Wie hat sich der Dienstleistungssektor in Deutschland in den letzten 40 Jahren entwickelt? Welchen Stellenwert hat er heute und wo ist er im internationalen Vergleich einzuordnen? Wie bedeutsam sind die wissensintensiven Unternehmensdienstleistungen (KIBS) sowie die IKT-Dienstleistungen gemessen...

It is still an open question whether increasing life expectancy as such is causing higher health care expenditures (HCE) in a population. According to the "red herring" hypothesis, the positive correlation between age and HCE is exclusively due to the fact that mortality rises with age and a...

It is still an open question whether increasing life expectancy as such is causing higher health care expenditures (HCE). According to the "red-herring"-hypothesis, the positive correlation between age and HCE is exclusively due to the fact that mortality rises with age and a large share of HCE...

Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien haben die Produktion in Unternehmen grundlegend verändert. IT-basierte Dienstleistungen stellen ein zentrales Bindeglied zwischen vielen anderen Unternehmensprozessen dar und leisten einen wichtigen Beitrag zur betrieblichen und...

Although information and communication technologies (ICT) consume energy themselves, they are considered to have the potential to improve overall energy efficiency within economic sectors. While previous empirical evidence is based on aggregated data, this is the first large-scale empirical...