The EURO-SOLAR Programme (Financing Agreement 2006/17-223) was designed in 2006 and implemented in eight Latin American countries as from 2007, focusing its activities in the poorest countries of the subcontinent (Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay)....

Rapid growth in fuel ethanol production in the U.S. will create pressure on infrastructure both in the near term and the longer term. Currently the vast majority of fuel ethanol produced is grain based with corn based feedstocks dwarfing the quantity of all other grain feedstocks. In the future...

Die Investitionen in Ostdeutschland entwickelten sich u.a. aufgrund der vielfältigen Fördermaßnahmen von Anfang an wesentlich dynamischer als in den alten Bundesländern. 1994 erreichten die gesamtwirtschaftliche Investitionsquote in Westdeutschland 20 %, in den neuen Ländern aber 60 %. Je...

Die Wehrgüterproduktion der DDR verfügte - im Gegensatz zur UdSSR und zur CSSR - nur über geringe Kapazitäten zur Herstellung militärischer Großtechnik.Sie konzentrierte sich vielmehr auf deren Instandsetzung und seit den siebziger Jahren auf militärische Forschung und Entwicklung. Diese...

We work with a panel of bilateral trade flows from 1988 to 2002, exploring the influence of infrastructure, institutional quality, colonial and geographic context, and trade preferences on the pattern of bilateral trade. We are interested in threshold effects, and so emphasize those cases where...

Our research, based on the ZEW-Foundation Panel East, examines whether high-tech start-ups are mainly founded in scientific and infrastructural well suited regions or not. Estimation results on the level of postcode areas confirm the hypothesis that specific human capital, knowledge spillovers...

In this paper we analyze the impact of service station availability on the demand for alternative-fuel vehicles and the consumers' willingness to pay for an enlarged fueling infrastructure. We examine a stated preferences choice experiment conducted as a CAPI survey with about 600 interviews of...