Almost all papers on the motivation of German firms to train apprentices take as a stylised fact that training firms have to incur net costs. This notion stems practically from one source only - a series of…
Each year over three thousand R&D projects in more than two thousand firms received public grants from the German Federal Government. However, the number of subsidized firms does not reveal, whether it is always…
The recent years have been marked by massive price movements at the energy markets. Oil prices at the international energy exchanges have been rising strongly, and record high prices for oil and gas have been…
Last year's assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reemphasized the urgency of combating global warming. As the primary causes of climate change the report highlights fossil fuel use…
In this paper the accuracy of a wide range of German business cycle forecasters is assessed for the past 10 years. For this purpose, a data set is used comprising forecasts published on a monthly basis by…
Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings
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2008
In its Annual Report 2003/2004, the Council of Economic Experts launched a dual income tax as an option for a fundamental tax reform in Germany. Appointed by the German government the Council prepared a detailed…
