The study was intended to shed light from a regulatory standpoint on the role of foreign policy instruments in affecting environmental policy changes in other countries. The analysis resulted in a catalog of…
The federal governmant in its energy policy faces constraints both with respect to party interests, lobby groups and media agendas on the national level as well as regarding international climate policy…
The goal of the main project was to develop a fuel cell benchmarking procedure with which to evaluate the energy efficiency of whole areas. With respect to buildings, to date, the structure itself had been central…
To fight long-term unemployment in Germany, a newpromotional program by the German Federal government startedin October 1994 - "Guidelines for the promotion ofreintegrating the hard-to-place unemployed by means of…
The project was conducted with the goal of preparing a valid policy outline capable of producing consensus with respect to the promotion of renewables in the energy industry. A bidding model based on the…
The profitability of vocational and further training activities differs with respect to the individual, firms’ and the economy’s point of view. These differences explain some of the observed heterogeneity of…
The objective of the project is the development of a method for the assessment of the quality of different transportation systems and service providers in Europe. The scope of the method for both the…
The economic structural change taking place throughout the world today is progressively driven by the “intensification of knowledge”. Knowledge accumulation and an economy’s capability to learn, to generate and to…
Technological progress in western economies has contributed to an immense rise in productivity, incomes and goods available over the last hundred years. Though not to the same extent as productivity and wages,…
The study provides theoretically and empirically well founded assessments of the employment effects of environmental innovations, which are as such closely tied to the increased adoption of integrated…