teilaspekte, da die gesamte ökonomische Bedeutung des Sportereignisses mit seiner Vielzahl von Wechselwirkungen nicht quantifizierbar ist. Überhaupt nicht messbar sind...

The HIV/AIDS disease represent a priority for all health authorities in all countries and it also represents serious added socioeconomic problems for societies over the world. The aim of this paper is to analize the economic impact associated to the HIV/AIDS in an European context. We conducted...

We have combined a simple demographic model and the 58 sector econometric simulation and forecasting model INFORGE (Interindustry Forecasting Germany) which has been successfully used in different areas, e.g. modelling the effects of CO2 taxes and the liberalisation of the IT market on the...

This paper analyzes in how far immigration affects firm formation at the regional level. For this purpose, we exploit a placement policy in Germany in the 1990s for immigrants of German origin from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Our panel regressions suggest that immigration had a...