Das Erkenntnisinteresse dieser Arbeit gilt der Notwendigkeit und Geeignetheit der Vergabe von Finanzzuweisungen zwischen den Mitgliedstaaten der Europäischen Union. Es wird der Frage nachgegangen, welche Wohlfahrtseffekte durch ein europäisches Finanzausgleichsystem ausgelöst werden. Da der...

This companion paper to Chatelain and Ralf (2012), 'Spurious regressions with near-multicollinearity' put their results into the contexts of the history of statistics, of the current publication bias in applied sciences and of the substantive versus statistical significance debate. This article...

The authors consider a symmetric model composed of two countries and a firm in each country. Firms produce the same good by means of a polluting technology which uses fossil energy. However, these firms can adopt clean technology which uses renewable energy, having lower costs. Interestingly,...