China has had an enormous growth of energy and electricity consumption during the last decades. This has been fuelled primarily by using domestic coal resources. Until 1997, annual construction of power stations averaged around 15 GW which was not sufficient to alleviate the demand surplus....

In this paper we use a simple bureaucracy model of fiscal illusion to analyze the impact of intergovernmental grants on the cost efficiency of local jurisdictions. We find that a higher degree of redistribution within a system of fiscal equalization or an increase in the amount of grants...

Der Transformationsprozeß der vergangenen Jahre führte in der bulgarischen Landwirtschaft zu einschneidenden Strukturveränderungen und besonders im Bereich der Milchproduktion zu drastischen Produktionsrückgängen. In diesem Zusammenhang kommen Analysen der ökonomischen Rahmenbedingungen im...

This working paper presents objectives, methods and the empirical basis of the international working group InterPIG. The members of the group act within an informal network as a base for a mutual exchange of data needed for a unique way to annually calculate the costs of pig production and to...