Als Basisrohstoff für die Produktion etwa von Mikrochips, Solarzellen oder auch Batterien für Elektrofahrzeuge wird Silizium immer zentraler für zahlreiche Schlüsseltechnologien. Zwar ist das Grundmaterial Quarzsand weltweit fast unbegrenzt vorhanden. Jedoch wird Silizium regional hoch...

This paper quantifies and examines the contribution of capital, labour and multifactor productivity (MFP) to GDP growth and analyses the role of measurement of capital and labour inputs for the MFP estimate, using a comprehensive growth accounting exercise for 14 OECD countries. For most OECD...

This paper examines how measurement problems affect international comparisons of labour productivity. It suggests that these measurement problems do not significantly affect the assessment of aggregate productivity patterns in the OECD area. However, these problems do influence the more detailed...

In this paper the recently updated product market regulation (PMR) indicators are extended to a larger set of countries including several non-OECD members. It investigates regulatory patterns in this extended set of countries as compared to the OECD countries and analyses the link between...

This paper describes patterns and developments of regulation that potentially affect product market competition in OECD countries over the past decade. It uses the 2008 update and revision of the OECD indicators of product market regulation (PMR) that integrate to a larger extent than in the...

This paper examines how measurement problems affect international comparisons of labour productivity. It suggests that these measurement problems do not significantly affect the assessment of aggregate productivity patterns in the OECD area. However, these problems do influence the more detailed...

This paper examines the interaction between services and manufacturing using several types of data and shows that the distinction between manufacturing and services is blurring. Services make important contributions to production, mainly through their direct contribution to total output and...

München zählt mittlerweile zu den staureichsten Städten Europas. In der vorliegenden Studie wird empirisch untersucht, inwiefern die Bepreisung des fließenden und ruhenden Straßenverkehrs in München eine verkehrliche Wirkung entfalten kann und damit einen verkehrspolitischen Impuls zur...

Die vorliegende Studie untersucht qualitativ die Effekte der Einführung einer Anti-Stau-Gebühr innerhalb des Mittleren Rings auf den Handel und das Tourismusgewerbe in München und kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass Einzelhändler*innen, Hoteliers, Gastronom*innen und Veranstalter*innen einer...