Our report sets out a framework for delivering new and renovatedhousing in an integrated and sustainable way. Volume one presentsour framework; volume two explores the six elements of theframework in more detail; and volume three brings togethersupporting documentation gathered during the...

Vor dem Hintergrund ambitionierter Klimaschutzziele im Spannungsfeld des Zieldrei-ecks Versorgungssicherheit, Wirtschaftlichkeit und Umweltverträglichkeit gewinnt eine dezentrale Energieversorgung und eine Anpassung der Netzinfrastruktur zu intelligen-ten Energienetzen zunehmend an Bedeutung....

Europe is a continent of cities with a remarkable history of cultural inspiration, wealth creation, social and politicaldynamism. But in the late-20th century, many former industrial cities entered a period of steep decline, losingmost of their manufacturing jobs and many of their economic...

When managing information technology (IT) infrastructure investments, companiestraditionally try to evaluate the monetary costs and benefits of this information system(IS) or seek to implement prudent IT governance structures. However, when collective,cooperation-specific investments in...

Few micro…nance-funded businesses grow beyond subsistence entrepreneur-ship. This paper considers one possible explanation: that the structure ofexisting micro…nance contracts may discourage risky but high-expected returninvestments. To explore this possibility, I develop a theory that uni…es...

This paper investigates the relationship between inflation uncertainty and the investmentdecisions of small, micro…finance-funded …firms in the Dominican Republic. An extensive literature documents the array of opposing factors linking inflation uncertainty and investment;ultimately this...

Buyer-Seller networks are pervasive in developing economies yet remain relatively under-studied. Using primary data on contracts between the largest tractor assembler in Pakistanand its suppliers we …find large variations in prices and quantities across suppliers of the sameproduct....

We show that the effect of eviction threats on unobservable investment effort can be positive. Wedemonstrate this apparently counter-intuitive result in a model of tenancy where investment by atenant in the current period raises the chances of doing well in the next period, and...

This paper focuses on qualitative aspects of financing, investment and output decisions offirms. Such dimensions can be modeled econometrically by means of dynamic limited dependent variables models. We develop a partial equilibrium dynamic stochastic programmingproblem of investment, dividend...