In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden die einzelbetrieblichen Effekte zweier agrarpolitischer Programme (Agrarumweltmaßnahmen, Ausgleichszulage für benachteiligte Gebiete) auf den betrieblichen Faktoreinsatz (Boden, Arbeit, Kapital, Viehbesatz, Viehbesatzdichte, Ausgaben für Pflanzenschutz- und...

This study was prepared by Andreas Kuhlmann, while he was working with the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in September 2006 and was accepted as a Ph.D. thesis by the Economics Department of the University of Munich. The subject of this study is the analysis of network...

Twenty years have passed since Freeman and Medoff's What Do Unions Do? This essay assesses their analysis of how unions in the U.S. private sector affect economic performance - productivity, profitability, investment, and growth. Freeman and Medoff are clearly correct that union productivity...