In recent years, the substantial expansion in containerisation, the advent of megacarriers, the race for ever larger container-ships and higher-volume flows, have revolutionised intercontinental transport. These changes have entailed considerable reductions in maritime transport costs, which has...

Transport policy may well have reached a turning point. It will not be possible to manage projected traffic growth using traditional methods that concentrate on increasing infrastructure capacity. New incentives, new pricing, and new instruments to better manage investment and demand are all...

Europe’s banking system is weighed down by high levels of non-performing loans (NPLs), which are holding down credit growth and economic activity. This discussion note uses a new survey of European country authorities and banks to examine the structural obstacles that discourage banks from...

Die Arbeit untersucht den Stromkonsum der europäischen Haushalte. Erstmalig werden die Auswirkungen von verschiedenen Instrumenten zur Beeinflussung des Stromkonsums auf die Ziele einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung systematisch aus der Perspektive der Nachhaltigen Ökonomie untersucht. Die...

SMEs are the backbone of the European economy, but in regional and local labour market monitoring approaches their specificities are not yet well considered. As SMEs have to compete with larger companies for human resources, they develop creative strategies for recruiting and retaining...

Meeting Europe's 2030 climate targets will require massive clean-electricity investment. To facilitate these investments, state-backed de-risking schemes such as contracts for difference (CfDs) are needed. Their role in supporting renewables has been consolidated by the European Union's recently...

Photovoltaikunternehmen unterliegen internationalem Wettbewerbsdruck um technologisches Wissen. Die Service-dominante Logik (SDL) im Marketing betrachtet Wissen als Quelle von Wettbewerbsvorteilen; Akteure erlangen demnach Wissen durch Ressourcenintegration in Value Netzwerken. Allerdings...