In einem von der Bundesregierung in Auftrag gegebenen Forschungsprojekt über die Auswirkungen der geänderten gesetzlichen Ladenschlußzeiten am 1. November 1996 wird festgestellt, daß die zeitliche Beschränkung der Öffnungsaktivitäten des Einzelhandels nicht mehr den Anforderungen, die von...

Schumpeter's concept of creative destruction as the engine of capitalist development is well-known. However, that the destructive part of creative destruction is a social cost and therefore biases our estimate of the impact of the innovation on NNP and on welfare is hardly acknowledged, with the...

We theoretically and numerically analyse the impacts for a small, open country with carbon abatement ambitions of joining a coalition with allowance trading. Besides welfare impacts for both the coalition and the small, open economy joining the coalition, we scrutinise how the studied policy...

We estimate the economic impact of climate change by exploiting variation in local temperature across suppliers of the same client. We find that suppliers experiencing a 1°C increase in average daily temperature decrease their sales by 2%. The effect is more pronounced among suppliers in...