The positive correlation of transport and economic developmet has in many cases been empirically tested and asserted. Nonetheless, a multitude of technically oriented investigations further results that…
This paper seeks to explain why more than half of the German service sector firms that introduce a product innovations do not advertise their new or markedly improved product. One part of the explanation is that…
The benchmark 'international telecommunication markets' provides key figures depicting the development and current characteristics of fixed net, mobile and broad band markets. These figures include diffusion…
We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school and several…
Numerous insurance and investment products offered by the private financial industry contain embedded investment guarantees. In these products the contributions are invested on the capital market, which involves…