Latin America`s enormous endowment of natural resources impacts many countries of the region. Economic liberalization in several countries was followed by rapid growth of foreign investment and exports of natural resource-intensive products. Growth of labor-intensive manufacturing industries was...

Das energie- und klimapolitische Maßnahmenpaket der EU-Kommission vom 23.Januar 2008 ist in seinen Grundzügen in das Modell GINFORS eingesetzt worden. Mit GINFORS sind im Jahr 2007 verschiedene Varianten zu Erreichung der EU-Klimaziele im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und...

Zusammenfassung Reiseentscheidungen werden von klimatischen Bedingungen und Wetterverhältnissen in der Destination abhängig gemacht. Das Wetter im Urlaub hat einen großen Einfluss auf das Urlaubserlebnis. Dieser Artikel untersucht, ob schlechtes Wetter zu einer höheren Reklamations-rate bei...

This study uses the hedonic approach to measure the amenity value of climate in Germany. Unlike in earlier research separate hedonic wage and house price regressions are estimated for relatively small geographic areas and formal tests undertaken to determine whether the coefficients describing...

Countries with the highest labor productivity overwhelmingly lie in the world's temperate climatic zones far away from the equator. The question we address is whether climatic conditions as measured by distance from the equator remain correlated with labor productivity after other variables are...

Empirical evidence suggests that regional disparities in incomes are often very high, that these disparities do not necessarily disappear as economies grow and that these disparities are itself an important driver of growth. We use a novel approach based on multilevel modeling to decompose the...

The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in the economic literature. Moreover, while much is known about 19th century black legal and material conditions, less is known about how 19th century institutional arrangements were related to black stature....

The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in the economic literature. While much is known about 19th century black legal and material conditions, less is known about how 19th century biological conditions were related to the physical environment and...

The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in the economic literature, and heights are related with vitamin D. Although African-Americans and whites have the genetic ability to reach similar terminal statures, 19th century blacks were consistently shorter...