Plume chasing is cost-effective, measuring individual, on-road vehicular emissions. Whereas, wake-flow-generated turbulence results in intermittent, rapid pollutant dilution and substantial fluctuating concentrations right behind the vehicle being chased. The sampling duration is therefore one...

The research investigates the paradox that air pollution has a sizeable reduction although coal combustion continues to play a dominant role in the Chinese power sector. Using directly measured unit-level air pollution emissions data from Chinese thermal power plants during 2014-17, this study...

Der vorliegende Beitrag "Schätzung der Wirkung umweltpolitischer Maßnahmen im Verkehrssektor unter Nutzung der Datenbasis der Gesamtrechnung des Statistischen Bundesamtes" enthält den Endbericht eines Forschungsauftrages für das Umweltbundesamt.

"Researchers analyzing wages with the German IAB employment sample are confronted with a censoring problem: The data comes from the social security accounts. Therefore the wages are only given up to the contribution limit of the social security (A documentation of the data set is found in...

Openness appears to have a strong impact on economic growth especially in DCs, which typically exhibit a high share of physical capital in factor income and a low share of labor. In the neoclassical growth model with partial capital mobility, physical capital?s share in factor income determines...

In this paper, we perform a Tobit analysis of aid allocations, covering the period 1999-2002 and accounting for both altruistic and selfish donor motives. We first compare the allocative behavior of all bilateral donors taken together with that of multilateral aid agencies, and then look at nine...