Dieser Beitrag geht der Frage nach, ob es aus ökonomischer Sicht zu rechtfertigen ist, dass in Deutschland der allgemeine Steuerzahler die Kosten für die an Spieltagen im Profifußball anfallenden Polizeieinsätze finanziert. Diese Frage wird zwar in Politik und Öffentlichkeit sowie im...

We analyze whether eco-innovation has a positive or negative influence on the business performance of companies and, through the complementarity approach, whether the joint implementation of R&D subsidy and R&D cooperation increases or decreases the sum of their respective individual impacts on...

Die Corona-Pandemie, insbesondere aber auch die Maßnahmen zu ihrer Eindämmung, führen aktuell zu einer schweren volkswirtschaftlichen Krise. Um diese zu bewältigen, wird von vielen Seiten staatliche Hilfe und Unterstützung erwartet. Zahlreiche Rettungs- und Ausgabenprogramme wurden...

The author reviews recent studies that investigate how social status concerns influence individual preferences for redistribution and impact the design of optimal tax policies. He focuses on two aspects: the relevant dimension over which relative concerns are defined and the different...

CO2 -Emissionen aus Gebäudebrand und dem Verkehr stehen im Mittelpunkt der umweltpolitischen Debatte: Keine neuen Verbrennerfahrzeuge ab 2035, Heizen zumindest zu 65% aus regenerativen Energiequellen, Zertifikatehandel auf Gebäudebrand und Verkehr ausdehnen, Tempolimit auf Autobahnen,...

This paper focuses on cybersecurity knowledge, claiming that this knowledge may have a value of its own, and suggests a market mechanism to foster the creation of this kind of value. The goal is to elaborate the value of cybersecurity knowledge and propose a semantic approach with an example...

We experimentally study competitive markets with socially responsible production. Our main focus is on the producers' decision whether or not to reveal the degree of social responsibility of their product. Compared to two benchmark cases where either full transparency is enforced or no...

Joint production is a term with a long history in economics, encompassing a variety of ubiquitous production types that usually generate both main products as well as desirable and undesirable byproducts. However, studies in economic history show that important phenomena subsumed under this term...

The question of how to properly model production systems with unintended outputs has proven both controversial and of particular interest to the productivity and efficiency community. The paper explains why some of the arguments put forward in these controversies are hardly convincing for...