While there are numerous studies on the measurement of the technical or cost efficiency of local governments, the analysis of the main drivers of this efficiency has attracted far less attention in this…

Social software serves in particular the communication, cooperation and information sharing between individuals and includes applications like blogs, wikis or online communities. Common to all of these…

This paper investigates price formation in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). The aim of the paper is to know what is happening to the European Union Allowance (EUA) price, when new…

Cross-section inequality increased in the last decade in Germany. Wage mobility can at least partly offset the increase in cross-section inequality and thus leads to a better understanding of inequality and…

This paper applies the concept of damage coefficients introduced in Houba and Kremers (2008) to provide an estimate of the cost of climate change - in particular the cost of changes in mean regional…

Integrated assessment models lack a microeconomic foundation in modelling environmental damages to the economy. To overcome this, damage coefficients are incorporated in standard microeconomic models. Firms…

Deutsches Transportgewerbe hat die konjunkturelle Talsohle erreicht

Das deutsche Transportgewerbe scheint im zweiten Quartal 2009 die konjunkturelle Talsohle erreicht zu haben. Für das zweite Halbjahr 2009…

• Economic expectations for the CEE region improve considerably
• Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia: Optimism about business prospects
• Hungary, Romania, and Croatia: Clearly improved economic outlook
• Special…

• Economic Expectations Improve Again
• Eurozone: Optimism Over the economy and Rising Interest Rate Expectations
• USA: Analysts Are Upbeat
• Great Britain: Specialists Expect no Change in Benchmark Rate
• Japan: Brightening…