The impact of environmental regulation on technology diffusion and innovations is studied using a unique data set of German residential buildings. We analyze how energy efficiency regulations, in terms of minimum standards, affects energy-use in newly constructed buildings and how it induces...

While there has been some debate over the usefulness of monetary aggregates, there has been surprisingly little discussion of the actual implications for liquidity. In this paper, we provide an approximation of the liquidity development in six Euro area countries from 2003 to 2012. We show that...

Mit Beiträgen von: Dieter Bender, Tobias Bidlingmaier; Carsten Eckel, Makram El-Shagi; Michael Frenkel, Hans-Rimbert Hemmer, Andreas Irmen; Ulf von Kalckreuth, Ralf Krüger, Helga Luckenbach; Ronald McKinnon; Edmund S. Phelps; Stefan Reitz, Gerhard Rübel; Karlhans Sauernheimer; Jennifer Seith;...

The impact of environmental regulation on technology diffusion and innovations is studied using a unique data set of German residential buildings. We analyze how energy efficiency regulations, in terms of minimum standards, affects energy-use in newly constructed buildings and how it induces...