The increasing use of energy from renewable sources (RE) for the generation of heat and electricity in Germany has also led to an increasingly intensive debate on its advantages and disadvantages. The discussion mostly centers on the cost effects, because beneficial effects often are harder to...

The paper presents results of the implementation of an efficiency strategy in Germany until 2020 which is focused on cost-effective measures. The efficiency measures are calculated in bottom-up models and translated into a top-down macro-economic model. The comparison to a business as usual...

Two events currently preoccupy global news: the political unrest in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear catastrophe in Japan. Both events are very different in its nature and location, but they not only affect economic developments within these...

Die Frage nach der betrieblichen Standortwahl ist ein komplexer Prozess, bei dem mehrere Faktoren wie beispielsweise das Absatzpotential, die Konkurrenzsituation oder die Erreichbarkeit im Vorfeld untersucht werden müssen. Auch die finanzielle Ausstattung der Bevölkerung, die regional sehr...

Mit dem Wachstumsbeschleunigungsgesetz vom Dezember 2009 ist ein drittes Maßnahmenpaket in die Wege geleitet worden, mit dessen Hilfe die Folgen des Wirtschaftseinbruchs im Jahr 2009 abgefedert bzw. diesen entgegen gewirkt werden sollte. Die darin enthaltenen steuerlichen Sofortmaßnahmen...

The underlying research project was sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the funding programme “Research for the Reduction of Land Consumption and for Sustainable Land Management” (REFINA). REFINA is implemented by the BMBF in cooperation with the...

The current state budget crisis in the EU and the numerous futile efforts to solve the problem has brought back the fraction of people that argument in favour of an exit strategy of Germany from the European monetary union (EMU) or even the break-up of the EMU in total. This paper investigates...