European Union energy sources are supposed to be sufficient to cover expected growth of natural gas demand for the coming decades, but there are not enough opportunities/infrastructure to transport these volumes of gas to European markets. Arbitrary interruptions of Russia gas deliveries towards...

This paper studies the macroeconomic effects of a permanent increase in foreign aid in a model that takes into account environmental quality. We develop a dynamic equilibrium model in which both public investment in infrastructure and environmental protection can be financed using domestic...

Aktuelle Zahlen von EUROSTAT zeigen, dass die ostdeutschen Bundesländer in der kommenden EU-Strukturfondsförderperiode 2014 bis 2020 ihren Status als EU-Höchstfördergebiete verlieren werden. Der Direktionsbezirk Leipzig könnte sogar jegliche Förderberechtigung verlieren, da das...

Im Zeitraum 1992 bis 2005 waren die öffentlichen nfrastrukturinvestitionen in Deutschland rückläufig, danach stiegen sie wieder leicht an. Es stellt sich daher die Frage, ob es sich bei dem Rückgang um eine für entwickelte Volkswirtschaften wie Deutschland typische und deshalb...

Urban peripheries in many developing countries lack basic local public goods like street pavement, water, sewerage and electricity. We design an experiment of street pavement provision in a Mexican urban area and estimate impacts on a set of indicators obtained from a household survey. Our...

This paper empirically analyzes how political factors affect the deployment of renewable energy (RE) sources and compares it to other economic, energy and environmental drivers that have received greater attention in the literature so far. The sample encompasses the EU countries bound to attain...

As the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) reach their end date in 2015, negotiations are ramping up at the United Nations for the establishment of a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs, to be announced in September this year, will replace the MDGs and serve as a universal...

Industrial parks had an explosive development all over the world especially in the last five decades but in Romania their history is much recent. At the beginning, this paper presents the evolution and the present state of the Romanian industrial park projects and continues by reviewing a few of...

Die nachfolgende Analyse zeigt, in welchem Sinne und in welchen Bereichen die Investitionsentwicklung in Deutschland als „schwach“ eingestuft werden kann. Dabei werden die unterschiedlichen Trends auf verschiedenen staatlichen Ebenen und in einzelnen Wirtschaftsbereichen näher...

This paper analyzes the relationship between tax evasion and the two main policy instruments affecting tax compliance, namely, the announced tax rate and the share of tax revenues allocated to tax monitoring mechanisms. For doing so, we adopt a simple one-sector endogenous growth model modified...