This paper analyzes the determinants of R&D co-operation among German manufacturing firms. Using firm level data from the Third Community Innovation Survey from Germany, we focus on the role of spillovers in explaining R&D cooperation. We also investigate firms' decisions to cooperate with...

There appears to be an ambivalent dimension in innovation strategies: timing. When is an innovation ready for the market or when is the market ready for the innovation? This paper empirically investigates the determinants of a firm’s decision to become a first mover or a follower in innovation...

This paper examines the employment effects of a revenue-neutral cut in the social security contribution rate in Germany by running policy simulations in four different types of macroeconomic models. Two models are based on time-series data where the labor market is modeled basically demand...

The specification of the world closure, i.e. the way of closing the domestic economy model by incorporating the external sector, is a crucial component for those models in which production and consumption is not specified endogenously for all countries. This paper looks explicitly at the...

The objective of this paper is to present different equity rules that can be applied to the initial allocation of greenhouse gas entitlements and to analyse the potential impacts of these rules EU-wide as well as on the level of member states. The methodological framework used in the empirical...

In this paper, a practicable scheme of SO2-emission permits for European power producers is developed. Background is the second UN-ECE Sulphur Protocol from 1994 (Protocol of Oslo). After discussing some theoretical models of spatially differentiated permit schemes, evaluating the U.S. Acid Rain...

Zur Bekämpfung des sauren Regens wurden bisher national wie international überwiegend ordnungsrechtliche Instrumente eingesetzt. Im Rahmen der Umsetzung des Osloer Protokolls von 1994 zur europaweiten Reduktion von Schwefelemissionen bietet sich erstmals die Chance zum Einsatz ökonomisch...

Die ökonomisch-ökologische Analyse marktwirtschaftlicher Instrumentarien zur Umsetzung umweltpolitischer Zielvorgaben in der EU ist das Thema dieses Bandes. Zentrale Fragen, die in diesem Zusammenhang bearbeitet werden lauten: i) Wie lassen sich die bei internationalen Abkommen eingegangenen...