This volume was prepared by Luise Röpke while she was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes three self-contained chapters about aspects of the integration of new...

Das zunehmende Interesse an und die steigende Bedeutung von Klimawandel und Umweltschutz waren Auslöser sowohl sozialer Veränderungen als auch politischer Massnahmen. Die daraus resultierenden Veränderungen im Verbraucherverhalten und neue Richtlinien verändern die institutionellen...

This volume was prepared by Luise Röpke while she was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes three self-contained chapters about aspects of the integration of new...

This thesis employs an international comparative perspective to empirically analyse the Czech energy transition between 1830 and 2010. It addresses the utilization of energy in shaping modern economic growth through structural and technological change and the implications of those changes on...