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Biokraftstoffen die heimische Agrarwirtschaft unterstützen. In Deutschland wird bisher insbesondere Biodiesel produziert, der vor … Mineralölsteuerbefreiung von Biokraftstoffen in Deutschland. Diese Förderung führte zu einem Ausgleich des Kostennachteils von Biokraftstoffen … einzusparen. Die Treibhausgasvermeidungskosten beim Einsatz von in Deutschland produzierten Biokraftstoffen liegen zwischen 150 …
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Locational competition is geographic competition, competition between places, between cities, between regions, and between countries. These spatial units compete with each other for the mobile production factors in factor markets, i.e., for mobile capital, for mobile technical know-how, and for...
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An Englishman once watched his first American football game. He looked intently as the team gathered into a huddle after each play. His American host asked him what he thought of the proceedings. “Not a bad sport,” remarked the visitor, “but they do seem to engage in an excessive number of...
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Es ist kaum ein Zufall, daß sich die ausländischen Direktinvestitionen in andere Regionen verlagerten, solange der Standort Lateinamerika durch Überschuldung, ökonomische Stagnation und eine allenfalls begrenzte Reformbereitschaft gekennzeichnet war. Die jüngste Wiederbelebung der...
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Enhancing the competitiveness of German firms on foreign markets and preserving the attractiveness of Germany as a business location to foreign investors are the twin objectives of foreign economic policy (FEP) in Germany. Its scope extends far beyond conventional ?border? measures to encompass...
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The question as to whether changes in the external environment may have caused the importance of key determinants of German exports to shift since the 1990s is addressed by estimating Germany's exports to EMU partner countries (intra exports) and to countries outside the euro area (extra...
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The question as to whether the globalisation-related increase in competitive pressure may have caused the importance of exchange rate pass-through and pricing-to-market for export pricing in Germany to shift since the 1990s is addressed by testing the long-run export pricing behaviour of German...
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There is ample evidence that user-producer interaction is an important factor for successful innovations. It is often claimed that user-producer interaction is most effcient in close proximity. On the other hand, innovations are a major determinant for the export performance of firms. Does this...
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We focus on one of the core competitive capabilities of modern firms: the ability to deliver successful innovations in a globalized environment. Companies literally find themselves confronted with a world of ideas. The challenge remains to decide which impulses should be on top of the list and...
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We analyze the dramatic decline of the employment share of unskilled labor in the West German economy, in particular its relation to the relatively rigid earnings structure. We find that the substitution elasticity between unskilled and skilled labor is rather low in most sectors of the economy....
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